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Part of a great summer music festival is the anticipation that builds around its tour lineup. While most of us are making it through the winter, the third annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival is preparing to unveil its entire cast on Jan. 20, just in time to warm us up...

Metalcore quintet Parkway Drive have plans to expand upon their 2009 DVD success with a new album in 2010. Released in August of last year, the Byron Bay, Australia band's 'The DVD' is a semi-documentary. It tells the story of the rise of the Aussie surfers with live footage from their 2008 'Sweatfest' tour, behind the scenes interviews with members (past and present) of the band, as well as test

The last few years, Kevin Lyman's Warped Tour has become more metal than your mother's kettle, so to speak. Rather than serve strictly as a platform for punk, ska and emo, Warped has become an all-inclusive affair, featuring bands like Underoath, the Devil Wears Prada, In This Moment and Killswitch Engage...

Now, here's a lineup no one expected. Killswitch Engage and the Devil Wears Prada will be taking to the road together in February for a 16-date run of shows. More dates are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Dark Tranquility are also on the bill...

Although the mainstream largely shunned heavy metal in the 1990s, the last decade found our music getting more attention that it's ever gotten. Some of the finest releases the music has ever had were released from 2000 to 2009 and shows like VH1's 'The Metal Show' have proved very successful in the ratings game...

Is Howard Jones out as Blood Has Been Shed's frontman? That's the rumor these days, given Burnt by the Sun frontman Mike Olender has been working with the band in recent weeks. Jones had told Noisecreep this spring that he would be involved in the album's creation, despite his demanding duties fronting Killswitch Engage...

The rumors usually start this same time each year, and the rumors almost always end up being true. When Ozzfest was the summer's biggest rock tour, the rumors would start in the fall and run through much of the winter. But, its still early so at this stage, any suggestion of any band being on this summer's Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival should be taken with a grain of salt...

Following their successful run on this summer's Rockstar Mayhem Fest with the likes of Slayer, Black Dahlia Murder, Killswitch Engage and Job For a Cowboy, Polish blackened death metallers Behemoth will be returning to North America in early 2010 for another run of gigs both in the states and in Canada...

"I have a couple different phones and a lot of emails," Hatebreed cherub-cheeked singer Jamey Jasta told Noisecreep about how he manages to be a singer in two bands (Kingdom of Sorrow is his other jaunt, in case you didn't know), juggle a myriad of guest appearances on other band's albums, father to a 10-year-old, serve as label owner and operate as a clothing entrepreneur of sorts... R

Everyone knows multifaceted metal icon Rob Halford has launched a clothing line, Metal God Apparel, and has a new Christmas album out, 'Winter Songs.' But who knew the music industry veteran has been throwing around the idea of working on a black metal side project with ex-Emperor vocalist and guitarist Ihsahn...