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Want to put some metal back in your summer festival plans? Canada has the answer in Heavy MTL, a two-day festival in Parc Jean-Drapeau at Île Saint-Hélène, Montréal. Heavy MTL is set for July 24 and 25. Heavy MTL was first held in 2008, and organizers took a hiatus from the event in 2009. This year, Heavy MTL is b...

Considering many modern metal fans came of age with Korn's 1996 album 'Life is Peachy,' it's not surprising that some are unfamiliar with the significant contributions made in the mid '90s by pioneering industrial metal band Fear Factory. Not only don't they know about the band's innovative combination of crushing death metal riffs with futuristic industrial samples, they're unaware that vocalis

It should come as no surprise that Cypress Hill's new album 'Rise Up,' which is out April 6, will feature guest appearances by System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda...

Last week was a healthy week for metal in stores. HIM debuted at the top spot on the Hard Rock charts, with 26,000 copies scanned in a 'hearty' – get it?- debut. Fear Factory landed at 6 on the Hard Rock chart, with 10,300 in sales for their first album with Dino Cazares back in the lineup. 4,00...

In early 2009, when Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares decided to play together again after seven years of not speaking to one another, they asked original bassist Christian Olde Wolbers and drummer Raymond Herrera to help create a full band reunion...

UPDATE: See our final list of the best metal songs of 2010. Here at Noisecreep, we like to stay ahead of the game. While 2010 is a nascent year -- it's only the middle of February, we know -- but we're going to keep track of the year's top songs from here through the end of December...

Over the years, Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell has experienced plenty of pain being in the band. And we're not talking about the emotional distress that came in 2002, when the singer quit in a huff after one fight too many with guitarist Dino Cazares...

A lot of great metal songs came out in 2009, which is why it has taken us so long to put together a definitive list of the top 10. In the end, there had to be some omissions, and some may seem to be glaring. For instance, there's nothing from Megadeth's killer new album 'Endgame,' Nile's ferocious 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' Blut Aus Nord's experimental 'Memoria Vetusta II -- Dialogue with the S

When Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and vocalist Burton C. Bell play, there's a palpable chemistry that was built over decades on a foundation of experience and tension. In other words, the two have been through more drama than most divorced couples...

Before he formed Life of Agony in 1989 with vocalist Keith Caputo and guitarist Joey Z, bassist Alan Robert was going to school to be a professional illustrator. Then the band got a record deal and he scrapped his art career for a life of rock 'n' roll...