Metal News

If you're a fan of either Smashing Pumpkins or Motley Crue , you would've had to have been hiding under a rock to miss the recent news that Tommy Lee has been the guest drummer on Smashing Pumpkins' new album.

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is making a guest appearance on Blood In, Blood Out , the upcoming album from his former band Exodus.

Portland duo the Body , drummer Lee Buford and guitarist Chip King, take their horror-movie aesthetic so far, it's hard to know whether to laugh or to run like hell.

Simply calling Anathema a "progressive British rock band" is understating a magical, emotional experience.

Health workers take blood samples for Ebola virus testing at a screening tent in the local government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, June 30, 2014.

People walk on the rubble of the destroyed Mosque of The Prophet Younis, or Jonah, in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 24, 2014.

'My job is to make the track and let the other people bring the racers,' said Jim Dallam from the Cincinnati maker space HIVE13.

The "Harry Potter" star, who celebrated his 25th birthday on Wednesday, was serenaded with "Happy Birthday" by the 6,000-plus fans attending the Friday panel for his new movie "Horns."

Following the conclusion of August Burns Red's blistering show at the Break Down the Walls tour stop in Calgary, Matt Greiner took to Twitter to thank fans who came out for the April 5 set.

Featuring lead vocal contributions from Greg Puciato, Max Cavalera, and Troy Sanders, the aggressive assemblage of songs runs the gamut from percussive crowd-inciting bruality, jagged basement style carnage, and melodic off-kilter hooks.

The inventor of the Dean Guitars double signature model dazzles the crowd at Sam Ash Music during his instructional clinic Thursday night.

Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014.

At a Friday night release party, held in a warehouse next to Minimal's West Loop office, the bike prototype developed by Chicago's Oregon Manifest team was finally revealed to the public.

That's the astonishing claim being made by the 50-year-old musician, who's posted footage of the alleged incident online.

THE inquest into the death of Droitwich helicopter pilot Richard Menzies has closed at Worcestershire Coroner's Court with a narrative verdict.

The top Toronto metal bands of all time make for a curious collection. Toronto's metal scene has never really been big enough to capture worldwide attention the way Sweden, San Francisco or even Quebec scenes have throughout history.

The winner of Indonesia's presidential election has been receiving congratulatory messages from an unlikely group of supporters - heavy metal music fans around the world.

The militant group ISIS is continuing its rampage of holy places by destroying the tomb of Jonah, a place thought to be the burial site of the prophet believed by Abrahamic faiths to have been swallowed by a whale or fish.

Metallica 's Kirk Hammett is once again taking part in San Diego's Comic-Con. But this time he's doing his own thing.

Pop star to rock star, followed by a leap to folk fame - who would have thought Busted's fresh-faced Charlie Simpson could be so well received by music-lovers in all three genres? Kingston's Banquet Records knew he would be a hit when they hired him for a show just before the release of his first solo endeavour Young Pilgrim three years ago.