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Among the many mighty metal milestones of 2012, the 30th birthday of Metal Blade Records stands as an amazing testament to the strength of metal devotion. Label founder Brian Slagel became a businessman almost by accident.

Metal legends Voivod have signed to Century Media. The leaders of Quebecois progressive metal will drop Target Earth on Jan. 22 of next year, which will mark the start of the band's 30th anniversary celebration. Voivod were founded in January 1983, so this times up perfectly ...

Eddie Trunk has taken to his website to announce the slate of guests for the upcoming 11th season of his popular Vh1 Classic series "That Metal Show." The season kicks off with two episodes filmed back in March, and joining Trunk for the Aug...

eBay.com (2) Metal compilations have been pumped out in extraordinary numbers since around 1980, but few are worth paying for and listening to regularly. K-Tel put out a comp of mainstream metal called Masters of Metal, a pointless collection of stuff you could find at any Kmart store: KISS, Scorpions, Y&T. Th...

Get out your Aqua Net because it will look and sound a lot like the '80s again this May in Columbia, Md. M3 Rock Festival will return for a fourth year to Merriweather Post Pavilion on May 11 and 12, featuring 19 bands on two stages. The lineup includes Ratt, Cinderella, Stryper, Night Ranger, Kix, Enuff ZʼNuff, In the Pink, Let There Be Rock, Queensryche, Skid Row, Warrant, Quiet Riot, Dokken,

Can it be? A glam metal band collaborating with a former member of Nirvana? Well, it's true. Ratt's Stephen Pearcy (vocals) and Warren DeMartini (guitar) are working with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, and the unlikely trio just finished recording a new song...

Here at Noisecreep, we love a good old-fashioned slugfest. Luckily, there never seems to be a shortage of them in the world of hard rock. One of the common battles we come across covering this kind of music are the legal disputes over band names...

Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby passed away nine years ago this month from a heroin overdose. Prior to his death, the 42-year old had battled addiction for many years, contracting HIV and eventually full-blown AIDS as a result of his drug use...

He may be four decades into his career, but Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy isn't showing any signs of slowing down. "Playing music for a living is a dream come true for me, so I don't look at any of this as work," said Pearcy during a chat with Noisecreep last week...

The older an artist gets, the more hazardous to their health rocking out onstage tends to be. Stephen Pearcy, the vocalist for hair metal pioneers Ratt has suffered a hernia and will undergo emergency surgery this week. As a result, the band has canceled its European tour, which included shows at Sweden Rock, Sauna Open Air Festival, U...