Metal News

Goteborgs-Posten 's GP TV conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan at this year's edition of the Metaltown festival on Friday, June 26 at Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden.

London metal band Kittie is once again ready to rock. With founding members and Byron-based sisters Morgan and Mercedes Lander still in the lineup, Kittie recently signed a three-record deal with E1 Music.

TRAFFIC delays can be expected on the A59 between Sawley and Gisburn this weekend due to a three-day music festival that kicks off on Friday.

Slipknot and Metallica are frontrunners for this year's Kerrang! Awards. Between them the two metal acts have 11 nominations - six for the masked band and five for Metallica - at the rock magazine bash to be held in August.

The High Court ordered the Military Advocate General on Wednesday to file harsher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who ordered a soldier to shoot a rubber-coated metal bullet at a bound Palestinian.

Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer says he wrote his new book, "Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top," in order "to be entertaining, but at the same to...help people." Kramer tells Billboard.com that "Hit Hard," which publishes today , is the result of a four-year process with writers William Patrick and Keith Garde.

JUDAS PRIEST Singer On 'British Steel': 'It's An Important Record For The Genre Of Heavy Metal' - June 24, 2009 Greg Prato of RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist Rob Halford of British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST .

Heavy metal band Kittie have signed a worldwide deal with E1 Music and will release three albums through the label.

Head bangers, rejoice: thrash metal titans Slayer have announced that their ninth studio album, World Painted Blood , will be released late this summer.

With metal fans gathering across Europe for the epic Sonisphere tour, the organizers now present the unique Sonisphere souvenir USB wristband, offering fans the ultimate collection of content from the festival.

Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA 's June 24, 2009 concert in Rome, Italy a ' including clips of pre-show meet-and-greets, tuning-room jams and the actual performances a ' can be viewed below.

Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA 's June 22, 2009 concert in Milan, Italy a ' including clips of pre-show meet-and-greets, tuning-room jams and the actual performances a ' can be viewed below.

Two years ago, Michel Langevin thought - even hoped - that his band, Voivod, was finished.

1977 - Elvis Presley played his final concert at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis.

RATT. Take a look at the roster of bands for Saturday's KGGO Summerjam at Water Works Park, and you'll find bands full of nomadic musicians who have been part of a larger musical landscape than you might expect.

A train conductor killed Wednesday night when he became caught between the last car he was riding and a scrap metal pile at Progress Rail yard here has been identifed as Dustin Moles, 33, of Southside, Marshall County Coroner Marlon Killion said this afternoon.

Slayer and Megadeth's long-awaited and much-ballyhooed Canadian Carnage tour -- currently rolling through the west -- might live up to its violent billing onstage, but don't expect any hostilities behind the scenes.

It's summer movie business as usual with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - a 149-minute piece of overkill so unvarying in its frenzied hysteria that it makes director Michael Bay's other efforts, like "Bad Boys" and "Armageddon," look like "My Dinner With Andre." Approaching the resplendent incoherence of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ...

Music legend Phil Spector is hoping for an iPod and a TV after being moved to a "sensitive needs facility" to serve his jail sentence for murdering an actress.

Cashed-up junior gold mining hopeful Catalpa Resources plans to take advantage of the buoyant gold price by merging with its largest shareholder to create a mid-tier producer of the precious metal.