heaven and hell

When Heaven & Hell frontman Ronnie James Dio received the award for Most Metal Vocalist at the 2010 Revolver Golden Gods Awards on April 8, the vocalist seemed to be in good spirits and was optimistic about beating his battle with stomach cancer, which he was diagnosed with in November 2009. In...

The metal world survived the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards. The bullet-belted, star-studded event, which occurred on April 8 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre, featured a full-fledged black carpet with everyone from Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl to Slash to Chino Moreno to Corey Taylor to Jonathan Davis in attendance...

Today, the Noisecreep staff will be taping episode numero tres of our newly-launched, weekly ''Creep Show' podcast, and man, is it shaping up to be must-see TV. We're having special guest Trevor Strnad swing by to sit in. Yeah, the dude from Black Dahlia Murder...

It was a quintessential New York moment at what's billed as the 'World's Most Famous Arena': One throng of people at Madison Square Garden are queued up to see Britney Spears in the arena, and another to see Heaven & Hell play downstairs, at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden. In...

To Geezer Butler, the legendary bassist from Black Sabbath, the formation of the band Heaven & Hell was unplanned. So he and his band members -- singer Ronnie James Dio, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Vinny Appice -- are taking their career in stride, including the follow-up to 2009's 'The Devil You Know.' "W...

On Friday, we were in Camden, N.J., all afternoon, for the Rockstar Mayhem tour. But being members of the illustrious fourth estate, we spent much of our time backstage. While you were out there watching the bands slay, or perusing glass pipes and T-shirts with cuss words emblazoned across 'em, the real action was happening behind the scenes...

The sun is shining brightly, and we couldn't be more thrilled. For us New Yorkers, the last two weeks have been super soggy, and its nice to have a break from the rain, if only for a day or two. Also, it means we won't have to lug our umbrellas to the Porcupine Tree listening party tonight (more on that in the coming days)...

The good news is, there's not a single Bret Michaels mention in today's installment of White Noise. The bad news is, the weather still stinks here in New York City. It has rained 12 of the last 14 days, if you can believe that. What is this, Seattle...

They say the news is always happening, but this weekend, the metal news took something of a respite. Seriously. It was a rather slow two days, probably because everyone was outside and far from their computers. Here in New York City, at least, we had two solid straight days of sunshine...

Don't expect a reunion of the original Black Sabbath lineup any time soon. With his former Sabbath band mates Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler touring and recording with Ronnie James Dio (Osbourne's replacement in Black Sabbath when he left the band in 1980) as Heaven and Hell, Ozzy Osbourne is suing Iommi over the rights to the Sabbath moniker according to the 'New York Post...