When Stephen Colbert announced that he was getting into the concert cruise business with StePhest Colbchella ’012 Rocktaugustfest, I thought he might be joking. Everything Colbert does is either hilariously half-assed or completely over-the-top. One look at this intro sequence, and you’ll know this is the latter.
When we learned last week that the Mayhem Cruise was canceled, we like everyone else who had planned to go, were disappointed and wondered what happened exactly. This week, I got the chance to interview Scott Ian for an upcoming feature on Anthrax in The Oregonian. While I had him on the phone, I asked…
Last weekend, things were looking up for the Mayhem Cruise. The lead singer of the event’s headlining band, Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe, was finally released from jail in Prague, after being held for a month on (seemingly very bogus) manslaughter charges. But yesterday, the Mayhem Cruise issued this statement via their website: Unfortunately, due…
