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For about five years, Decibel magazine Editor-in-Chief Albert Mudrian and his staff of writers collected the stories behind metal's genre-defining landmark albums through the publication's 'Hall of Fame' interview series. Now, the best stories have been compiled into the book 'Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces' (DaCapo Press)...

In This Moment have just released their latest single, a cover of Blondie's classic 'Call Me,' which appears on the 'Ultra-Violet' reissue of their second album, 'The Dream.' The U-V edition is in stores now, so accordingly, we asked very blond vocalist Maria Brink, who was knee deep in this summer's Warped Tour, what are her favorite metal covers are...

Check your sources. It's one of those rules you abide by when you're a journalist, charged with dispensing information for mass consumption. Anyone can regurgitate false information, but taking that extra step to ensure such information is accurate ...

To Geezer Butler, the legendary bassist from Black Sabbath, the formation of the band Heaven & Hell was unplanned. So he and his band members -- singer Ronnie James Dio, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Vinny Appice -- are taking their career in stride, including the follow-up to 2009's 'The Devil You Know.' "W...

On Friday, we were in Camden, N.J., all afternoon, for the Rockstar Mayhem tour. But being members of the illustrious fourth estate, we spent much of our time backstage. While you were out there watching the bands slay, or perusing glass pipes and T-shirts with cuss words emblazoned across 'em, the real action was happening behind the scenes...

The second participant (i.e. victim) for our new column, 'Your iPod Is Showing,' is Dimmu Borgir guitarist Silenoz. One of the most commercially successful Norwegian black metal bands, Dimmu play pummeling songs suffused with enticing melodies and Wagnerian keyboard swells...

Everyone's got that one band that started them down the left-hand path of enlightenment, to their ultimate heavy metal nirvana. For some people, it was Kiss; for others, Black Sabbath. The times, they are a-changing, and nowadays it very well may be a band like Shadows Fall or Mastodon that lures the young folk in and teaches them the ways of the riff...

We're typing slower than usual today, thanks to a little skateboarding accident we were involved in yesterday. Today, it feels like we were caught in a Hatebreed moshpit for ten hours. We were coasting down 8th Avenue on our longboard when a delivery truck cut us off and slammed on its brakes...

If you love heavy metal like we do, then you've come to the right place. And if you're looking for the latest metal news, look no further. This is White Noise, where we round up all of the news that rules each and every morning ... save for the weekends...

We're inching closer and closer to the weekend. Just two more days to go. We can't wait for a couple of days off after what's been a rather hectic week here at Noisecreep. We're still trying to make sense of Anthrax's split with singer Dan Nelson...