KnuckleBonz, Inc., along with Great South Bay Brewery and Bravado, have teamed up with PANTERA to bring a new beer, Pantera “Vulgar Display Of Lager”, to the KnuckleBonz limited-edition beverage series.

The Pantera “Vulgar Display Of Lager” (5.9%) is brewed in accordance with the oldest regulation related to food or drink in the world, The German Purity Law of 1516: in order to call your product beer, its production must be limited to only four simple ingredients hops, barley, water, and yeast. By selecting nothing but the finest of these ingredients coupled with traditional methods, the result is quite a “Vulgar Display Of Lager” with a complex flavor profile that is cold fermented for the crisp and refreshing experience you’d expect from a world-class German lager.

PANTERA fans who order first will receive a limited-edition collectible poster included free with their order. This poster is uniquely numbered and offered in a limited edition; this only ships to the first 500 customers.

“We’ve been privileged to work on few different collectible projects with PANTERA over the years and we get excited about being able to find new ways to honor the legends that have inspired so many of us,” says Tony Simerman, CEO/creative director of KnuckleBonz, Inc. “This beer was specifically crafted as a nod to something we think perhaps the band might choose when they ruled the metal world from ‘Cowboys To Hell’ to ‘Reinventing The Steel’.”

Creators of the “power groove,” PANTERA flew the flag for heavy metal in the 90’s compiling a long list of gold and platinum album and home video releases, along with sold out arena tours across the globe.

Pantera “Vulgar Display Of Lager” is available now to ship direct to consumer in 33 U.S. states. See web site for list of eligible states for shipping within the U.S.

PANTERA is regarded as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. The uncompromising quartet of singer Philip Anselmo, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott and bassist Rex Brown quickly rose to massive global success in the 1990s with multiple gold and platinum albums, sold-out tours, ferocious live performances, and four Grammy nominations. To this day, many of their metal masterpieces remain the cornerstones of heavy music, including “Cowboys From Hell”, “Vulgar Display Of Power”, and the Billboard No. 1 album “Far Beyond Driven”. The Texas foursome continues to inspire multitudes of fellow musicians while garnering millions of insanely devoted fans worldwide. Although the band would disband in the early 2000s, PANTERA’s unparalleled legacy endures as landmark tracks like “Walk” and “I’m Broken” continue to be embraced by new generations every year.

KnuckleBonz, Inc. is a music merchandising company focused on the creation of high-end products for music enthusiasts since 2003. KnuckleBonz is committed to fine craftsmanship and artistry and has developed the Rock Iconz, 3D Vinyl and On Tour collectible series. With a passion for music and a drive to make the highest quality products possible, this collaboration on the music-based craft beer line emphasizes that KnuckleBonz is solely focused on offering quality products specifically for the music superfan.

ASKING ALEXANDRIA guitarist and co-founder Ben Bruce recently appeared on “Side Jams With Bryan Reesman” to discuss his newfound love for cooking and embracing fatherhood. Beyond enjoying cooking all kinds of meat, he revealed that he had a dream of having a food truck, but that it probably wouldn’t go the way he’d like.

“I’ve always wanted a food truck,” Ben said. “I feel like I’ve just had this idea in my head forever, which, once I tell you the name of it, you’ll realize very quickly why it can’t happen. Because I’ll be getting all kinds of the wrong people queuing up for it. But I would love to have a food truck just with a British flag painted on the side. [We have] something in England — a fast food, quick snack called a sausage roll. And basically, it’s just a puff pastry wrapped around sausage meat. So me having the background I have in music, I would love to have a food truck with the British flag paint on the side, and I want it to be called Sex, Drugs And Sausage Rolls. We’ll sell all kinds of pastry snacks and stuff. My wife was just like, ‘Yeah, you know who’s going to be queuing up outside your food truck at two o’clock in the morning when they’re drunk coming from the pub.’ And I won’t have sex or drugs. I’ll just have the sausage rolls. And I don’t think it will be as quite as successful.”

Now a father of four who has appreciated time off with his family, Ben also looked back at the early days of ASKING ALEXANDRIA and regretted one big aspect of them.

“Everyone’s young at some point, and everyone has to be young and dumb, or you don’t learn, you don’t grow,” he said. “If you’re not making mistakes and being stupid, how do you learn how to become smart and grow as a human being? There were a lot of fun times. The only thing I definitely do regret is just getting so sucked into… or not even getting sucked in… allowing myself to be pushed into and therefore getting sucked into the rock ‘n roll lifestyle. People used to write [things] like, ‘ASKING ALEXANDRIA, the heroes of rock and roll. They’re just like MÖTLEY CRÜE.’ And when you’re young, it felt like an honor. So it was encouraged and it was pushed. People were like, ‘Well, if you don’t behave this way, you’re not rock and roll, and you’ll be forgotten and you won’t be successful.’ The one thing I truly regret is allowing myself to be put in that place, because it led to very real drug addictions and alcohol addictions. And it led to a very dark time in my life and the guys’ lives. That’s not fun. Unfortunately, some people don’t learn. And they continue down that path until they’re until their lives are gone and ended. You know, they’ve spent their whole lives controlled by substances and stuff like that. But fortunately for me, I was able to learn and move on from it. My wife and my kids opened my eyes to what’s really important in life, you know?”

This past January, ASKING ALEXANDRIA released a new EP titled “Never Gonna Learn” via Better Noise Music. In addition to the title track, the project included a new collaboration with Maria Brink from IN THIS MOMENT.

ASKING ALEXANDRIA closed out 2021 by celebrating its first-ever No. 1 at U.S. active rock radio with hit single “Alone Again”, taken from the band’s seventh full-length studio album “See What’s On The Inside”. The song had the biggest first streaming day and week in the group’s history and was a fitting first offering from its latest album. “See What’s On The Inside” made a top 10 Spotify debut in both the U.S. and the U.K. upon release.

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According to TMZ, former THE BLACK CROWES drummer Steve Gorman has filed a lawsuit against the paid over unpaid royalties.

In his complaint, Gorman claims faulty accounting has resulted in him missing out on royalties from THE BLACK CROWES’ albums. Gorman says he doesn’t know exactly how much he is owed.

Gorman, who penned 2019’s memoir “Hard To Handle: The Life And Death Of The Black Crowes”, is notably excluded from THE BLACK CROWES’ current reunion, which recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the band’s classic debut album, 1990’s “Shake Your Money Maker”, with a lengthy U.S. tour. Joining singer Chris Robinson and guitarist Rich Robinson in the new BLACK CROWES lineup are returning bassist Sven Pipien, who played with the band live from 1997 up until the band’s hiatus in 2015, along with Brian Griffin on drums, Joel Robinow on keyboards and Isaiah Mitchell on guitar, plus backup singers Mackenzie Adams and Leslie Grant.

Last August, Rich told the Los Angeles Times that he had no reaction to the release of Gorman’s memoir. “It didn’t really affect me or make me sad,” he said. “No one really takes Steve that seriously. He was our drummer for a long time, and a long time ago, he was our friend. But he was also the one who kind of schemed the most and was more willing to allow a division between me and Chris.” Rich added that he remembered Gorman “telling me that the scariest thing to him and some of the people in the band was when Chris and I got along, because then they couldn’t change our minds.”

Rich previously addressed Steve’s absence from THE BLACK CROWES’ current tour in a June 2021 interview with Long Island Weekly. At the time, he said: “Steve was one of the incredibly negative and manipulative forces in the band that we really didn’t want to deal with. In order to get back, we really had to do this very specific purge where we focus on the two of us and let this be something that will be positive. We can be in charge of our own triggers, but if you have other people around that have an agenda, which a lot of the older people around did, it’s just going to crash and burn. We didn’t look at this as a one-time thing. We want to focus and do it right for ourselves as human beings. For ourselves as brothers. For ourselves as writing and creative partners as well as the other reasons.”

In a February 2020 interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, Gorman said that he was not surprised to see Chris and Rich teaming up with new musicians for a tour. “To me, it’s been an inevitability for years,” Steve said. “I think they both made serious efforts to establish themselves in solo careers that could sustain them, that could provide a living, and I guess that neither one of those really worked out. And so they were always gonna need to be THE BLACK CROWES again. And this tour is an indication of the fact that, to them, they always were THE BLACK CROWES. And to me, THE BLACK CROWES was a band. It wasn’t about their band; it was our band. It was six people, or it was five people, or it was four people, depending on the year, but it was always a much greater thing than two brothers who wrote the songs. The success of that band had a lot to do with a lot more than just them, is my point. And the thing that was most special about that band, as I said before, was what six people were able to do when we were on the same page.”

Gorman went on to say that he doesn’t necessarily fault the Robinson brothers for wanting to keep THE BLACK CROWES brand alive.

“This tour has nothing to do with me — it never did; it never would have,” he explained. “THE BLACK CROWES are my past. Now, the music is still around. And if anybody goes to see this tour and decides that they love THE BLACK CROWES now, I think that’s fantastic. I’m all for preserving the legacy of the band I was in. I think this tour has nothing to do with that. I think this tour is the two of them needing money. And to that I say — and that’s fine. I know what it’s like to be concerned about my finances; everybody does. And if you’re in your 50s and you can make a living playing music, then, by God, you should be playing music, if that’s what you wanna do. So, they’re fully within their rights to do it — legally and ethically and morally; whatever. It’s fine. It’s got nothing to do with me. So, live and let live.”

When THE BLACK CROWES announced their split in 2014, Rich issued a statement saying that he loved his brother and respected his talent but that “his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share … is not something I could agree to.”

“Shake Your Money Maker” was re-released in multi-formats sets in February 2021 through UMe/American Recordings. The album, fueled by singles “Jealous Again”, “Twice As Hard”, “She Talks To Angels” and a cover of fellow Georgian Otis Redding’s “Hard To Handle”, has sold over five million copies.