2020 has been an atypical year for the music industry. The usual album and tour cycles have been turned on their heads. Some bands chose to hold their albums for when touring starts up again. Some bands found creative ways to release their albums, many with livestreams to go with it. Other bands took the opportunity to record and release unexpected music, and much more of that will be coming in 2021. Heavy Metal has …
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Festival Rewind – Aftershock Festival
In the absence of new festivals to cover, GameOn.media is taking a look back at some of our favorite festivals, which we look forward to writing about and taking pictures of, just as soon as we are able to safely do so again.
Danny Wimmer Presents has become the leading producer of rock festivals in the United States, and one of their crown jewels is Monster Energy Aftershock Festival, which takes place in the fall …
DWP Aftershock 2021 Lineup Announced: Metallica, My Chemical Romance, Rancid, Social Distortion, The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Rise Against, Volbeat & More October 7-10, 2021 In Sacramento, CA
Danny Wimmer Presents Announces
Lineup For Aftershock 2021
October 7-10 At Discovery Park In Sacramento, California
Metallica & My Chemical Romance
To Headline The West Coast’s Biggest Rock Festival
Also Featuring Rancid, Social Distortion, The Offspring, Machine Gun Kelly,
Rise Against, Volbeat, Gojira, Mastodon, Parkway Drive & Many More
Festival Expands With The Addition Of A Fourth Night, Headlined By Limp Bizkit
Single Day, 3-Day And 4-Day VIP …
Quarantine Dreams – Fantasy Festival Friday – Ghost – Avatar – In Flames – Europe – H.E.A.T
Six months into the 2020 global pandemic, and I have literally started dreaming about attending festivals, photographing concerts, and interviewing artists. Music festivals and live concerts have been postponed, rescheduled and canceled, sometimes all three. As the fall events have finally been eliminated, and the winter rock cruises have been pushed into May, I have no idea when I will be lucky enough to cover an actual concert again. In the meantime, GameOn.media presents Fantasy …
Avatar Bids Farewell To The King In San Diego
Images by Johnnie Crow
Words by Melissa Butterfly
Swedish heavy metal band Avatar kicked off Rocktober at The Observatory North Park in San Diego, California on October 2, 2019. The Observatory is such a great venue, not only as a classic theatre with its ornate stage and decor, but also with it’s acoustic sound, which yielded a perfect mosh up with Avatar’s heavy metal head banging and their theatrical performances.
Two Frenchmen, Inspector Cluzo, and …
Avatar Announce 2019 North American Avatar Country Tour Dates
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33-1/3 Best Hard Rock Albums Of 2018
2018 was one of the best years in recent memory when it comes to quality album releases from some of the biggest names in hard rock. The most common theme was struggling with the past couple of years, both internally and externally, while searching for a path to better days and a hopeful future.
Most people don’t listen to music on hard media these days, but if any of you happen to have any of …
First-Ever Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival Welcomes Foo Fighters, System Of A Down, Disturbed & More
First-Ever Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival
Welcomes Foo Fighters, System Of A Down, Disturbed,
Bring Me The Horizon, Ghost, The Prodigy & Many More
One-Of-A-Kind Destination Event To Feature Top Music Artists, Art Installations, Comedy Performances & More Incredible Onsite Experiences
May 17, 18 & 19, 2019 At MAPFRE Stadium In Columbus, Ohio
Tickets On Sale Friday, November 30 At Noon ET
Premier independent U.S. music festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents has announced …
Fort Rock 2018 Day 2 Review and Photos
Images and Words by Johnnie Crow
The 6th annual Fort Rock festival kicked off on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at Markham Park in Sunrise, Florida. After spending its first 5 years in Fort Myers, the festival moved across Alligator Alley to Fort Lauderdale and set up camp on the sprawling Markham Park. The grass field was lined with vendors of food, drink and merchandise of every kind. There were two main stages, aligned side by …
James Cameron has ‘Cracked the Code” on Underwater Mo-Cap System for ‘Avatar’ Sequels
James Cameron has always been at the forefront of technology when making a movie. From the groundbreaking effects in ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day‘ to the invention of the motion capture technology used in the first ‘Avatar‘, Cameron always seems to be developing some new technology for his current project. Cameron’s output in the last decade of his career has pretty much been contained within the aforementioned ‘Avatar‘, as well …
‘Avatar’ Sequels Begin Shooting, Reportedly Costing $1 Billion
It’s been nearly eight years since ‘Avatar‘ was released, but the road up to production on the ‘Avatar‘ sequels has been long and difficult. After years of production delays and an extended pre-production period to develop underwater Motion Capture technology, Director James Cameron‘s multi-film opus has finally entered production. Four concurrent sequels–‘Avatar 2‘, Avatar 3‘, ‘Avatar 4‘, and ‘Avatar 5‘– are currently shooting …