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Canada's the Great Sabatini blend sludge and grindcore into an angry, blazing ball of rocking metal, with the roaring noise worship of Today Is the Day and Unsane. They claim influence from '70s bands like Black Sabbath, King Crimson and Captain Beyond...

Six days after the death of one of metal's greatest legends, Ronnie James Dio, tributes were still flooding onto Internet sites, bootleg videos were being posted on YouTube and fans were recalling their favorite albums, songs and bands that Dio was a part of...

A public memorial service for the late, great Ronnie James Dio will be take place on Sunday, May 30 at 2 PM in Los Angeles at the Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills. The exact address is 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, Calif...

The metal world lost a legend on Sunday when Ronnie James Dio succumbed to his battle with cancer. As someone so succinctly posted on my Facebook page, Dio and Type O Negative's Peter Steele are up in heaven with Dimebag Darrell throwing one hell of a heavy metal party...

When Wendy Dio, manager and wife of metal legend Ronnie James Ronnie James Dio, confirmed at 3PM EST on May 16 that her husband had died of stomach cancer, the news was especially shocking. Dio had been diagnosed with the condition less than six months earlier, and on May 4, after his current group, Heaven & Hell, canceled all of its summer tour dates so he could continue receiving treatment,

Considering the tumultuous histories and chemical indulgences of your average doom metal band, it's amazing that so many of them are still alive and kicking decades after they first got together. Think Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Cathedral, Trouble and Paradise Lost, among others...

Last week was a somber one at ''Creep Show' central. It started well enough with the booking of one of our favorite metal vocalists, Armored Saint and Anthrax vocalist John Bush, but it spiraled into the abyss on April 15 when we learned that iconoclastic metal frontman Peter Steele of Type O Negative had died from heart failure at age 48...

Carl Porcaro and Chris Skowronski of Killing Time have joined forces with Uppercut vocalist Steve Murphy for a doomy side band dubbed Kings Destroy, which are storming forth out of the mean streets of Brooklyn. They're more like Yob or the Melvins than they are like Killing Time...

The status of Ozzfest may be up in the air right now, but the formerly annual tour was a breeding ground and one-stop shop for the best, brightest and oftentimes most fleeting acts in metal. The fest's alumni list reads like a 'Who's Who' of hard rock, with everyone from Black Sabbath to Queens of the Stone Age to System of a Down to Meshuggah to Hatebreed (known for inciting circle pits around

Your first question might be: Why have a Hard Rock Hall of Fame when there is already the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame? Well, for one, while we love her, Madonna -- a pop star, not a rock star -- was inducted in the the Rock Hall, something that many dyed-in-the-wool rockers were appalled about...