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Inside Lamb of God's "Wrath": Metal Band Unleash Straight-Up Thrash on New Album | ARTICLE

2008 was meant to be the year Virginia metal band Lamb of God learned the importance of being idle. After pumping out four studio albums since 2000 and filling the gaps with seemingly endless touring, the members...
January 26, 2009 2:21 PM ET
Sneak Peek: "Guitar Hero: Metallica" Offers Deep Cuts and Lifelike Band, But No Cliff Burton | ARTICLE

There is a video clip in Guitar Hero: Metallica of Lars Ulrich performing on a silent drum set while covered in motion-capture equipment. He's playing a song Metallica haven't played in more than a decade, and he...
January 22, 2009 12:31 PM ET
Staind's Aaron Lewis Says Next Solo Album Channels Portishead | ARTICLE

After releasing The Illusion of Progress last summer, Staind frontman Aaron Lewis is taking a short breather to return to how he spent most of 2007 — as a solo performer, with a half-dozen gigs...
January 6, 2009 11:40 AM ET
"Chinese Democracy" Hits Best Buys in New York With a Yawn | ARTICLE

Guns n' Roses fans expecting to be met with pyro, a giant inflatable Axl Rose — or at least Chinese Democracy blaring from the sound system — were in for a surprise when the anxiously...
November 24, 2008 11:49 AM ET
Album Preview: Mudvayne Reinvents Itself, Says Nu-Metal Will Be Back | ARTICLE

When Mudvayne releases its fourth studio album The New Game in November, the record will be new to fans but a year and a half old for the band. Having the tour for its previous record and...
October 23, 2008 1:42 PM ET
Ben Folds Five Reunion: "The Chemistry Is Back" | ARTICLE

When MySpace asked Ben Folds to be the first performer in the site's new "Front to Back" series, they wanted him to play The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, the final album from his defunct band Ben...
September 18, 2008 12:17 PM ET
Brian Eno's Mutating "Spore" Score Reinventing Game Music | ARTICLE

With games like Grand Theft Auto, Rock Band and Guitar Hero tripping over each other to license as much music as possible, at least one eagerly anticipated game is going in the opposite direction. When playing Spore,...
September 12, 2008 5:12 PM ET
Nikki Sixx: "Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers Are Not Rock & Roll" | ARTICLE

Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx is clean and sober these days — and taking a prominent position as a spokesman for National Recovery Month — but if he doesn't think something is rock & roll, he'll still make...
September 11, 2008 6:10 PM ET
Exclusive: "Guitar Hero World Tour" Adds Songs by Steve Miller, Wings, Rise Against | ARTICLE

Guitar Hero World Tour has already revealed an intimidating track list, and today Rock Daily can unveil another nine songs that will be included in the franchise's latest offering. With a mix of the hyper-technical (Dream Theater),...
September 10, 2008 2:30 PM ET
Tricky's First American Show in Seven Years Full of Rage, Smoke | ARTICLE

The one guy in the Fillmore East most blatantly disobeying New York's smoking ordinances also happened to be the one with the most lights pointed at him. For his whole career, Tricky has always assumed one of...
September 8, 2008 5:53 PM ET
Jack Osbourne: "'The Osbournes' Discredited Who My Father Is" | ARTICLE

The last time Ozzy Osbourne hit the screen, it was as the perpetual punchline on The Osbournes, the MTV series that lasted four seasons and made Ozzy and his family the finest and funniest televised counterpoint to...
August 25, 2008 4:50 PM ET
Metallica's New Single "The Day That Never Comes": First Review | ARTICLE

After premiering a new song from Death Magnetic called "Cyanide" during their Ozzfest set, today Metallica.com posted a trashcan-fidelity stream of "The Day That Never Comes," the official first single from the album. The eight-minute...
August 21, 2008 2:58 PM ET
Staind's Aaron Lewis: "I've Always Been Pigeonholed As Dark" | ARTICLE

As the election looms and promises of change are rampant, an album called The Illusion of Progress may seem particularly cynical. Over several cigarettes and the remnants of a joint in a Manhattan office building,...
August 21, 2008 8:32 AM ET
Serj Tankian: "We Haven't Decided If the Future Contains System or Not" | ARTICLE

Ten months after releasing Elect the Dead, his solo debut, System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian isn't taking time to look back. After settling into the role of sole songwriter and the name on...
August 14, 2008 5:39 PM ET
New Guns n' Roses Leak: "Shackler's Revenge" | ARTICLE

After a mess of leaked GN'R tracks popped up a few months back, another new cut has apparently popped up online. "Shackler's Revenge" (which was supposed to have its premiere on the upcoming sequel to the video...
August 14, 2008 2:08 PM ET
Jonathan Davis Talks Solo LP, Future of Korn: "I'm Waving the Flag for Musicianship" | ARTICLE

With Korn on ice for the time being — save for a rendition of "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" on yet another reissue of the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack — frontman Jonathan Davis has turned his focus towards...
August 13, 2008 2:26 PM ET
Jonathan Davis, Serj Tankian Remember Dimebag at Ozzfest | ARTICLE

When Pantera and Damageplan guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was killed onstage at an Ohio concert in 2004, friends and admirers were quick to note that he wasn't just a martyr who was only appreciated after his demise,...
August 12, 2008 1:49 PM ET
Along Came A Spider | ALBUM REVIEW

At 60, Alice Cooper is still as brutal as ever: Along Came a Spider, his new concept album, finds him singing from the perspective of a serial killer named Spider, who wraps his eight victims in silk...
August 12, 2008 12:00 AM ET
Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Judas Priest Prove Their Metal Mastery on Long Island | ARTICLE

When two of the singers who most define the genre are in the house, calling a tour featuring Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Motorhead the "Metal Masters Tour" doesn't have even a hint of hyperbole. The ashen skies...
August 11, 2008 3:38 PM ET
The Sword Close Out Ozzfest 2008's Eclectic Second Stage | ARTICLE

The high only hit 102 degrees on Saturday, making for a relatively mild Texas afternoon at Ozzfest's second stage. Adopting Warped Tour's model of switching the action between two stages (one dedicated to Texas bands) to ...
August 11, 2008 9:55 AM ET