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Ghost wins Grammy for Best Metal Performance

Metal isn’t for everyone, and the reception it got at the Grammys night on the 16th of February 2016 was proof to this! Ghost won the award for Best Metal Performance for ‘Cirice’ which was received with hardly any applause, and an almost awkward silence.

Frontman Papa Emeritus made a brief acceptance speech where he said “A nightmare has just turned into a dream – thank you all for that.”

The other bands nominated in the category were Slipknot, August Burns Red, Sevendust and Lamb of God. But do metal bands really give a damn about the Grammys? Not Randy Blythe at least, who in a recent interview said – “I don’t give two flying fucks. It’ll be probably the fifth one we didn’t win. I’m not going to go to Hollywood and sit around and be excruciatingly bored while all these people with nice evening dresses clap. I don’t give a shit.”

Photo by Kevin Winter/WireImage
Photo by Kevin Winter/WireImage

Lemmy was also remembered with a tribute performance by Hollywood Vampires, with Alice CooperJoe Perry, Johnny Depp, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan. They performed Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” to an unreceptive audience.

GWAR frontman Dave Brockie dead at 50

Dave Brockie, better known to us as Oderus Urungus- the founder and lead singer of metal band GWAR, has died. His roommates found his body at his house on the evening of the 23rd of March (Sunday). Though the news was initially dismissed as a rumour, GWAR bassist Chris Bopst said- “I wish it was a joke.” “Everyone is in shock.” Brockie was 50 years old.

Vocalist Randy Blythe from Lamb of God, posted via his Instagram account: “I got a very sad call tonight from my buddy Chris Bopst, who was one of the original members of GWAR. My friend Dave Brockie, a.k.a. Oderus Urungus, the singer of GWAR, has left the building and taken off back to his home planet…”

Randy also reshared one of his old pictures of Dave kissing his birthday cake. You can check it out here.

GWAR’s latest album ‘Battle Maximus’ sold around 3,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 109 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Randy Blythe freed of charges

Randy Blythe Acquitted In Fan’s Death

Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe is a free man after being acquitted on charges of manslaughter after a fan was killed of a head injury at a concert in the Czech Republic in 2010.

Randy Blythe was acquitted by Prague’s Municipal Court on Tuesday on charges that he caused bodily harm to another person with lethal consequences, court spokesman, Marketa Puci, confirmed.

In his post on Instagram (http://instagram.com/p/WefUkBIsu7/), Blythe asked fans to “please remember the family of Daniel Nosek in your thoughts and prayers in this difficult time”.