Alice in Chains

As they get older, they get better! Aussie legends AC/DC picked up the Grammy statue for 'War Machine' from 'Black Ice' for Best Hard Rock Performance, beating out the likes of Nickelback, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park and Metallica. No one from the band was there to pick up the Grammy award, but we're sure that Brian Johnson, Angus Young and company are celebrating in their knickers...

Chances are you haven't heard of progressive rockers Creature With the Atom Brain before, and there's a reason for that. The band is from Belgium, and they've never really had a chance to expose their music to American audiences. But that's about to change soon...

It's not every day you see K.K. Downing and Kerry King sitting in the same room as Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga. But Jan. 31, the 52nd annual Grammy Awards will bring out some of the biggest legends in hard rock and heavy metal, including nominees AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Slayer and Judas Priest...

"I'm not expecting to win," Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney told Noisecreep about his band's seventh overall nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance, this time for 'Check My Brain' from 'Black Gives Way to Blue.' Kinney further insisted, "We're zero and six, and I am expecting to be zero and seven...

The video for Alice in Chains' delightfully glum 'Your Decision,' easily one of the most high-impact songs of their revitalized career, is quite of the flesh. It features characters in the thick of hedonistic pursuits, such as fetish sex, where someone brandishes an S&M whip, men gorging on big banquets of food with a beautiful woman as the table's centerpiece and masked characters. It... Rea

"Metal music and comics are the choice of escapists everywhere," artist Tim Bradstreet, who got his start designing role-playing games before breaking into sequential art and then covers for comics, told Noisecreep. "And not just the fans, but the musicians themselves, from the Ramones to Monster Magnet to Rob Zombie...

It seems they don't call Unearth bassist John 'Slo' Maggard 'Slo' for nothing. The cardinal rule of 'Your iPod is Showing' is no cheating. Guilty pleasures and fluke embarrassments are just as revealing to us as cult favorites and credibility markers...

Burn Halo is a straight ahead rock 'n' roll band. Still, the members of Burn Halo love music of all genres and spent a lot of 2009 listening to diverse albums while driving across the country on tour. For fans and musicians alike, 2009 was an interesting year in music...

Looking back on 2009, Adelitas Way singer Rick DeJesus has so many unforgettable moments that he can't define the year with just one. "The first night we were on tour with Breaking Benjamin, playing in front of 5,000 people -- that was incredible," says DeJesus...

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...