Metal Allegiance

Plus: Guns N’ Roses, Seth Herzog’s SWEET, Sick New World 2024, Jorja Smith, Zach Bryan, and more tour and festival news.

Bay Area thrash vets are returning to perform their classic 1988 debut in full in Oakland this weekend, and they have more reunion shows planned for after that… Also: an update to the upcoming Death Angel/Overkill tour.

From GWAR and Coven to tribute band shows and parades for dogs and humans, here are our picks for best Halloween shows, events and parties in NYC.

It’s a one-off for now, and it happens not long after Venom Inc play Psycho Las Vegas.

Metal supergroup Metal Allgiance (who now include Bumblefoot in place of Megadeth’s David Ellefson, plus members of Testament, Death Angel, and more) will play Deep Purple’s classic live album ‘Made In Tokyo’ in full in Brooklyn, ahead of an appearance at British festival Bloodstock.

words and After packing the cavernous Best Buy Theater in Times Square with the most metal heads per square foot in the world probably on September 17, heavy metal supergroup Metal Allegiance surprised the metal world by adding a last minute show on Friday September 18 at the mega tiny Saint Vitus Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn…

Metal collective Metal Allegiance is led by core members David Ellefson (Megadeth), Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater), Alex Skolnick (Testament) and Mark Menghi (of no famous band), and their new album (out today on Nuclear Blast) is loaded with stars, including Phil Anselmo (ex-Pantera), Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Randy Blythe (Lamb of God), members of Exodus, Anthrax, Guns N Roses, Dillinger Escape Plan, Death Angel and still many m…

Motorhead set sail aboard their own Motorboat cruise last month, leaving the coast of Miami on September 22 and returning on September 26. Joining the metal legends were other veterans (and newer bands) of the genre including Zakk Wylde, Testament, Anthrax, High on Fire, Down and more…