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Last week, the German police detained Jeremy Spencer, Zoltan Bathory and Matt Snell of Five Finger Death Punch while the band was en route to the country's Rock Am Ring Festival, which they were scheduled to play on June 4. The Munich Police Department alerted the Nuremberg Airport authorities, and a group of officers took the band members into custody for an alleged international weapons violatio

"Are you ready to make some memories?" Drowning Pool frontman Ryan McCombs screamed at the ever-growing crowd of kids in the pit at Rock on the Range. The Columbus, Ohio festival went down May 22 and 23 at the Crew Stadium -- an appropriately perfect venue for just the right mix of metal, mud and horrible tattoos...

Harley-Davidson's Paul James is the Director of Product Communications. In non-corporate speak, that means that he is there to get the word out about new bikes, products and services for those who live to ride and ride to live. In honor of Harley-Davidson's new lean and economical Forty-Eight bike, James gave Noisecreep the lowdown on new Harley models and that quintessential rock star/biker dude

Devildriver guitarist Jeffrey Kendrick has been given the honor of being nominated in the Best Shredder category for the eighth annual Metal Hammer Golden God awards. The axeman is in running against Zoltán Báthory (Five Finger Death Punch), Russ 'Satchel' Parrish (Steel Panther), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory) and Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity/Down). Who wins is ...

In the '70s and '80s there was a financial firm named EF Hutton (now part of Citigroup) that ran television commercials that took place in a noisy environment such as a conference room full of chattering people. One investor would be talking to a friend or colleague and say, "Well, my broker's EF Hutton, and EF Hutton says...

The good news is Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody's doing just fine. The bad news? Moody was involved in a minor car accident on Monday, which left him with some facial lacerations above and along the side of his right eye. Death Punch took to their Twitter profile soon after the crash and posted a picture of Moody's injuries along with it...

It's been three years since the release of Hellyeah's self-titled debut, and it'll be some months before the heavy metal supergroup -- featuring Mudvayne's Chad Gray and Greg Tribbett, Nothingface's Tom Maxwell, Damageplan's Bob Zilla and Pantera's Vinnie Paul -- issues the follow-up, which Paul is already saying will be heavier than its predecessor...

Godsmack will headline Kansas City Rockfest, North America's largest one-day music festival. This year the festival is scheduled for May 15 at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. Other bands slated to perform the fest include 3 Days Grace, Seether, Papa Roach, Drowning Pool, Rev Theory, Halestorm, Five Finger Death Punch, Airbourne, Janus, the Veer Union, Burn Halo, Adelitas Way, Shaman's Harvest

Want to put some metal back in your summer festival plans? Canada has the answer in Heavy MTL, a two-day festival in Parc Jean-Drapeau at Île Saint-Hélène, Montréal. Heavy MTL is set for July 24 and 25. Heavy MTL was first held in 2008, and organizers took a hiatus from the event in 2009. This year, Heavy MTL is b...

Mayhem Fest 2010 could be the event that defies the theory that two-thirds of the audience at summer festivals don't show up until after the first band has left the main stage. Indeed, Five Finger Death Punch could be as much of an attraction for this years Mayhem-goers as Lamb of God, and will likely appeal to fans of Korn -- if not Rob Zombie...