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Mike Alexander, bassist for English thrash metal outfit Evile, has died unexpectedly while the band was on the road in Europe with Amon Amarth. According to a statement from the band's label, Alexander, who died on Oct. 5, took ill suddenly and was rushed to a hospital in Lulea, Sweden, where he was pronounced dead...

Jasmin St. Claire is a metalheads's wet dream, and we're not speaking quite so literally, given her former profession. The voluptuous brunette has been a porn star, a wrestling manager, a wrestler and is a lifelong metalhead -- which above all, is her first and truest love...

Man, last night, the sky over Manhattan was truly metal. Sort of like the cover of an Amon Amarth album, minus the Viking pirates. Violent lightning bolts danced across the heavens, and the stinging rain pounded the pavement, slowly flooding the littered streets...

Where there's metal, there's blood. Bloodstock Open Air, that is – held annually at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. This year, the festival runs August 14-16. Bands like Saxon and Carcass will mix with the likes of Cradle of Filth, WOLF, Girlschool and Snakebite. Bloo...

Open any hard rock publication these days and you'd be hard-pressed to not see some kind of coverage on a death metal band. The once vilified genre is everywhere these days. Not only are Job For A Cowboy t-shirts flying off the shelves at your local Hot Topic, a recent episode of Fox TV's 'Bones' based an entire storyline around a fictional Norwegian death metal band...

Attention, Viking Metal Horde. Cease the pillaging. Put down the battle axe. Rejoice over the fact that Amon Amarth's hard-to-find, early releases have been reissued, with a twist. "Our record sales have nearly doubled over the last three releases, and the old releases are hard to find, so we decided to re-releases the first four Metal Blade albums and to do some remastering," Amon Amart

"We go on the show and act ridiculous but we are also legit metal fans," Don Jamieson, co-host of VH1 Classic's 'That Metal Show' says. He and Jim Florentine are serious, serious metal fans and told Noisecreep about their favorite metallers...