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A young father-of-three is learning to walk again after a terrifying battle with the deadly flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis.

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Shot in just seven days for a measly $100,000, the 1987 Canadian heavy-metal horror classic Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare seems to have had the bulk of its budget earmarked for star Jon Mikl Thor 's hairspray, mascara and body oil requirements.

Dear Phil Anselmo, Why must you persist with trying to make music? Let's just get one thing straight before we get to talking about your new single, "Usurper's Bastard Rant" -- Pantera was awesome.

The lawyer for a California heavy metal singer accused of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife says the singer's mind has been ravaged by steroid use.

Singer Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying during a concert at the Huxleys on November 7, 2012, in Berlin.

After more than 30 years as rock music's biggest bad boys, after selling more than 30 million albums, Motley Crue can see the finish line, bassist Nikki Sixx says.

If you accidentally make your live blog URL state that it's day two of Cannes rather than day three, you can't actually change that On to tomorrow, when the arthouse favourite will be Like Father, Like Son from director Hirokazu Kore-Eda, whose last film, I Wish , got a five star review from Peter Bradshaw.

The Roots of the band go way back to 1985 with guitarist/song-writer John Schaffer.

"It's not just a pickup, it's a weapon of tonal Armageddon," says the company in a news release issued today.

But if reality television wasn't proof enough, the financial crisis should put the lie to this intellectual narcissism.

The girls who rob Paris are more popular than the girls who rob France and Metallica's Lars Ulrich is uncannily like a Teletubby in the first instalment of our Cannes Film Festival diary.

In her inaugural Scene & Heard column, Sharon Swart navigates the wet red carpet to find Baz Luhrmann, Brian Grazer and attorney Mickey Mayerson, who says: "I've never seen it this busy." If water equals prosperity in Feng Shui, then the rain bucketing down in Cannes on opening eve could be a sign of a lucrative market ahead.

Motley Crue is launching their short U.S. spring tour. The band has eight dates scheduled over the next two weeks, including a two-night stand in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on May 20th and 21st.

Website: http://afflictedbydesign.com/ The Austin-based industrial rock outfit Afflicted By Design releases its first EP, #nameless , on May 14, 2013.

You were waiting for the new Vampire Weekend album to drop when you heard about the death of Jeff Hanneman, one of Slayer's founding members.

Comprised of veteran bass player Mat Sinner and former Gamma Ray frontman Ralph Scheepers and some top-notch German players, these guys established themselves quickly in the Metal world with their strait up Power Metal onslaught.

Death has always been one of the most predominant themes in heavy metal music, taking a backseat maybe only to Satanism.

The plethora of Earth doomsday movies this season shows us all kinds of landscapes of a far future post-Armageddon. Because the Manhattan skyline is so iconic, New York City is often the backdrop for these implausible imaginary futures.