Skrou You Simmons!??? | The Meister’s Metal Mayhem Metal Mayhem Friday, October 10th, 2014 | Toronto, Canada By Rich “The Meister” Dillon I have to admit that Gene Simmons is a promotional master. Perhaps he meant his recent words concerning the death of rock and ro...
3.5rr user rating Honoring a Tricycle Metal Mayhem By Rich “The Meister” Dillon In a big day for Canadian Heavy Metal fans, The KiLLeR DWaRfS iconic tricycle had its day in the spotlight on Friday September 19, 2014 in the event that had been postponed fro...
3.2rr user rating The Oddities of The Meister’s I-Pod Metal Mayhem 1 Comment By Rich “The Meister” Dillon In an examination of my current iPod style MP3 playlist, I thought that I would package together a few of the recently issued perhaps lesser known albums that are cur...
2.7 Swedish Meister! Blogs, Metal Mayhem By Rich "The Meister" Dillon I, The Meister, have recently returned to Canada after my trek to Scandinavian Sweden for my second Sweden Rock Festival. Holding firm to the belief that we here in North America j...
3.6 The Meister at M3 Festival Blogs, Metal Mayhem BY: RICH (THE MEISTER) DILLON In continuing my rock and roll adventures, I recently had the wonderful experience of my first M3 Festival. M3 is a two day festival taking place at the Merriweather Post Pavili...
The Meister’s Metal Mayhem – Blog #27 – MORC 2014 Part 2 (Including Meister’s “Top Five Bands of the Cruise”) Blogs, Metal Mayhem By Rich "The Meister" Dillon Here is part #2 of my experiences aboard the Monsters of Rock Cruise 2014: Escape to Monster Island with my brief reviews of the many bands that I was fortunate enough to witness p...
The Meister’s Metal Mayhem Blog #26 ~ Monsters of Rock Cruise Review Blogs, Metal Mayhem by Rich "The Meister" Dillon Well folks, the intrepid Meister has once again been traveling to some awesome rock shows. I have recently had the opportunity to experience my first M3 Festival in Marylan...
Primal Fear Invades Toronto Blogs, Metal Mayhem 2 Comments By: Rich (The Meister) Dillon On May 3, the Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto was invaded by Germans with the help of local promotion company Inertia Entertainment. But before the Germans assaulted the stage, ...
The Meister’s Metal Mayhem Blog #25 – MORC (The Voyages) Blogs, Metal Mayhem Rich "The Meister" Dillion Ok Rock Rag-ers, in keeping with last week’s theme, The Meister is back again counting down the few days remaining until I embark on The Monsters of Rock Cruise for my third succe...
The Meister’s Metal Mayhem Blog #24- Monster’s of Rock Cruise “MORC” Metal Mayhem Hello out there to all the readers of The Rock Rag website. For those that don’t know me I’m The Meister and I have been fortunate enough to be part of The Rock Rag team since its inception back in August...
House of Lords: Now Serving “Precious Metal” – The Meister’s Metal Mayhem Blog #23 Blogs, Metal Mayhem Blog 23 By The Meister Remember House of Lords? The very first band that KISS mogul Gene Simmons signed to his upstart label back in 1988, House of Lords, has returned in 2014. Three years after they delivere...
Bridging the Gap with Michael Schenker in Toronto, Canada ~ Blog 22 Blogs, Metal Mayhem German guitar heavyweight Michael Schenker brought his Bridge the Gap tour into Toronto for two back to back nights of blistering guitar shredding featuring some great local talents. Saturday January 18, 2014...
Ron Keel the Metal Cowboy ~ Blog 21 from The Meister Metal Mayhem Ron Keel is back, blending his country and metal influences together for his latest release, entitled Metal Cowboy. While Ron first came to our attention in the band Steeler (which produced one self-titled al...
Keeping It Metal with Mortal Fear Blogs, Metal Mayhem TORONTO, CANADA—The metal scene here is alive and well, and chock full of great metal bands trying to claw their way into worldwide recognition. One such band is Mortal Fear. With a mission statement of “...
Coney Hatch Returns to Toronto Blogs, Metal Mayhem TORONTO, CANADA, Dec. 13—Canadian hard rockers Coney Hatch formed in Toronto, in the early 80s, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Carl Dixon, guitarist Steve Shelski, vocalist/bassist Andy Curran and...
Halestorm Hails Toronto Blogs, Metal Mayhem Blog by "The Meister" Some Photos are from Halestorm's Performance at Aftershock 2013 by Kimberly Annette TORONTO, Canada, Dec. 3—Grammy Award-winning band Halestorm’s latest tour rolled into Toronto’s T...
Shock Are Denied No More Metal Mayhem TORONTO, Canada—Way up in the Great White North of Canada, in the nation’s capital city of Ottawa, a metal band once dubbed “one of the best unsigned bands” and “one of the best metal bands ne...
Motörhead’s Aftershock Leaves Tremors Blogs, Metal Mayhem While in the tattoo chair a few weeks ago, having work done on my in-progress full-sleeve tattoo, which depicts a guitar case with the logos of 30 of my favorite bands and inspirations, I was watching the 199...
Livin’ Fast and Dyin’ Loud—A Beasto Blanco Album Review Blogs, Metal Mayhem “Keep it in the family” is a phrase that bassist Chuck Garric understands. The 12-year Alice Cooper band member released his latest project, Beasto Blanco’s Live Fast Die Loud, on Rat Pak Records on Octob...
Stung by the Killer Bee Blogs, Metal Mayhem The Meister TORONTO, Canada—The Swedish/Canadian bassist (“Well, Swedish is the minority now”) Anders Rönnblom jokes from his home in Sweden. His band Killer Bee has recently unleashed a new album entit...