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The seventh annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, one of the world's biggest heavy music touring festivals, will bring its tough sounds Thursday to DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston.

As a MuchMusic VJ in the channel's 1980s heyday, Terry David Mulligan remembers sneaking a film crew into the very temple of the American music industry - the Grammy Awards.

Abu Sumayyah claims that despite his desire for martyrdom, there is no interest in launching terror attacks on the UK A father who fled Britain to join extremists waging war in the Middle East is on a waiting list to be a suicide bomber - and hopes to be picked soon.

Andrew Poulin joined the fighting in Syria in 2012. He died there in the summer of 2013 and reportedly left behind a wife and child.

The 8 Ball 7.12.14: Top 8 Metal Frontmen Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 07.12.2014 From Metallica's James Hetfield and Rob Halford of Judas Priest to Ozzy Osbourne, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister and more, 411's Jeremy Thomas counts down the top 8 metal frontmen of all-time! Welcome, one and all, to the 8 Ball in the Music Zone! I'm your host Jeremy ... (more)

American-Armenian drummer, composer, member of the famous band System of a Down John Dolmayan answered a question concerning the Armenian Genocide on the popular U.S. social news website Reddit.

Judas Priest's Rob Halford has admitted he had a "diva moment" when he heard Metallica had been booked for Glastonbury.

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Kirk Hammett 's latest project has nothing to do with music. The Metallica guitarist is getting ready to unveil a new, limited-edition action figure courtesy of his own Kirk Von Hammett Toys.

Extreme Islamist group ISIS have seized 90lb of radioactive uranium in Iraq which could be used to make a dirty bomb.

Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo revealed that the band has been working on new music with current singer Chester Bennington of Linkin Park.

The Philippines on Friday arrested an Australian national with suspected links to foreign Islamist militants after he urged Philippine Muslims on social media sites to support conflicts in Iraq and Syria, recruiting them to go to the Middle East.

Having a teenage "dance and vocal group" on the same bill as Iron Maiden and Metallica might seem like a strange choice.

The driver of a stolen Model S sedan that crashed and split in two in west Los Angeles nearly a week ago has died.

Police confirmed yesterday that twins Salma and Zahra Halane are believed to have fled to Syria after initially travelling in secret from Manchester airport to Istanbul.

On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan.

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to fire a mortar during what the FSA said was an offensive to take control of al-Zaalana checkpoint in Wadi al-Deif military camp, which remains under government control, in the southern Idlib countryside July 9, 2014.

Now in its 9th year, Hellfest has grown to become one of the three largest festivals in France, attracting more than 150,000 metal fans over its three days.

From furniture salesman to president, a man of the people. Without military training or from a big family, Joko Widodo is a new style of politician for Indonesia.

Almost a year to the day after he was arrested on suspicion of plotting a massacre , notorious black metal singer Varg Vikernes has been found guilty of inciting racial hatred.