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One of the perks of staging your own event is having the ability to drop in on your favorite bands during the festivities, and that's exactly what Metallica's Kirk Hammett did at the inaugural Fear FestEvil horror and music event in San Francisco.

Insane tour alert! U.S. metal junkies, this is a bill you won't want to miss. Slayer have just announced a May tour with fellow thrash legends Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus.

Exodus are one of metal's elite thrash bands and still rip it up today. Crowds at thrash shows are some of the most exciting and genuine, never ceasing movement in the pit. Here, they were instructed to stop moving, but only to set up something better.

"I was standing on Gary's side of the stage at a Slayer show in San Bernadino and I saw this incredible thing happening that really freaked me out," producer Ross Robinson tells Noisecreep. "This fire, energy and wisdom," says the man behind albums by the likes of Slipknot, Korn and Deftones...

They say that the apple doesn't fall... oh, screw it! In my daily search of new music and talking with record label publicists, I've noticed that there are a lot of bands featuring the offspring of famous rock musicians. It can't be easy to carve your own niche in this business when your dad has already sold millions of albums, so it takes a a ton of courage for these musicians to go out there and

Slayer just released a letter to their fans updating them on the health status of guitarist Jeff Hanneman. In early 2011, the 48-year-old contracted necrotizing fasciitis -- a rare infection that attacks the skin and tissue -- after being bit by a spider...

Without the Bay Area thrash scene of the mid-to-late '80s, heavy metal wouldn't be what it is today. Back when MTV and Sunset Strip-flavored hard rock ruled the airwaves, a small yet dedicated community of San Franciscan metalheads helped ignite a musical scene that would eventually influence a generation of musicians throughout the world...

Metallica legend Kirk Hammett joined his former Exodus bandmates on stage at the Oakland Metro Operahouse last Saturday night (Feb. 4). The special night was dubbed 'Bonded by Baloff: A Decade of Remembrance' in honor of original Exodus frontman Paul Baloff, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 41 after suffering a stroke...

The folks at Scion A/V keep pushing their crusade to help spread the word on independent metal throughout the web. In their latest endeavor, the company is rolling out a monthly event in Los Angeles called the 'Scion Label Showcase' where they feature a label and host live show for some of its artists...

Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O'Brien has been tapped to fill in for Exodus' Gary Holt when Holt leaves Slayer's European tour to play with his own band at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile. Holt has been filling in for Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman since the tour kicked off on February 26th in Australia...