Metal News

The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents.org/paramount. 8 p.m. $46-$96.

The breakneck brand of metal that New Jersey's the Dillinger Escape Plan helped pioneer a decade-and-a-half ago still strikes a chord around these parts.

Rotten Records represents extreme metal and hardcore acts and has carved out a niche market over its 20 year history, taking chances and changing conventional industry standards.

Thursday's concert calendar is topped by tributes to George Gershwin and Michael Jackson.

Although violent events at hospitals are still regarded as rare, some security experts say hospitals may have to consider using metal detectors.

The matter of war has been a prominent topic in the rock world since the movement's very beginning, resulting in numerous war-related classic tunes.

The members of Slipknot are on the hunt for a new drummer following the departure of founding member Joey Jordison , and it sounds like they may have found his replacement in second-generation E Street Band member Jay Weinberg.

What do you get when you combine giant foam headpieces, costume colors reminiscent of the Power Rangers, a cosmic anime aesthetic and Japanese punk music? New York City-based band Peelander-Z.

Photo provided Mavis Muller's banner "Alaskans Still Fighting for the Earth" hangs off an Alaska fishing boat.

Power metal never died. It just moved to Scandinavia where the icy climate could carefully preserve its bravado and majesty.

Posted on: 4:13 pm, April 15, 2014, by Kelly Maricle and Stephanie Moore , updated on: 06:01pm, April 15, 2014 Dr. Daniel Baldi is facing nine charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug-related deaths of former patients.

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Calgary police say the son of one of their own is a suspect in the worst mass murder in the city's history, a bloody and baffling attack on a group of university students at a house party.

Woods, "With Light and With Love": These Brooklyn psych-folk workhorses sing of death while sounding ever more life affirming on their eighth album in as many years.

The instrumental portion of As I Lay Dying is officially heading out on its own.

Cleveland OH - The historic Agora did what it does best and that is bring the music to the fans .

Jaco Pastorius is considered by many to be the greatest electric bassist of all time.

NEW MUSIC: Megadeath frontman Dave Mustaine is planning to perform more classical music in the future after hailing his one-off turn with the San Diego Symphony orchestra a success.

Lacuna Coil has been a steady force in the rock music scene the world over for several years.

In the summer of 2012, sepulchral Orange-based clothing company Blackcraft Cult was just an idea, an itch burrowing through the brains of co-founders Bobby Schubenski and Jim Somers.