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You'd be wise to bring an industrial-sized vat of Bengay or Icy Hot to the upcoming thrash tour that Warbringer find themselves on. The Los Angeles thrashers are hitting the road to thrash and pillage alongside Overkill, Vader and God Dethroned, with Evile and Woe of Tyrants in tow...

Florida-based death metal pioneers, Cannibal Corpse have announced their first headline shows since they played the Hot Topic stage on 2009's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. The tour will launch April 20 in Orlando, Fla. and run through May 16 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...

New Jersey's seasoned thrash warriors Overkill are getting ready to launch the North American Killfest Tour, which features Overkill, Vader, Warbringer and Evile. The tour starts in Philadelphia on April 1 and runs through April 30 in Springfield, Va...

"Bow down to the thrashers" is how Evile frontman Matt Drake started off the band's mighty set at New York City's Nokia Theater on March 6. For a band that hasn't even been around for a decade, they received an intense crowd response. As soon as lights hit the band, people literally ran from the merch area to the center of the venue...

Following a 12-year hiatus, Dutch technical death metal veterans, Pestilence, reformed in 2006 and now they're finally making it back to North America to tour for the first time in 16 years. The band will launch a 17-date trek with Warbringer, Vital Remains, Enfold Darkness and Sacrificial Slaughter, which starts May 30 in Baltimore and runs through June 17 in New York City...

Last year, New Jersey thrash band Overkill launched the Killfest tour in Europe with Exodus, Gamma Bomb and Torture Squad. Now they're taking the slaughter through North America with Vader, God Dethroned, Warbringer, Evile and Woe of Tyrants...

UPDATE: See our final list of the best metal songs of 2010. Here at Noisecreep, we like to stay ahead of the game. While 2010 is a nascent year -- it's only the middle of February, we know -- but we're going to keep track of the year's top songs from here through the end of December...

Over the past couple of years, countless '80s thrash bands, including Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Testament, Exodus and Overkill have experienced career resurgences and released some of their best material since before the dawn of grunge...

If you're a fan of thrash metal, by now you've probably seen the legendary Overkill '!!!F--- You!!!' T-shirt. The original 1987 version depicted an upraised middle finger, the newest edition features the band's bat skull logo atop a backdrop of the profanity...

East Coast thrashers Overkill return with 'Ironbound,' the 15th installment in their discography spanning two decades -- certainly more than an impressive career, especially for practitioners of an extreme form of music. Travis Smith from Seempieces, based on the opposite American coast -- who has done 'Immortalis,' 'Killbox' and 'Bloodletting' for the band before -- contributed his artistic talen