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According to People.com, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich celebrated his upcoming nuptials to model Jessica Miller with a boys' weekend in San Francisco. On Saturday, the musician hit up Lucky Strike for a night o...

Founding member Kelly Shaefer of Florida based technical metal pioneers, Atheist, has posted the following update: “I've been cast in a small role as a cop in the directorial debut of my long time friend ...

In Times, the thirteenth studio album from Norwegian extreme metallers, Enslaved, will be released on March 6th via Nuclear Blast. The band are offering a foretaste of the album in the form of a series of track...

In anticipation of their upcoming new record, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Finland-based symphonic metal masters Nightwish now announce their Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Europe 2015 tour, kicking off mid-No...

Kelly Shaefer of Florida-based technical metal pioneers ATHEIST has been cast in a small role as a cop in the directorial debut of his longtime friend John McElroy. Shooting for Kelly's part in the film, called...

Finland-based symphonic metal masters NIGHTWISH will launch the European leg of their "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" in November in Copenhagen, Denmark. Support on the trek will come from AMORPHIS and ARCH ENEM...

Coming off an era which saw several Judas Priest albums that have gone down as some of the greatest in the entire history of heavy metal (namely, 1980's British Steel and 1982's Screaming For Vengeance), the ba...

Classic rockers Toto has unveiled another new song called "Burn" from their upcoming album, Toto XIV, due out via Frontiers Music globally on March 20th, March 23rd in the UK and North America on Marc...

Music Radar recently caught up with guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, who offered his Top 5 tips for guitarists. An excerpt from the interview is available below. Vai: "Whatever you do – whether you have to chan...

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Black Sabbath guitar legend Tony Iommi has appealed to metal-loving Indonesian President Joko Widodo to spare the lives of the two Australians on death row. On Wednesday,...

In a new interview with The L.A. Times, Cynic members Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert discuss their lives and how it affected the band when they came out as gay. An excerpt from the interview is available below:...

Montreal's Blackguard have announced three shows for Southern Ontario, their first gigs in over a year. Their schedule is as follows: April30 - Ottawa, Ontario - Mavericks May1 - Hamilton, Ontario - Absinthe&nb...

Prog metal kings Dream Theater have checked in with the following update: "Jordan Rudess and the debut performance of OrKeystra from NAMM 2015! Filmed and Edited by Jason McNamara. OrKeystra is Jordan Rudess' n...

Word has come down that Broken Hope's founding drummer Ryan Stanek has died at the age of 42. He passed away on March 1st. Broken Hope guitarist Jeremy Wagner has released the following statement:  "I was ...

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has appealed to Indonesian president Joko Widodo to spare the lives of the two Australians who were sentenced to death in 2006 for tryi...

Progressive power metallers Shadowkiller from North Carolina have signed a worldwide deal with Pure Steel Records. Lineup: Joe Liszt (D-Train, HellHound, Rocka Rollas, Ancient Empire) - guitar, lead vocal -Marc...