Tattooers Talking About Their Love of Pantera
January 13, 2021
Tattoo artists have been blasting Pantera in their shops for decades. We spoke with a few metal loving tattooers about the influential band.
Motörhead Tattoos for Lemmy’s Birthday
December 24, 2020
The legendary Lemmy Kilmister would have turned 75 today. We're celebrating with tattoos and some exclusive Motörhead swag.
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Motörhead Tattoos for Lemmy’s Birthday
December 24, 2020
The legendary Lemmy Kilmister would have turned 75 today. We're celebrating with tattoos and some exclusive Motörhead swag.
A Conversation with DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara
September 24, 2020
We talk face tattoos, releasing a double album in a pandemic and more in our sprawling discussion with the DevilDriver frontman.
Metallica Tattoos
August 3, 2020
It's James Hetfield's birthday, so we're celebrating Papa Het with some rad Metallica tattoos.
Talking Tattoos with Underoath
July 22, 2020
As the metalcore band gets ready for the second of three streaming concerts, they took some time to talk with us about getting inked on tour, their first tattoos and more.
The Color Morale Picks Their Favorite Band Tattoos
August 19, 2016
The Color Morale is not just an awesome band, they are awesome people. The act has a dedicated fan base. How ridiculously dedicated? There’s more than 4,600 The Color Morale…
Heavy Metal Grandpa Gets Drowning Pool Tattoo and Rocks Out With Them
August 3, 2016
John Hetlinger is not the kind of man you would expect to be fronting a heavy metal band. But there the unassuming 82-year-old was, on a festival stage screaming along…
EXCLUSIVE: Premiere of ‘Forced Perspective,’ A Doc on Derek Hess Who Worked With Pantera, Pink Floyd and Pearl Jam
April 12, 2016
While the fringe scenes had hardcore and metal musicians who voiced the ethos of the community, Derek Hess was the first artist to truly put it to paper. His iconic…
Slayer’s Gary Holt Has The World’s Most Metal Guitar
January 26, 2016
Metalheads don’t put up with posers. So when you play guitar for Slayer one imagines that you have to go out of your way to make sure that you are…
Motörhead’s Iconic Lemmy Kilmister Dies at Age 70
December 29, 2015
All of the great icons are identifiable by one name—Elvis. Jimi. Lemmy. Anyone who has ever banged their head to Motörhead more than once in their life, and we can’t…
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO – Behind the Scenes of August Burns Red’s ‘Identity’
August 18, 2015
Exclusive Video Follows the Text Mermen and metalcore make unlikely bedfellows. Thanks to a childhood spent singing along to the calypso-inspired jams in The Little Mermaid I never could have…
All Hail The Metal Chef
July 29, 2015
Photo Gallery Follows the Text John Hurkes is a triple threat: he’s the Chef de Partie at a gastro-pub in Minneapolis called the Bulldog N.E., he has killer tattoos and…
Mastodon Goes North of the Wall on ‘Game of Thrones’
June 1, 2015
Rock critics have been trying to pinpoint where exactly Mastodon’s brutal sound comes from for years to no avail, but viewers of Game of Thrones learned the secret last night. While…
James Hetfield Covers Adele with Daughter, Blue Oyster Cult with Jerry Cantrell
May 18, 2015
GALLERY OF METALLICA AND JAMES HETFIELD TATTOOS BELOW THE TEXT AND VIDEOS Last Friday, the second annual “Acoustic-4-A-Cure” event was held in San Francisco. The benefit concert was created by…