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"We had an extra day in the studio, and we didn't know what to do. We were sitting around, and our drummer Garrett said, 'Why not just record 'Slave to the Grind?'" Age of Evil singer and guitarist Jeremy Goldberg explained to Noisecreep about the decision to record the Skid Row classic...

The last thing you'd expect the longtime bassist of Floridian death metal institution Obituary and the bassist of evil-as-hell Norwegian black metalists Gorgoroth to be is a former mortgage broker. But Frank Watkins was exactly that. "I had a mortgage company for a while and mortgages went out the window in America and it's all corporate," Watkins told Noisecreep...

It isn't that 'Big Four Tour' we've all been hearing rumors about, but it's close enough. And its not going down in the states, but at least its happening on the same planet. For the first time in history, thrash's Big Four, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, will share the same stage...

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford currently has 13 T-shirt designs available from Metal God Apparel, and he has plans to expand the line beyond shirts, very possibly into leather pants and biker jackets. But one thing fans probably won't ever find on the site is the glittery silver cape he took the stage wearing on Judas Priest's 2008 tour for 'Nostradamus...

American black metal maestros Absu have had a hell of a year. After emerging from the shadows in early 2007 with several live and split releases, main man Proscriptor assembled a crack team of musicians to complete a new Absu lineup and in 2009 and unleashed an unholy beast of an album upon their eager fans...

The new year will mark the 30th anniversary of one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time, Judas Priest's brazen, majestic 'British Steel.' The band commemorated the coming event by playing the entire album on its 2009 North American headlining tour, which ran from June to August...

One of the more interesting Christmas Albums this holiday season is 'Halford III -- Winter Songs,' a collection of classic Christmas tunes and originals by metal god Rob Halford and his team of busy elves (guitarists Roy Z and 'Metal' Mike Chlasciak, drummer Bobby Jarzombek and bassist Mike Davis)...

Drumroll, please! The 52nd annual Grammy nominees have been announced, and the Best Metal Performance category contains absolutely no surprises -- except, perhaps, for the exclusions that we could argue until we're blue in the face about, so let's not even go there...

Everyone knows multifaceted metal icon Rob Halford has launched a clothing line, Metal God Apparel, and has a new Christmas album out, 'Winter Songs.' But who knew the music industry veteran has been throwing around the idea of working on a black metal side project with ex-Emperor vocalist and guitarist Ihsahn...

Rob Halford and his band Halford just released 'Winter Songs,' an album of traditional Christmas tunes in addition to some original songs, and the solo album is his first in well over seven years. Holiday music isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when Rob Halford is mentioned...