Metal News

You've got the new gaming PC, a wide, flat-screen display and all the energy drinks you'll need to get you through an online session of the futuristic first-person shooter game, "Red Faction: Guerrilla." But if you're still using the same $20 keyboard and mouse combo you've had for six years, you're missing out.

After surviving more than 300 physical attacks, two stabbing attempts, a live bullet posted through his door and a succession of vicious beatings that have left him mildly brain-damaged, Peter Tatchell must be one of the only people in the world who could still consider himself fortunate.

Most Christmas memories are good ones, but sometimes the holiday season can be traumatic as well -- especially for younger kids.

VICIOUS RUMORS axeman Geoff Thorpe and Doc Coyle of GOD FORBID were interviewed on the latest edition of Metal Rules! Radio .

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn and VOLBEAT guitarist/vocalist Micheal Poulsen will guest on this weekend's edition of Full Metal Jackie 's nationally syndicated radio show.

Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA 's December 12, 2009 concert at HP Pavilion in San Jose, California 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.

While recovering in a southwest suburban hospital, a man police called a 'psychotic killer' allegedly told officers he would have killed many more if not caught, and was then found to be hiding a knife in his hospital bed.

1964 - Sam Cooke's funeral was held in Chicago. 1971 - Jerry Lee Lewis divorced his cousin Myra Brown.

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Franciscan monk Cesare Bonizzi, 63, who 15 years ago turned from spiritual new age music to heavy metal and who has spent the last several years as the robe-clad lead singer of his own band, Fratello Metallo, announced his retirement in November after realizing, he said, that the devil had tempted him too much with celebrity and turned him away ...

Metallica frontman James Hetfield is donating 330 acres overlooking California's Lucas Valley for preservation as farmland.

Heavy metal's Big Four -- Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax -- will ride together in 2010.

WHIPLASH, AT WAR, DANGEROUS NEW MACHINE To Perform At Benefit Concert For Missing METALLICA Fan - Dec.

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax will play together for the first time in history, at the June 2010 Sonisphere festivals in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Jon Matsumoto of MercuryNews.com recently conducted an interview with METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo .

Official Metallica.com footage from METALLICA 's Decemebr 5, 2009 concert at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada 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.

NEVERMORE vocalist Warrel Dane and and GOD FORBID /ex- HIMSA guitarist Matt Wicklund will guest on the "Metal Shop" show this Saturday, December 12 at 11:00 p.m. PST on Seattle's 99.9 KISW FM radio station.

Wise men, figgy pudding and chestnuts roasting on an open fire probably aren't the first things that come to mind when you listen to songs like "Breaking The Law" and "Ram It Down," but the truth is the Metal God, Rob Halford , is chock full of the holiday spirit.

Fresh off a summer trek as one of the main stage attractions of the second annual Rock Star Energy Mayhem Fest, Killswitch Engage will take the show on the road beginning in February for a headline trek across the U.S., which is their first for this album.

Metallica might want to learn a thing or two from Green Day when it comes to Bay Area real estate.