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Ashley Maile Positivity and a hopeful outlook have always been a standing theme for the hard rockers of Alter Bridge. However, things take a darker turn and get heavier than the band did in either previous full-length on their newest album, 'AB III...

After an absence of more than a decade, Sunset Strip pioneers Ratt are back with vocalist Stephen Pearcy and hoping to tear up the scene once again. They recently released 'Infestation,' their first album since 1999's ill-fated 'Ratt' -- and it's the heaviest and angriest they've sounded since 1984's career-launching 'Out of the Cellar,' which featured the radio hit 'Round and Round...

Metallica took a lot of heat for the sound and direction of their 2003 album 'St. Anger.' A lot of people complained about the drum sound and the stripped-down songwriting approach, but the guys in Stygian beg to differ. The Pennsylvania combo started out playing Metallica covers over a decade ago and cite the legends as one of their prime influences...

Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy has become a voice for icons in the last couple of years, singing a song on Slash's upcoming self-titled solo album, and even more famously being brought in during rehearsals to work with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham when the threesome thought of carrying on sans Robert Plant...

By March, former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver axeman Slash will have his first solo album in stores, and according to one person who has heard material from the LP, "this album is going to be huge." When Slash initially revealed his plans to release a solo album, the first question fans wondered was who'd handle vocals on the disc...

Maybe the most surprised people on the planet when Chickenfoot -- the band featuring former Van Halen boys Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, as well as Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith -- entered the Billboard top 200 in the top five was Chickenfoot themselves...

For one of the most popular bands of the last decade, Creed sure didn't get a lot of respect in their first go-round. However, none of that mattered to the 10,000 or so fans that packed the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. to see the band on their comeback tour...

Selling 35 million records is nothing to sneeze at. The music industry and the way records are sold have changed dramatically since the mega-platinum Florida band Creed split in 2004 after the release of 'Weathered.' There is no denying the band's reunion tour and new album 'Full Circle' will inspire tons of Creed diehards to tailgate in the parking lot while waiting for the band to perform this s