Yell! Magazine https://www.yellmagazine.com Where Subcultures Collide™ Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:54:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 Kimbo Slice Passes Away At Age 42 https://www.yellmagazine.com/kimbo-slice-passes-age-42/109659/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/kimbo-slice-passes-age-42/109659/#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:44:38 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109659 On Monday, one of MMA’s biggest draws in the history of the sport died at age 42. His street name was best known as Kimbo Slice, but close friends and family knew him as Kevin Ferguson. At the moment, the cause of death is unknown.

According to TMZ, law enforcement sources told them … Slice was admitted to a hospital near his home on Monday in Coral Springs, Florida and police where at his home gathering information from family members.

At the time of his death, Slice was signed with Bellator MMA. He defeated Dada 5000 in February at Bellator 149, but the victory was overturned when Slice tested positive for a banned steroid.

Bellator President Scott Coker released the following statement on Slice’s death.

We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family.

One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.

Outside of the cage he was a friendly, gentle giant and a devoted family man. His loss leaves us all with extremely heavy hearts, and our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Ferguson family and all of Kimbo’s friends, fans, and teammates.

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Therapy For A Vampire: A Hilarious Two-Fanged Comedy You Don’t Want To Miss https://www.yellmagazine.com/therapy-vampire/109633/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/therapy-vampire/109633/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 22:47:24 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109633 Are you looking to loosen up a bit this month with a modern vampire comedy? If so then you may want to cozy up with someone and check out this clever two-fanged flick directed by David Ruehm where the laughs run as freely as the blood.

Entitled Therapy of a Vampire, the film is set in pre-World War II Vienna, where a Count named von Kozsnom (Tobias Moretti) has lost all faith in life and seeks psycological counseling from Sigmund Freud (Karl Fischer) to regain momentum in his love life.

Vienna, 1930. Count von Kozsnom has lost his thirst for life, and his marriage cooled centuries ago. Fortunately, Sigmund Freud is accepting new patients; the good doctor suggests the Count appease his vain wife by commissioning a portrait of her by his assistant, Viktor. But it’s Viktor’s headstrong girlfriend Lucy who most intrigues the Count, convinced she’s the reincarnation of his one true love. Soon, the whole crowd is a hilarious mess of mistaken identities and misplaced affections in this send-up of the vampire genre, proving that 500 years of marriage is enough.

The reception for the film was very positive during its run in the film festival circuit in the last two years, winning Best European, North or South American Feature at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec.

Therapy of a Vampire will be released in New York and Los Angeles on June 10th, and a wider theatrical will kick start on June 24th from Music Box Films.


Therapy For A Vampire Trailer

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Release Date Set For Italian Horror Film, “Doctor Butcher M.D.” aka Zombie Holocaust https://www.yellmagazine.com/release-date-set-italian-horror-doctor-butcher-m-d-aka-zombie-holocaust/109624/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/release-date-set-italian-horror-doctor-butcher-m-d-aka-zombie-holocaust/109624/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:47:06 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109624 Those of you who have a constant craving for Italian gore will be thrilled about this upcoming Blu-ray release of Marino Girolami’s horror film, Zombi Holocaust, which is also better known in the U.S. as Zombi 3 and Doctor Butcher M.D..

The horror film initially launched in 1980. Apparently, at the time of its release, Zombi Holocaust sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS, and forever set an insane standard for Italian mad doctor/zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide.

Back in the day, Zombi Holocaust was re-edited for U.S. release by a notorious American distributor, who certified as a grindhouse masterpiece. The English version contained a 2½ minute sequence from an unfinished film that was to be called Tales to Rip Your Heart Out, and a different music score. Certain scenes were also re-edited for pacing reasons.

Now, 36 years later, Severin Films will re-release both the Italian and American version fully restored for the first time ever from original vault elements discovered in Manhattan and Rome.

According to the press release, the Blu-ray release will also contain “all-new Bonus Features that finally reveal the unbelievable truth behind its bizarre history, infamous marketing and still-deviant legacy.”

The Zombi Holocaust hits store shelves on July 26, 2016.


Zombie Holocaust

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An Extensive Look At The Conjuring 2 [Photo Gallery] https://www.yellmagazine.com/conjuring-2-photo-gallery/109582/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/conjuring-2-photo-gallery/109582/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:51:57 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109582 In just a matter of days, horror hounds can finally experience The Conjuring 2, the sequel to James Wan’s supernatural sensation, which follows the real-life story of paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren performed by Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, respectively.

Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Ahead of the film’s release, we have compiled an extensive photo gallery just to help tide you over the gap. The Conjuring 2 also stars Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente, Lauren Esposito, Patrick McAuley, Benjamin Haigh, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Simon Delaney.

The Conjuring 2 hits the big screen on Friday, June 10th, 2016.

In the meantime, check out the gallery above.

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Suicide Monday: This Is The Morning You’ve Been Waiting For https://www.yellmagazine.com/suicide-monday-azalea-slim/109571/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/suicide-monday-azalea-slim/109571/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 04:00:14 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109571 Mondays suck – Here’s your suicide solution.

Our favorite SuicideGirls meet a few of our standards: She should be tattooed and/or pierced, fit into one or more of our topics of interest (heavy metal, horror/sci-fi/action movies, MMA, and/or mature video games), and be a seemingly interesting person (as best as we can judge from their brief bios), and, of course, she must be sexy.

Why SuicideGirls? They say it best: “SuicideGirls is a community that celebrates Alternative Beauty and alternative culture from all over the world.” Hey, we’re into that subculture thing too.


Azalea Suicide

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Location: New York
Age: 23
Occupation: Body Piercer
Height: 5′
Weight: 106 lbs
My idea of a good time: Support local music. Go to a show.
Into: Body mods, cats, coffee, mermaid at heart, tattoos, friends, having a good time
5 things that I can’t live without: Coffee, handpipe, my cats, my record player


Music: A Day to Remember, Anthony Green, Arctic Monkeys, Bayside, Brand New, Circa Survive, Envy on the Coast, Four Year Strong, Taking Back Sunday


Television: Bob’s Burgers, Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23, Sons of Anarchy, The Munsters, The Walking Dead


Films: Beauty and the Beast, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Savages, Snatch, The Strangers


Video games: Lollipop Chainsaw, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

Find out more about Slim Suicide after the jump…

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Top 10 Barbarian Movies – Or: Hot, Sweaty, Glistening Man Candy But In A Totally Hetero Way! https://www.yellmagazine.com/top-10-barbarian-movies/18140/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/top-10-barbarian-movies/18140/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:30:11 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=18140 With August 19th’s Conan The Barbarian 3D fast approaching, it is perhaps time to ponder such existential questions as: “Is the barbarian movie making a comeback?”; “Can director Marcus Nispel and star Jason Momoa bring respectability or at least a sense of fun back to a nearly forgotten genre?”; and “Was I supposed to apply quite this much genital ointment to my man-parts?” I only ask because this flesh-melting, volcano-like burning sensation in my loins is starting to worry me.

These are all good questions. Some more pertinent than others, granted. None of which are going to be answered during the course of this article. What? You thought I was going somewhere with those?

This is Yell! Magazine’s Top 10 Barbarian Movies list. It will be filled with sword and sorcery, heroes and villains, naked, glistening, drool-worthy bodies worth getting heart palpitations over. And that’s just the dudes! Oh yes, barbarian movies and gratuitous exposure of sweater puppies go hand in hand. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a single movie on this list that doesn’t contain enough female nudity to initiate any youthful movie lover into manhood with a single viewing and some hand lotion. Alternatively, the rampant male eye-candy is also in abundance, so ladies need not feel left out, barbarian movies are nothing if not equal opportunity presenters of naughty parts.

As usual, either because I couldn’t be arsed, threatened or bribed, these movies are presented in no particular order. If you want fancy extras like that, my dear Evil Tormenting Bosses, I suggest you loosen the purse strings to the cash-for-hookers jar. I notice it’s a little light this month. Been hitting the office orgies a little hard, uh? Don’t think I haven’t noticed how sticky the floors have been lately. In keeping with the theme of this list, could I maybe request a nice barbarian escort wearing a leather loincloth, preferably bare-chested, with long hair and maybe wielding a sharp blade?

Top 10 Barbarian Movies
Like this but with a vagina.


No.10 Deathstalker (1983)

DeathstalkerYou have to love those old VHS box-art covers. Look at that thing! They promised so much more than these movies invariably ended up delivering. Judging by the creature on the cover, I was expecting some stop-motion wizardry, something along the lines of a Ray Harryhausen creation. No such luck. Deathstalker, part one of four if you can believe it, doesn’t have anywhere near the budget for such fancy effects, so any and all monsters are played by the old standby of really-big-guy-in-silly-mask.

Deathstalker is your basic hero’s journey, with the titular character, somewhat well-played by Rick Hill, being given a journey to A where he must gather B in order to defeat C, where A is a danger-filled location from which nobody as ever returned in the history of ever, B is an item of great mystical power that can only be wielded by a prophesied One! (heavenly choir) and C is the villain who will inevitably have some personal connection to the hero. Yeah, I’m jaded, so sue me.

What truly makes Deathstalker a special viewing pleasure is the sheer, stratospheric amount of female nudity, amply provided by ’80s Playmate Barbi Benton and the sadly missed and oft-naked Lana Clarkson, tragically slain by record producer Phil Spector.

Deathstalker
Those things are going to flop out the first time she swings a sword. Scuse me while I go pick a fight…

Deathstalker is a wonderfully brain-dead movie, more suited to watching MST3K-style than in all seriousness. Still, it’s harmless entertainment, a fun slice of ’80s cheese and a nice introduction to all the Conan rip-offs that flooded the market around that time. Plus, it spawned three sequels. Can you say Deathstalker marathon? Pass the Cheetohs!


Don’t we all wish we could have powers like this? Ummm… I wonder what my boss could look like.


No.9 The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

The Sword and the SorcererHere is a movie literally bursting with B-movie greatness. Directed by veteran hack Albert Pyun? Check. Costarring perennial B-movie villain Richard Lynch? Check. Appearance by famed actor/sword master Anthony De Longis? Check. Topless hotties? Check, check, check, several more checks. Imaginative three-bladed sword with wildly improbable projectile action? Oh, hell yes!

The Sword and the Sorcerer
You���ll put your eye out with that! Both of them! And poke a hole in your forehead!

While The Sword And The Sorcerer isn’t lacking in the imagination department, it’s financed with little more than prayers and good intentions. It’s a common problem with many of the movies on this list, no doubt serving to explain why the various directors compensated with massive amounts of bared chesticles. Special effects are expensive but breasts come in all shapes and sizes. I think I read that in a fortune cookie… In any case, our hero, Talon, enthusiastically played by Lee Horsley, must kill a wizard, rescue a princess and save a kingdom. Not necessarily in that order but Talon wisely rescues the princess first in order to secure ample nudity privileges for the rest of his quest. I guess that’s why he’s the hero. Surprisingly, Sword And The Sorcerer recently spawned a sequel, Tales Of An Ancient Empire, a full 29 years after the original! It even reunites both director and star.


No.8 Conquest (1983)

Conquest“Anything you can do, I can do better…”

Ah, Italian copies! What fond memories I have of scanning the shelves of my local video store, looking for the latest Conan The Barbarian knock-offs from overseas. Conquest is a particularly bizarre entry in director Lucio Fulci’s oeuvre. Here is a man better known for zombies, existential horror and rampant eyeball trauma than barbarian movies. Conquest hits all the genre touchstones: epic journey, magical weapon, and an evil, masked sorceress in need of some righteous slaying who, for some reason, spends the entirety of the movie with her tits out. Apparently, she went to the school of topless tart spell casting. (Titwarts? Nah, sounds nasty. University of Texas? Bingo!)

Luckily, our valiant hero comes equipped with a magic bow and a kung-fu grip. I think I’ll have to check his action figure. Regardless, our sorceress-gone-wild gets taken down quite easily by a single arrow to her naked torso. I get the feeling she may have had one of those glowing zones on her chest to indicate a weak spot like many video game bosses.

Conquest
Boobs! My only weakness!

Or not. I have no idea. My copy of the movie was in Italian so I had to make up my own dialog. If anything, my ramblings probably outshone the actual script by a factor of 10.


No.7 Barbarian Queen (1985)

Barbarian QueenWho says barbarians can only be men? Just look at these strong, capable women. Obviously powerful, no doubt as smart as they are sexy and more than willing to defenestrate you if you say otherwise. And you wouldn’t want anything terrible to happen to your fenestrates, would you? Don’t let the bountiful flesh fool you, or the exposed buttocks, or the ample… tracks of land… the improbably bouffant and well-conditioned hairdos… the suggestive poses…the kinky medieval S&M games? WTF?

Barbarian Queen
There’s a “nice rack” joke in here somewhere.

You know, I’m starting to get the feeling this movie doesn’t really present any strong, female archetypes for women viewers to latch on to. Just a smidgen of a notion, really. Could be the runaway nudity, could be the multiple rape and attempted rape scenes. In any case, the beautiful Lana Clarkson stars as Amethea, one of three female survivors of a brutal village raid led by Roman soldiers that set off to liberate the captured men folk faster than you can say “sisters doing it together”. It’s not PC. It won’t get Gloria Steinem’s seal of approval. But if you’re tired of the usual barbarian sausage fests, this makes for a nice alternative.


A mud fight with chicks? Now this list is starting to be interesting.

Find out which barbarian movie ranked No.1 after the jump…

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UFC 202: Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor 2 Back On This Summer https://www.yellmagazine.com/ufc-202-nate-diaz-vs-conor-mcgregor-2-summer/109546/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/ufc-202-nate-diaz-vs-conor-mcgregor-2-summer/109546/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:19:14 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109546 Initially scheduled for UFC 200, the Conor McGregor welterweight rematch with Nate Diaz will now officially take place at UFC 202 later this summer.

The hotly anticipated fight was finally announced during the UFC 199 pay-per-view broadcast on Saturday night, which also featured a promo for UFC 200 with former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar returning for one last fight.

Diaz pulled off the shocking upset at UFC 196, defeating the Irish sensation by submission in the second round of the main event. Ever since his first UFC loss, McGregor has been pushing for the Diaz rematch, which was instantly booked for UFC 200, but was later cancelled because McGregor refused to do promotional work at a live UFC 200 press conference.

A rumored boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and McGregor has been circulating for the past few weeks, but with this recent announcement, the bout will have to be postponed for many months or even years, if it actually happens.

Freddie Roach said it would take him at least three years to prepare McGregor for Mayweather,

As I told Mayweather, I said, ‘it would take me three years at least to get him ready to fight you.’ I don’t really think it’s possible for an MMA fighter to fight a boxer and I don’t even really think it’s fair. Depends on what rules you fight under, one person has too big of an advantage. Mayweather would outbox him all day long. Conor McGregor seems like a tough guy and all that but being a tough guy doesn’t really help you in boxing…

UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 will be held on August 20, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. No other bout has been confirmed for UFC 202.


UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 Promo

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I Spit On Your Grave (1978): Yell! Magazine’s Classics Of Exploitation Series https://www.yellmagazine.com/i-spit-on-your-grave-1978-review/7490/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/i-spit-on-your-grave-1978-review/7490/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:20:11 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=7490 Other than Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave is the most famous of all the rape/revenge exploitation films. The film was originally released as Day of the Woman in 1978 in a short theatrical run. In 1981, it was rereleased in theaters as I Spit on Your Grave. Again the film’s time in theaters was short mostly due to negative reviews from critics (the most famous being Roger Ebert’s condemnation).

I Spit on Your Grave stars Camille Keaton as Jennifer Hills, a writer who leaves the bustling city of New York to write her next novel in the rural countryside. She rents a house at Parkhill Lake and on her trip she stops at a local gas station to fill her tank and ask for directions. We are introduced to the station attendant, Johnny (Eron Tabor), and his two hoodlum friends, Stanley (Anthony Nichols) and Andy (Gunter Kleemann). While Johnny tends to Jennifer’s car he has a casual conversation with her, and Andy and Stanley play a knife game in the grass nearby.

Although Johnny is acting politely, he and his two friends look to be unpleasant characters, judging from their dress and ownership of a switchblade. Being the middle of the day, Andy and Stanley seem to be unemployed hangers-on to their leader, Johnny.

Not a shy woman, Jennifer reaches the house and is so enraptured with the riverside location she immediately undresses and goes for a swim. This gives the audience the first glimpse of nudity. It’s also director Meir Zarchi first opportunity to create sexual arousal in the viewer, a response he will soon turn to disgust, followed by horror.

After a short swim, Zarchi cuts to Jennifer inside the bedroom of the house unpacking. When she puts some clothes in the top drawer of a dresser, she discovers a pistol of unknown origin. The director is telling us that further into the film Jennifer will be in danger and will use the gun in some way. The swim foreshadows the sex, the gun foreshadows the violence: If theater-goers weren’t paying close attention before, they were now.

The doorbell rings and now we meet mentally challenged grocery delivery boy Matthew (Richard Pace). Jennifer is somewhat surprised that Matthew found the place (we must assume Jennifer called in a grocery order as it wasn’t shown in the film). The director is now telling us Jennifer’s location is secluded and out of the way to any visitors. Matthew informs Jennifer he knows the area well as he has delivered there numerous times.

After Matthew leaves Jennifer, we see him join up with Johnny and his friends at the gas station. Matthew brags about seeing Jennifer’s breasts and they all kill the rest of the day by going fishing and talking about screwing women from the city.

The next day we find Jennifer near the river writing while in a hammock. Two of the hoodlums are in a motorboat and they show off speeding around in circles like idiots. Jennifer cannot continue writing with the disturbance so she leaves and goes inside the house.

Jennifer continues writing her book into the evening until she hears strange noises coming from outside the house. She investigates, but finds nothing.

The next afternoon we find Jennifer out on the river sunbathing in a canoe. Stanley and Andy come by in the motorboat and tie a rope to the canoe. They pull the canoe to shore. Jennifer tries to defend herself with an oar, but when it slips from her hands she runs into the woods to try to escape. The two hoodlums chase after her.

Johnny is waiting for Jennifer in the woods and throws her to the ground. He rips off her bathing suit and he, along with Stanley and Andy, pins her to the ground. Johnny calls out Matthew from the bush and tells him to have sex with her. The boys discussed getting Matthew a girl the night before while fishing and Johnny tells Matthew this is his chance to lose his cherry.

Matthew still refuses, so Johnny has him help the other men pin Jennifer to the ground while he rapes her. Jennifer walks away afterward and the men let her go. After she walks a few hundred yards they surround her and Andy takes his turn.

The men walk away and leave Jennifer half conscience draped over a rock. They return to the motorboat and leave the area, taking Jennifer’s canoe along with them. They dump the canoe in the middle of the river and continue on without it.

Jennifer manages to make it back to the house and crawls to the phone in the living room. Unfortunately, the men are waiting for her in the house and Stanley kicks the phone from her hands. This time Jennifer takes the initiative and begins to fight back by biting Stanley in the leg and ear, but she is no match for the larger and stronger man and she quits after repeated blows to the head, ribs, and stomach.

After some more stomach-churning violence and rape, Johnny tells Matthew to return inside with his switchblade to kill Jennifer so she can’t identify them. Matthew enters the house but doesn’t have the constitution to commit murder. Instead, he wipes the blade in blood from Jennifer’s face and runs back to the others. Johnny sees the blood and believes Matthew committed the crime.

Jennifer wakes up and takes a bath and goes to bed. After the shock wears off, she contemplates what to do. She smokes, takes walks in the forest, retypes her manuscript, and finally decides to kill the motherfuckers who raped her.

Two weeks pass and we see the guys together at a cafe speaking about the murder and worrying about the stench the body must be making in the summer heat. To investigate the problem, Johnny sends Stanley and Andy to reconnoiter the area. From the motorboat, they see Jennifer alive and sitting on the lawn.

Because of his deception, Matthew receives a beating from the boys and is sent on his way having lost the only friends he had in the town. Meanwhile, Jennifer drives to a local church and asks for forgiveness, presumably for the crimes she is about to commit.

Jennifer drives to the gas station and from a distance sees that Johnny has a wife and two kids. She then moves to the grocery store and sees that Matthew is working. She returns home and telephones in a food order knowing that Matthew will be sent with the delivery.

When Matthew arrives and sees her, he becomes frightened and pulls out a knife. Jennifer lures him down to the river under a large tree. She undoes her white dress to show Matthew her naked body and tells him there is no reason to be angry with her because of the loss of his friends (he blames her presence in the area for the loss) as she will be his friend and give him a summer to remember.

Jennifer unbuckles Matthew’s pants and pulls him down on top of her. While he’s having sex with her, she slips a noose around his neck. She pulls him off and strings him up from a tree. He dies hanging there with his pants around his ankles.

After Matthew’s death, Jennifer unties him and throws his body and his delivery bicycle into the river. She returns to the house and to further cover her tracks, telephones the grocery store to complain that she ordered food over an hour previous and the delivery has yet to arrive.

Continue reading the review after the jump…

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UFC 200: Brock Lesnar Confirmed On Main Fight Card https://www.yellmagazine.com/ufc-200-brock-lesnar-confirmed-main-fight-card/109534/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/ufc-200-brock-lesnar-confirmed-main-fight-card/109534/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:08:58 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109534 The word is officially out on Brock Lesnar’s return to MMA, which means the UFC is going to have one hell of a good fight card for UFC 200 in July.

Last night during UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2, the UFC unleashed a new UFC 200 promo in between the main and co-main event, which featured Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones, including a glance at Miesha Tate vs. Amanda Nunes. Plus, Lesnar appeared at the very end of the clip with his opponent listed as to be determined (TBD).

At the moment, Lesnar opponent isn’t close to being finalized and it is unclear at this time who is under consideration, but the UFC definitely has a few interesting options in the heavyweight division such as Stefan Struve, Mark Hunt, and Derrick Lewis, just to name a few.

If you’re wondering about Lesnar’s commitment to the WWE, well, apparently they approve his MMA return and have granted him a one-off opportunity while under contract.

The WWE released to following statement clarifying the situation with the UFC:

Brock Lesnar remains under contract to WWE, however, he has been granted a one-off opportunity to compete at UFC 200,” the statement read. “Following this milestone event on July 9, Brock will return to WWE for Summerslam on Sunday, August 21, live on WWE Network.

UFC 200: Cormier vs. Jones 2 will be held on July 9, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Epica Announce New Album & The Epic Metal Fest Info https://www.yellmagazine.com/epica-announce-album-epic-metal-fest-info/109532/ https://www.yellmagazine.com/epica-announce-album-epic-metal-fest-info/109532/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2016 16:29:57 +0000 https://www.yellmagazine.com/?p=109532 Holland’s greatest symphonic metal band, Epica, have finally put the last touches on their new upcoming studio album, The Holographic Principle. The album will be delivered to the world via Nuclear Blast Records on September 30th. The album was produced with Joost van der Broek at Sandlane Recording Facilities. Mixing was handled by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Destruction). The cover artwork was created by Stefan Heilemann.

The band commented:

Our highly anticipated seventh studio album is a fact. The Holographic Principle feels to us like a true treasure, created by us all with blood, sweat, and tears of joy. In the past year we have worked very hard to write and record this special album. We are all very eager to share it with you! Join us on our new musical journey.

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To celebrate the release of Epica’s brand-new record, the band will be playing on their own Epic Metal Fest at the 013 in Tilburg, NL, on Saturday, October 1st. They invited Katatonia, their label mates Fleshgod Apocalypse, and (also landsmen) Textures to take part in this special event. Additionally, Stream of Passion, The Agonist, Mayan, Myrath, Evil Invaders, and, last but not least, Off the Cross will be attending Epica’s release show. On Saturday 15th October the Brazilian edition of Epic Metal Fest will take place in Sao Paulo. Paradise Lost, Fintroll, Xandria, and The Ocean will join Epica for this first edition.

More info & tickets: www.epicmetalfest.com

Epica Tour Dates:

04.06. BY Minsk – Re:public
05.06. CZ Plzen – Metalfest Open Air
07.06. SK Bratislava – Majestic Music Club
08.06. I Rome – Rock In Rome
10.06. S Sölvesborg – Sweden Rock Festival
24.06. DK Copenhagen – Copenhell
09.07. D Geiselwind – Out & Loud Festival
16.07. H Dunaujvaros – Rockmaraton Festival
23.07. MEX Mexico City – Heaven & Hell Festival
05./06.08. LT Zarasai City – Roko Naktys
01.10. NL Tilburg – Epic Metal Fest Netherlands
15.10. BR Sao Paulo – Epic Metal Fest Brazil

w/ Powerwolf
03.02. UK London – o2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
04.02. F Paris – Le Zénith

Rock Hard \m/

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