Iron Maiden

Ten Metal Bands Most Beloved By Geeks

By Adam Steininger Geeks love metal even more than they love computers on which they listen to it. They yearn for heavy metal that was forged by Orcs in the mountains of Mordor, smuggled halfway across the universe on Serenity and then discovered by Silver Surfer while scouting for delicious planet ... More >>

Metal: Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2013 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a week and a half away! Think of it as St. Louis music's own official holiday and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music have been working hard to make our cases for all 130 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year in ... More >>

Iron Maiden and Megadeth are Coming to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 8

British heavy metal legend Iron Maiden is coming to St. Louis, and bringing one of thrash's "Big Four," Megadeth, along for the ride. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater has yet to make the announcement official, but we saw it listed today on the metal news website Blabbermouth.com. We will update this po ... More >>

A Conversation With A Metal Nerd: Brian Posehn is Coming to Town This Week

In addition to an extensive acting and stand-up resume, Brian Posehn has forged a unique career path for himself by taking on projects that deal with things he truly loves. From Dungeons and Dragons to Anthrax (the band, possibly the substance as well) to Comic books, he's turned nerdiness into an ... More >>

Tony LaRussa's Wife: Huge Metalhead?

Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Elaine LaRussa. Names that come to mind when thinking of the top heavy metal babes of all time? Not exactly, but it seems the wife of the man who led this city's baseball team to two World Series championships may prefer the mosh pit over the dugout herself. See also: - The 2 ... More >>

Getting Bored and Angry at Lamb of God: Review and Photos

Lamb of God | Hatebreed | In Flames | Sylosis The Pageant November 7, 2012 Before I start trashing one of the most popular metal bands on the planet, let me offer my credentials: In 1989, I saw Sepultura at the Bridgeton Soccer club at just nine years old. I got in trouble for spray painting the S ... More >>

Metal Costume Tips and Cubs Trash Talk from the Dropkick Murphys' Matt Kelly

After sixteen years of growl, music lovers can't help but think of Dropkick Murphys when someone mentions Boston. The band with equal parts swagger and bagpipes is as much a part of the fabric of Beantown as the brownstones that dominate the city. Despite the Murphys' undying love for the Red Sox, S ... More >>

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... By Jason Roche See ... More >>

The Six Best Greatest Hits Albums

This week, RFT announces the winners of this year's Best Of St. Louis issue. To celebrate - and give a break from the local overload to ensue - here are the six best "Best Of" albums, plus a few bonus picks at the end. Let us know your favorites in the comments, and we'll put the comment in our vaul ... More >>

Ten Music Game DLC Releases That Stirred Up Controversy

It's not hyperbole to say that downloadable content sparked a huge revolution in console video gaming. Expansions prolonged replay value of many titles, especially music games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The Rock Band franchise in particular has produced an impressive amount of downloadable ... More >>

The Six Sweetest Riffs of 2011

​There's no precise way to define a sweet guitar riff, much less a criteria for such categorization. A sweet riff is, like love or God or truly excellent barbecue, something only realized upon experience. This, the second year of the second decade of the twenty first decade of the modern calen ... More >>

Juggalos and Bald Britney: The Ten Worst Music Tattoos Ever

AHHHHHH!!​The mainstream ubiquity of tattoos is nothing new, but it does make for some pretty hilarious/horrendous Google searches. We chatted with two local tattoo artists to see what regrettable tattoos St. Louisians are getting these days. Iron Age Tattoo's Joseph Reincke said nothing surp ... More >>

Tom Huck On His Roots Phrenology Cover and Motorhead

Photo by Jon Scorfina​Many artists have used the album cover as a vehicle for greater mass exposure. Robert Crumb transitioned from the obscurity of underground comics to mainstream consciousness with his cover of Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills. Derek Riggs made his mark o ... More >>

Black Fast

7 p.m. Wednesday, November 24. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, 11.5 - 11.7, 2010

Where do Iron Maiden songs and Mother Goose rhymes meet? At the Famous Fictional Verses art show, opening at Mad Art Gallery this weekend. Portraits from over 25 local artists will be on display, all inspired by the lyrics from poetry or popular music. Find details on this show and lots more in the ... More >>

Verse. Portraits. Ever.

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of August 16-22

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. COHEED & CAMBRIA---Year Of The Black Rainbow* 2. THE FORCE---Everybody Wins 3. KEM---Intimacy* 4. BLACK CROWES---Croweology* 5. SLEIGH BELLS---Treats 6. ESPARANZA SPALDING---Chamber Music Society 7. JOHN MELLENCAMP---No Better Than This 8. METRI ... More >>

New Release Highlights for August 17: Toadies, Kem, John Mellencamp, an Illinois expatriot and more.

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Iron Maiden's Final Frontier​*Iron Maiden, The The Final Frontier Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray says the new album features "straight-ahead, uptempo rock ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Chris Shiflett on His Guitar Heroes, Being a Dad and the Status of Foo Fighters

Jack Butler​ Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants -- the rootsier side project of the Foo Fighters guitarist -- will be at the Old Rock House tonight. The show's at 8 p.m. and tickets are $8. We chatted with Shiflett in this week's paper. Read on below for some outtakes in which he discusses h ... More >>

Rush Documentary Screening at Ronnies in June

If Rush's August show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater won't have enough air-drumming dudes and epic prog breakdowns for you, fear not: Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, a documentary on the band directed by the men behind Iron Maiden: Flight 666, is screening in St. Louis on June 10. Says a press ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Slutbucket, the Silver Ballroom

bukowski.net​The two of us are giggling like little girls. The drunk to our left is telling the bartender (loudly, unsolicited) how to make something called a Flaming Dr Pepper. "First you take all your flaming liquors...." "What exactly is a 'flaming liquor?'" she asks softly. "Um, cinnamon ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta

Hatebreed, with Jamey Jasta in the middle.​In this week's issue, D.X. Ferris chats with Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta, who just might be one of the nicest dudes in rock. The Connecticut metallic hardcore band plays at Pop's tonight with Born of Osiris, Unearth, Cannibal Corpse and Hate Eterna ... More >>

Ravage

8 p.m. Thursday, August 13. The Library, 706 Lafayette Avenue.

Tuesday, April 7: Calendar Pimp Suggests

  All eyes on the high schoolers of the world.According to the statistics presented in the documentary Two Million Minutes, the time elapsed between eighth grade graduation and high school graduation is two million minutes. It beggars the mind to consider that a certain panderer of calendars sp ... More >>

War at Soldiers Memorial This Weekend -- And Other Weird Band/Location Pairings...

Bad Dudes

8 p.m. Sunday, May 4. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue

The Islamic revolution, and puberty, through the 2-D eyes of Marjane Satrapi.

Persepolis

Book 'Em

Unreal relishes being among the nation's most literate and and gets close with the NuttyBuddy.

Shred Cred

You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

Evil Is as Evile Does

The Fucking Champs

9 p.m. Tuesday, May 29. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Kick out the jammies.

A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies for B-Sides, while the Downtown Trio adds jazz and pizzazz to local TV staple the Fan Show.

Still More SXSW Coverage, Part Two

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

DragonForce

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 19. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).

Bullet for My Valentine

7 p.m. Friday, August 18. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Heady Metal

In 2005, longhairs got more progressive than ever

Wheatus

Friday, December 9; The Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

B-Sides finds other Franken-guitars to match Junior Brown's creation, earns some holiday cash on eBay and discovers that Milemarker and My Chemical Romance have more in common than you'd think

Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11.

Scream to a Whisper

With City of Life, Avenged Sevenfold embraces its indoor voice

Little Drummer Girl

We chat with the lil'est Tratchenburg, sing seasonal songs and give a concept-album reading list

Don't Fret!

New Pro Arte is fingerpicking good

Devil in the Details

New books document heavy metal's ugly history

Frankie's Plan

To free man

It's a Toss-Up

Jugglers throw up for sport

Stage Fright

It takes real metal to interview W.A.S.P.'s Blackie Lawless

STORM WARNING

The Stormtroopers of Death return to set heavy metal straight