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If you met Melissa Cross -- she's tiny, boasts a mop of red curls and glasses -- you'd never guess she's one of the key reasons you favorite metal vocalist isn't destroying his (or her) larynx. Cross, who released the 'Zen of Screaming' and 'Zen of Screaming 2' instructional DVDs, is a longtime artisan who just so happened to fall into the career of coaching growlers...

Chuck Biscuits, best known as the drummer on the first four Danzig albums, succumbed to throat cancer on Oct. 24 at the age of 44. "In response to the inquiries, thank you for all the support," an anonymous family member wrote in an e-mail sent to fans early Oct...