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Iron Maiden top greatest album poll - Realbollywood.com News
28 May 2012 6:53 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, May 28: Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden have topped a poll for the best British album of the past 60 years with their legendry record, 'The Number of the Beast'.
The rockers beat off competition from Eighties group, which included the 'Depeche Mode's' album Violator, and 'The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to top in an HMV survey to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
Iron Maiden's 1982 album, which. »
- Lohit Reddy
Stand Back! 64 Reasons Why We Love Stevie Nicks
26 May 2012 7:49 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Stevie Nicks is many things: Goddess Of Rock, style icon, survivor, and today is her 64th Birthday. We could never hope to give her all of the proper respect she deserves, but here's a small tribute to her legacy of cryptic lyrics, ethereal stage presence, and shawls.
So many shawls ...
1. - "Landslide." The greatest song ever written. Timeless, and one of the most covered songs of all time, from The Dixie Chicks to anyone learning the guitar ... or performing drunken karaoke.
2. "Sisters Of The Moon" - Hands down the best track from Tusk, the chances that Stevie would write a song named "Sisters Of The Moon" were always pretty good.
3. "Gypsy" - One of the definitive Fleetwood Mac songs, and one of the greatest music videos ever made.
4.
5."Silver Spring" Such a beautiful song, it was originally supposed to be included on Rumours but was left off because there just »
- snicks
Download Festival 2012: 10 Reasons To Be Excited
26 May 2012 3:23 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
In just under two weeks time, the gates will open at Castle Donington to thousands of rock and metal fans making their annual pilgrimage to the Leicestershire event to be among kindred spirits in fields before their idols. With a line-up featuring powerhouse legends like Metallica, Black Sabbath, Anthrax and Rise Against set to split the skies with helicopter drum beats and blistering guitar riffs, now’s the time to get bloody excited.
So with that in mind, here are our top 10 reasons to be excited for the rock festival which in truth can claim an almost infinite number of potential highlights…
10. The Return of the D
Fresh from their new album release, and a slew of unsurprisingly poor recent films for Jack Black, Tenacious D will return to Castle Donington for what promises to be a hilarious, but no less technically impressive show. Likely to be a fan favourite, »
- Simon Gallagher
5 Things You Might Not Know About Ridley Scott's 'Alien'
25 May 2012 7:03 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The success of "Star Wars" changed everything. While "2001" had been a giant hit a decade ago, most put it down to a fluke, but George Lucas' film suddenly proved that science fiction wasn't just for B-movies, but could be a licence to print money. Every studio in town were chasing the genre, but 20th Century Fox, who had distributed "Star Wars" had a head-start: they already had another space-set script in development, "Alien," by Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Walter Hill and David Giler. They swiftly attached new helmer Ridley Scott to the project, and production got underway in the summer of 1978.
The result, released exactly two years after "Star Wars," on May 25th, 1979 (thirty-three years ago to the day) was an enduring classic, which serves as a high watermark of the both the sci-fi and horror genres, and launched Scott's career. Next week, the director will return to where »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Listen Now: A GeekCast Radio Network Update
24 May 2012 1:00 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Welcome back to our weekly look at the new podcasts available at our “partners in podcast crime” the GeekCast Radio Network. As usual here’s our weekly look at the podcasts from Gcrn, This Week in Geek and the latest toy review videos from Baltmatrix, with descriptions and links to each and every podcast for your audio/visual pleasure!
Gcr – Episode 34 – Music Spotlight – One Hit Wonders
GeekCast Radio Episode 34 is filled with wonders! One Hit Wonders that is! Join TFG1Mike and Optibotimus as they explore what a one hit wonder is, and we also talk about the one hit wonders we love listening to.
Gcr – Special Episode – Heavy Metal
Metal Mania has taken over! Join Music’s Mr. Neil, TFG1Mike, and Chuckdawg1999, as they talk all things metal in music.
M.A.S.K.E.D. M.A.Y.H.E.M. – Episode 05
In Episode 05 we find out »
- Phil
Dcc 2012: James Marsters Will Return To Narrate Jim Butcher Series
23 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Fans of James Marsters and Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files, rejoice! Confirmed at this past weekend’s Dallas Comic Con, James Marsters will indeed return to lend his voice for the audio book for Cold Days, the next book of the Dresden series coming out in this fall.
Marsters had narrated the audio books for the entire fourteen-book-and-counting Dresden series except for the latest one, Ghost Story. A fan asked Marsters at the Q&A session why and this was his response:
“Sorry, sorry, guys. When they first called me, I was doing a piece for French television for the series called Metal Hurlant [Chronicles] which is the comic book that gave rise to Heavy Metal, a really cool movie in the 80’s. Really dark, kinda a modern Twilight Zone.
So I was in Brussels filming that so they said that they would reschedule and when they called back a »
- Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
'Sin City 2' has an official release date...and a poster!
17 May 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Dimension Films announced today that the long-promised sequel to Sin City will hit theaters in October 4, 2013, roughly eight and a half years after Robert Rodriguez started promising everyone a sequel to Sin City. The film is titled Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and will reunite Rodriguez with co-director Frank Miller. The press release only confirms two returning cast members: Mickey Rourke as lovable Cro-Magnon sociopath Marv, and Jessica Alba as your dancing Jessica Alba screensaver. But the studio promises “the remaining cast will be announced shortly with some huge names expected.”
The original Dame to Kill For graphic »
- Darren Franich
Blu-ray Review: Demons 1 & 2 Steelbook (Arrow Video)
14 May 2012 7:35 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Demons. In 1985, Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava put together what is probably the greatest of all Heavy Metal horror films, Demons. Sure, other films have focused more on the music, and there are no musicians or bands in Demons, but the atmosphere, the pacing, and the attitude is clear, this is a heavy metal movie. Written by Argento and directed by Bava, the film is a blast of gooey fun that encompasses all that was great about '80s horror. There are fantastically outdated outfits, flashy music, and, best of all, plenty of practical gore and creature effects to keep the kiddies squirming in their theater seats. Demons is a classic, and if you don't agree, we can take it outside.When a young girl is »
Radio 66.6 - Weekly Music News from the Crypt: May 14th, 2012
14 May 2012 12:40 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Dethklok, Saint Vitus, Gallows, Pod, Stray from the Path, Dying Fetus, Baroness, Limp Bizkit, Van Halen and more. Don't touch that dial!
News
Versailles Records will release No More Tears: A Millennium Tribute To Ozzy Osbourne on June 5. The tribute album features appearances from past and current members of bands such as Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Dokken, Megadeth, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Spinal Tap and more.
In dumb news of the week: Limp Bizkit's new album will be titled Stampede of the Disco Elephants.
Streams
Stream Hot Water Music's new album, Exister, here. The album is out this week on Rise Records.
Stream Saint Vitus' new alum, Lillie: F-65, here. This is the doom metallers' first album in 17 years. It will be released on May 22 via Season of Mist.
Listen to a new Bullet Treatment song entitled "Insomnia" here. The track features both current and former Comeback Kid vocalists Andrew Neufeld and Scott Wade. »
- Alex DiVincenzo
Comic Review: Frankenstein Alive, Alive! #1
9 May 2012 7:39 PM, PDT | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Frankenstein Alive, Alive! #1
Idw
Story: Steve Niles
Art: Bernie Wrightson
Okay, monster kids. You may not frequent a comic shop, but here are five good reasons that you should go out of your way, take the scenic route to a store, and buy this issue.
1. It is, simply put, a gorgeous book. The weight of the paper feels good in your hands. The text begs for repeated readings. The black and white spreads will take you back to times when a grey film palate was the pinnacle of imagination and wonder. In fact, if you buy the issue digitally, you are doing yourself a disservice.
2. Steve Niles. He is king of the comic monsters, and if anyone knows Frankenstein, it’s Niles. He’s created a smorgasbord of awesomely horrific properties. Niles is also a true punk rock champion of creators and artists. He set up a donation pool for »
- Holly I.
Robert Rodriguez Shares His 'El Rey' Network Ideas
9 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
In recent months, the news has included a constant stream of Robert Rodriguez stories, with his animation studios opening one week, winning an entrepreneurship award in another week, El Mariachi being inducted into the National Film Registry late last year, Machete Kills casting announcements almost daily in prep for shooting this summer, then Sin City 2 following that, then a Heavy Metal remake and the list doesn't end until early 2014 when his new television network, El Rey, will premiere on Comcast.
But amid his busy schedule, the Troublemaker Studios co-founder was able to set aside 90 minutes of his time to talk to the next generation of innovators, like he himself was back in the early 90s and still is today. The University of Texas at Austin hosted a conversation with Rodriguez and Ut Radio-tv-Film Professor Charles Ramirez-Berg, "The Future of Latino Images in Film and Media," on May 2.
read more »
- Austin Culp
What to Buy This Week: DVD and Blu-ray releases for April 30th 2012
30 April 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Another week, another Monday. So it’s time for the rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s another packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, April 30th 2012.
Pick(S) Of The Week
Suits: Season One (DVD)
The new original series Suits delves into the fast-paced, highstakes world of a top Manhattan corporate law firm where hotshot attorney Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) makes a risky move by hiring the brilliant but unmotivated, Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), as his new associate. The only problem is he doesn’t have an actual law degree. With his encyclopedic knowledge and uncanny knack of remembering things, Mike proves to be a legal prodigy despite the absence of bonafide legal credentials. Bound by their secret, »
- Phil
Metalocalypse Director Jon Schnepp and Zenescope's Benjamin Jackendoff Talk Animating Grimm Fairy Tales
26 April 2012 11:31 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
There are a number of popular amped up fairy tale projects out there right now. One need look no further than NBC's "Grimm" or ABC's "Once Upon a Time." However, Zenescope Entertainment's comic series Grimm Fairy Tales is about to take things to a whole new level.
"Metalocalypse" director Jon Schnepp is teaming with Titmouse Animation Studio, Benjamin Jackendoff and Zenescope to create an animated project based on the long running Grimm Fairy Tales comic book series. "Ben and I had done a couple of horror shorts over the last two years," Schnepp said. "He started working for a company called Zenescope and was like, 'Yo, dude, you've gotta check out this company. I had been doing 'Metalocalypse' for eight years and wanted to do something on my own that's like a Heavy Metal movie, so I started writing this horror anthology movie. Ben was like, 'You »
- Doctor Gash
System Of A Down Recruit Deftones For Nostalgic Summer Tour
24 April 2012 10:45 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
By Zachary Swickey
It’s clear by looking at festival lineups that nostalgia is in like never before in the music scene. (Why else could Cash Money sign Limp Bizkit?) And now fans of '90s alt-metal have plenty to celebrate with System of a Down announcing a two-week summer jaunt with their old chums, the Deftones.
The two outfits first teased the new tour through the trading of tweets (above) by holding up each other’s backstage passes in photos, but now the cat is officially out of the bag with the two groups hitting the road for the first half of August.
System of a Down notably went on hiatus in 2006, but made their live return for a round of some West Coast dates last year, but this upcoming Deftones tour will mark their first stops in the states since those few shows. Soad hasn’t released any »
- John Mitchell
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The Complete First Season (2010)
21 April 2012 1:16 PM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Created by: Craig David Wallace, Charles Picco, Anthony Leo
Starring: Jason Mewes, Alex House, Maggie Castle, Bill Turnbull
Imagine, if you will, a book of awesome power. A book that will make your deepest, darkest desires come true…but at a horrifying cost. This is the Book of Pure Evil, and it's loose in Crowley High, unleashing its dark power and filling the school hallways with monsters made of human fat and flesh-eating zombie rockers. Thankfully, four teenagers stand between The Book and the end of the world as we know it. They will save our souls — whether they like it or not.
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil is presumably enjoyed most by people that love heavy metal, splatter-filled horror movies and mediocre jokes. I am not one of those people, so I don't necessarily love this show. I don't think it's terrible or as bad a show as The Big Bang Theory, »
- Andre Dumas
Interview: 'Hawken' Is Coming To Comics and Joe LeFavi Is Making That Happen
20 April 2012 8:40 AM, PDT | MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news »
Up until this point, Adhesive Games' mech combat Fps Hawken has dazzled us with its Unreal-powered visuals, realizing detailed, ravaged cityscapes. But in the months we've been teased with the playgrounds where you and your mech will be blasting enemies to bits, there haven't been all that many details about the story about the world of the game. Transmedia producer Joe LeFavi is hoping to change that with the upcoming release of an original graphic novel set in the Hawken universe from comic publisher Archaia. LeFavi, who's with transmedia company Quixotic Transmedia (the folks who try to figure out how to get movies into games, games into comics, and so on), is overseeing the production of the graphic novel which will feature multiple artists including Adhesive Games co-founder, Khang Le.
While its release is about a year out, we got a few questions over to LeFavi by e-mail recently during »
- Charles Webb
'Sin City' 2 officially underway
12 April 2012 5:24 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
After seven long years, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller announced today that a sequel to their 2005 hard-boiled noir thriller Sin City is officially underway. Titled Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, the film was developed by Miller from his graphic novel of the same name, and scripted by Miller and William Monahan (The Departed). Dimension Films will once again distribute the film.
Production is slated for this summer at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas. Casting will start next week; according to the official release, much of the film’s original cast is expected to return — though »
- Adam B. Vary
Ash Gets Animated In A Rotoscoped Evil Dead 2 Trailer
11 April 2012 1:02 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
In the "This is just plain ole' cool!" department, this wonderful rotoscoped version of the trailer for Sam Raimi's horror/comedy megaclassic Evil Dead 2 popped up on my radar today. It comes from a studio calling itself Pretend For Real, who seem to specialize in titles and characteristic gory animations. You can trust I'll be running down more info on this outfit of animators, and sharing it here. If there is more where this came from, I'll be one happy horror geek.If you are unfamiliar with the term rotoscope, it is an animation process that involves drawing over actors filmed live. Think the midnight movie classic Heavy Metal, or the work of Ralph Bakshi. Can you imagine this done in it's entirety? Chant a »
'Dancing With the Stars': Bottom two Dance Duel to start next week. Eliminated couple is....
10 April 2012 7:10 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Update: Annie’s recap is live.
Spoiler Alert: Surprising elimination tonight, rock stars. After a results show featuring performances by Kiss (it’s Heavy Metal, I mean Rock Week!) and Gotan Project, the couple shimmying out of the ballroom tonight is….
Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy.
Roshon Fagan and Chelsie Hightower joined Sherri and Val in the bottom two.
As for that bottom two Dance Duel the judges teased last week, it’ll start up next Tuesday. Just as well, because the judges would have selected Roshon to stay over Sherri anyway.
Stay tuned for my full recap later on. »
- Annie Barrett
‘Dancing With the Stars,’ Season 14, Week 4 Performances: TV Recap
9 April 2012 7:29 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
ABC “Dancing with the Stars.”
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have some advice for the Season 14 contestants of “Dancing with the Stars”: “You show us everything you’ve got, You keep on dancin’ and the room gets hot.”
The celebrities and their pros wanna rock and roll all night, and ballroom dance every day, for Rock Week. ABC’s press release promises “lots of leather and lots of fire” to accompany tangos, paso dobles, a jive and … how is »
- Lisa Reynolds
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