Godsmack

Are you ready to rock in the Midwest? Today, promoters for Rock on the Range announced the full lineup for the 2010 edition of the festival to be held May 22 and 23 at Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. This is the fourth year for the event. Godsmack and Rob Zombie will headline Rock on the Range 2010...

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...

Godsmack's Sully Erna will have to pay millions as a result of a 2007 car crash. Erna was involved in the crash on April 11, 2007. The victim, 27 year old Lindsay Taylor and her parents, Elaine and Jeffrey, sued Erna as a result of the crash...

Former Bleed the Dream frontman Brandon Thomas calls his new band, Phantom Communique (pronounced 'commune-ick-ay'), 'rock metal.' On record, that is. Live and in person, he thinks the band is more metal than radio rock, more Lamb of God than Godsmack...

How could it be? Vince Neil, lead singer of Mötley Crüe, the self-proclaimed "loudest band in the world" is sick of boobs? Seriously? In a recent interview, Neil admits that seeing women flash him from the audience doesn't exactly have the same appeal as it once did. "After...

Guitar Center is looking for the next great musician who sits behind a kit! The retailer has announced its star-studded lineup for the Drum-Off '09 Grand Finals, which is the search for the next great undiscovered drummer. Over 5,000 drummers tried out and the five best will battle it out in the Grand Finals which will be held at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on January...

Mötley Crüe's 'Greatest Hits' album has gotten even greater. On Nov. 17, just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, the glam metal pioneers will release an updated version of the 2003 album, which contains material that wasn't written yet when the original came out. The new 1...

These days, bands will do just about anything to promote their new albums. Viral campaigns, intricate online treasure hunts, fake websites, fabricated stories ... the list goes on and on. That's why, when we woke up this morning, a story about Five Finger Death Punch gave us pause...

If you're a regular reader of this site, then you probably already know we've been podcasting over here at Noisecreep. Last week, Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair, fresh from performing on Jimmy Fallon's show, swung by the studios to hang with us during the taping and to talk about the band's new album, 'Retribution,' which hit stores on Tuesday...

Tommy Lee is still on the disabled list, so Mötley Crüe has tapped drummer Frank Zummo of Street Drum Corps to fill in for the band's next three shows. Zummo makes his debut with the Crüe tonight in Virginia Beach, Va. and will also play shows in Bristow, Virginia and Raleigh, North Carolina. Zummo says Mö...