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They really don't. "We don't mind the metal tag. Metal is f---ing fine," bassist Stephen Tanner told Noisecreep. It wasn't until the band reformed in 2006 after an eight-year break up that the members of Harvey Milk heard their band referred to as metal...

"Being a metalhead at Berklee is not easy for sure," newly minted White Wizzard drummer Giovanni Durst -- who is no relation to Limp Bizkit's Fred, that's for sure -- told Noisecreep about being a metal musician at the prestigious Boston institution...

Heavy Metal Karaoke, which will establish a two-month residency in Hollywood and Las Vegas beginning in January, is meant to be fun, with Ozzy Osbourne bassist Blasko and his buddies (like Prong's Tommy Victor) performing as the house band while aspiring vocalists can come sing their asses off to a live band, as opposed to a vocal track...

"When I grew up, I was a total black metalhead." Impious drummer Michael Norén tells Noisecreep, explaining the inclusion of Gorgoroth, Dissection and, perhaps, the Black Dahlia Murder on his 'Your iPod Is Showing' list. "The people living in the small community where I was born and raised -- 72 inhabitants to this day -- miles away from civilization, were scared to death of me. Es

The last thing you'd expect the longtime bassist of Floridian death metal institution Obituary and the bassist of evil-as-hell Norwegian black metalists Gorgoroth to be is a former mortgage broker. But Frank Watkins was exactly that. "I had a mortgage company for a while and mortgages went out the window in America and it's all corporate," Watkins told Noisecreep...

"The metal today, some bands are doing it well," Age of Evil frontman Jeremy Goldberg said to Noiscreep. "Some of it is cookie monster and stuff like that. I think, for us, it's important for us to stay away from that and stay true to the roots...

It isn't that 'Big Four Tour' we've all been hearing rumors about, but it's close enough. And its not going down in the states, but at least its happening on the same planet. For the first time in history, thrash's Big Four, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, will share the same stage...

As if the legendary re-pairing of Slayer and Megadeth for the upcoming American Carnage tour wasn't enough, the new year will bring yet another killer concert lineup for thrash masters Slayer when they join Metallica, Anthrax and Mastodon at Sonisphere 2010 in Poland next summer...

Boasting a tone heavier than bricks, a throaty scream gravelly as a rock quarry and a collective résumé tagging Screams of Erida, the Acacia Strain, Seeker Destroyer, and Buckhunter, New England's Martyrs and Madmen have not only completed recording the band's debut EP, 'Humanimals,' they've made the effort available streaming online . It probably ...

Ah, with December comes those year-end, top 10 lists. Decibel Magazine isn't just offering it's top 10 of '09. The magazine staff compiled its top 100 of the '00s! Seems like just yesterday we were all fearing the Y2K problem! Time flies, doesn't it...