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A Legend Is Gone – R.I.P Lemmy Kilmister

The badass in heavy metal, founding member and frontman of Motorhead- Lemmy Kilmister, passed away today. He was 70 years old.

In a statement posted to Facebook, Motörhead wrote, “There is no easy way to say this… our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from the Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family. We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words. We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please… play Motörhead loud.”

Apart from cancer, Lemmy had been suffering from a number of other health issues, including hematoma, which had caused the band to cancel a number of performances in recent years. The team at Headbangers India themselves saw Lemmy walk away from the stage at a festival, unable to continue his performance. Quite unlike the badass, but this was just one more hiccup in his career, which kept going strong till the very end.

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Lemmy has been the founding member, vocalist, bassist and songwriter of Motörhead since 1975. The legendary band has released over 20 studio albums with sales of more than 30 million worldwide.

In an interview with The Guardian in 2014, Lemmy had said- “Apparently I am still indestructible.” He is also quoted to have said “As long as I can walk the few yards from the back to the front of the stage without a stick, or even if I do have to use a stick,” he would continue playing music.

The heavy metal world mourns your loss, Lemmy.

INNER SANCTUM announce all-star guest appearances on ‘Legions Awake’

Bangalore’s Inner Sanctum are really compensating well for the past few years of musical silence. After releasing what was probably the best lyrics video ever made for an Indian metal band and playing at INFERNO Festival in Norway, the band have announced the following names of guest guitar players on their upcoming album Legions Awake:

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No doubt the band is going all out in creating quite a rumble before what is building up to be a very promising album. This list of star performers is definitely doing its part in upping the ante. Look out for it in late April!

NE OBLIVISCARIS to headline IIM Bangalore’s B-School of Rock 2015

Australian progressive extreme metal band Ne Obliviscaris have made their way to quite a few ‘Top 10 album’ lists in the last year. Now they’re making their way to India on January 30th. The band will headline IIM Bangalore‘s rock show B-School of Rock at their annual festival Unmaad 2015. The band grabbed attention in 2012 with their debut album ‘Portal of I‘ landing them a record deal with the esteemed French label Season of Mist Records. Their latest offering ‘Citadel‘ received a lot of critical acclaim the world over. Their live set is reputed to have a unique intensity to it with the presence of a permanent violinist in the line-up, reinforcing their eclectic songwriting. The band will be managed by Orka Networks. For more information, visit www.unmaad.com

Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert from Cynic publicly come out as gay

In an article that took many metalheads by surprise, Cynic’s Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert have now come out as gay. The information was revealed in an article in the LA Times. Masvidal never hid the fact, being very open with when a fan once asked him about his sexuality on Facebook. The two were open about their sexuality to friends and associates but have decided to go public with the news for the first time in the insightful news piece.

The article talks about how the two struggled with their identities, but Paul was the first to come out, in 1991. While on tour, he began exploring drag bars and gay nightclubs. Reinert wanted to join him but was not comfortable with it yet saying: “I knew that, secretly, I wanted to go to those clubs too,” Reinert, 42, said. “But back then, my stereotype of how to be gay was wearing dresses and tank tops. I didn’t have any masculine, metal role models who were gay.”

But Cynic being on tour as the opening act for Cannibal Corpse was not making their coming out process any easier, with the audience not exactly embracing their “anti-macho stage presence.” “That tour was really traumatic for us,” Masvidal says, recalling anti-gay epithets being yelled at them. “We were wearing Indian garb and we had a girl keyboardist, and we were playing to this Paleolithic crowd throwing bottles and yelling ‘Get off the stage…’ It was our first big tour and all we could think was, ‘We don’t belong here.'” What made things worse was then Reinert went on a date with a guy who blogged about it on his website. He says “So for years, if you typed my name into Google, the second thing that came up, after ‘Sean Reinert Drummer,’ was ‘Sean Reinert Gay.'”

The two musicians, who are now in their mid-40s, have decided to be public about it, and to show the world that gay men can play metal too. The article also states that Rienart is currently living with his longtime boyfriend. “Gay people are everywhere, doing every job, playing every kind of music and we always have been,” Reinert said. “It’s taken me years to finally be brave enough to say, ‘If you have a problem with that, then throw out our records. That’s your problem, not mine.'”

Check the source here.