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They're getting ready to enter the 25th year since the release of their debut album 'Feel the Fire,' but New Jersey thrash metal veterans Overkill aren't content to live in the past. On Feb. 9, the band will drop its 15th studio album, 'Ironbound,' on the metal masses...

About.com's Chad Bower has been a respectable voice in the metal music industry for two decades, so his top picks for the upcoming releases in 2010 are worth keeping an eye on. Many of his choices feature lineup changes in established bands throughout various metal subgenres...

Usually it takes a band a while to get to the point where they can grab a metal legend to join them in the studio. But Venezuelan-grown Noctis Imperium -- that up until recently was a solo studio project of Aeneas Inferno -- got Nick Barker of Dimmu Borgir/Cradle of Filth fame behind the kit through a shot-in-the-dark e-mail...

Winds of Plague vocalist Johnny Plague -- who works at Knotts Berry Farm's Knotts Scary Farm Halloween exhibit in Southern California, and claims to worship the holiday -- is a tried and true Halloween man. He loves the holiday and not just because of his day -- well, night -- gig, either...

The combination of Halloween and heavy metal is a beautiful match made in hell. And putting the two together is a no-brainer. Musicians have found endless inspiration from All Hallows Eve's dark imagery, so to help celebrate the ancient holiday, Noisecreep has put together a list of the top 10 metal Halloween songs...

Something happened a few years ago, and though it's impossible to pin point the exact moment the shift is undeniable, metal -- especially doom -- is getting is enjoy a new large fan base with younger kids and indie rock fans that crave the unique orchestrated riffs...

As some of the leaders of the new school of thrash metal, the boys in Athens, Ohio quintet Skeletonwitch play swift, staccato riffs and rapidfire beats colored with gargling death metal vocals and some epic, atmospheric rhythms reminiscent of the best Viking power metal...

Things are kinda of crazy in the Chrome Division camp right now. The band, featuring Dimmu Borgir vocalist Shagrath on rhythm guitar -- and ironically, Dimmu just booted two members rather dramatically from their ranks, so there's lot of unrest in the general Dimmu world right now, too -- has announced that longtime singer Eddie Guz is no longer fronting the band...

When Disney teen queen Demi Lovato went on national TV, talking about her love for metal, she name checked extreme acts like Job for a Cowboy and Abigail Williams. Most metalheads could have assumed Lovato was talking about the character in 'The Crucible,' from which the band borrows its name -- but she most certainly wasn't...

Attention, Massachusetts metalcore fans: There's a new Shadows Fall album coming out next week -- which explains what their vocalist Brian Fair was doing in the AOL studios for this week's ''Creep Show.' In addition to plugging the record, 'Retribution' -- the first to be issued on Shadows Fall's own Forever Black Industries label (with distribution through Ferret) -- Fair contributed greatly to t