Skeletonwitch

At a Skeletonwitch show -- it now being the band's seventh year bringing their blackened thrash attack across America and beyond -- don't be surprised to see guitarist Scott Hedrick hanging out in front of the club with fans and friends alike before thrashing whatever audience that is in whatever city it is on whatever night tonight shortly thereafter...

After much speculation and hearsay about its future, the formerly summer-long Ozzfest tour will return, albeit in limited capacity, in August. Despite not being a cross-country, two-month event as it once was, the tour will obviously be that much more special since it's playing select cities...

Prosthetic Records started with a seven inch and founder EJ Johantgen's ambition. After "seeing how major labels didn't care and continued to f--- up metal, and music in general," Johantgen put thought into action and the Los Angeles-based label was born...

Delilah's, tucked in the Lakeview neighborhood in northern Chicago, is a 16-year-old watering hole, established by owner Mike Miller to deliver the "anti-boring." On the first Tuesday of each month, Delilah's offers The Metal Shop, the city's longest-running DJ event, hosted and produced by music industry vet Ron Platzer, pictured above right, flanked by Guest DJ and Terror vocalist Sco

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...

It's been two years since Children of Bodom have issued an album's worth of new material, and now, word is the band will soon return to the studio to track the follow-up to 2008's 'Blooddrunk.' According to reports, bassist Henkka Seppälä says the band is plugging away on the new disc as we speak. "It is...

South by Southwest is where the party is at every spring in Austin, Texas. This year, hordes of bands will play on over 80 stages during the music festival. The uber-popular Web site BrooklynVegan will host a special showcase during the event on March 17 featuring bands like Califone and Serena Maneesh...

"We almost didn't make our flight. I'm sick. You're sick. Now we're caught up," Doomriders frontman and guitarist Nate Newton said, getting the band reacquainted with Atlanta, a place the band hadn't played in almost four years. The Feb. 10 show at The Masquerade marked only a handful of shows the Boston band has been able to play since the release of their sophomore long player, 'Darkn

Having toured pretty much nonstop since the February 2009 release of their latest album, 'Evisceration Plague,' Cannibal Corpse are taking a well-deserved rest when they return from their current South American tour on Feb. 21. Then they'll start working on some new songs for their next record, and before you know it, they'll be back on another North American headline tour...

Lawyers representing heavy metal label Prosthetic Records, home to acts such as All That Remains, Gojira, Kylesa, Skeletonwitch, Through the Eyes of the Dead and Withered, filed a lawsuit against label Razor & Tie last week in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, alleging that the latter breached the terms of a distribution deal it had with Prosthetic. ...