Metal News

Released: 1988 Genre: Heavy Metal, Glam Metal Label: Metal Magic Number Of Tracks: 10 It's hard to find this album anymore and a lot of you younger Pantera fans may have never heard of it.

Long Island-based hardcore/metal band THIS IS HELL has recorded a cover version of an as-yet-undisclosed PANTERA song for the forthcoming "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott tribute album.

It's not uncommon to hear terms like "heavy metal," "black metal," "death metal," and so on, misused and even abused by music listeners and especially by the mass media.

Metallica, Slayer and others are donating memorabilia to an upcoming charity auction to help a friend.

Maine Fast Fact : In 1853, Maine bought the rest of the land within its boundaries that was still owned by Massachusetts.

A foam rocket launcher, children's book and Batman and Wolverine action figures are among the most dangerous toys on store shelves, according to a consumer watchdog group.

VERMILION a ' Vermilion police are calling the shooting death of a man early this morning suspicious.

1987 - Assuming the identity of a country-rock group called The Dalton Brothers, U2 opened for itself during a concert in Los Angeles .

Albums by Metallica and The Clash's will appear on a new BBC Radio 1 series. BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe has chosen two of rock's leading lights as part of his new Masterpieces series.

Titans of metal Metallica are nearing their 29th year of providing brutal thrash for fans worldwide, but for the Michigan Metal Militia that descended on Grand Rapids' Van Andel Arena Monday night, it was barely noticeable.

According to Antenna , MESHUGGAH , MNEMIC , THE BURNING and ARTILLERY are among the acts who will perform at the next installment of the Danish Metal Awards , set to take place January 16, 2010 at Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA 's November 12, 2009 concert at Times Union Center in Albany, New York a ' including clips of the pre-show meet-and-greet and tuning-room jam as well as the actual performance a ' can be viewed below.

James Hetfield of Metallica performs during Monday's show at Van Andel Arena. View concert photo gallery .

EPICA frontwoman Simone Simons is among the guest vocalists who will participate in the second "Christmas Metal Symphony" show, set to take place on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 013, Tilburg, Holland.

"Creeping Death" by Metallica was a 3-song set released on October 17th, 1990. It features some of Metallica's earliest songs & covers.

The last week in late October, the tide in Germany's largest port of Hamburg was rising, much higher than last year.

It was a rockin' affair when the lead singer of Slipknot tied the knot Friday. Corey Taylor married Stephanie Luby at Las Vegas's Palms Hotel, where the wedding party walked down the aisle to Metallica's "For Whom The Bell Tolls." The 350 wedding guests who packed the hotel's Pearl Concert Theater - fitting since the wedding quickly turned into a ...

Slipknot's mix of grinding, post-Korn alternative metal, Marilyn Manson-esque neo-shock rock, and rap-metal helped make them one of the most popular bands in the so-called nu-metal explosion of the late '90s. But even more helpful was their theatrical, attention-grabbing image: the band always performed in identical industrial jump suits and ...

November 14, 2009: Rockers METALLICA are preparing to make history in Peru next year - with the biggest concert in the country's history.

Metallica is planning another DVD release. According to Blabbermouth.net, the band's Canadian concerts in Quebec City and Ottawa on October 31st, November 1st and November 3rd were professionally filmed by longtime Metallica video director Wayne Isham, with drummer Lars Ulrich telling the crowd from the stage at the second Quebec City show, "I ...