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Tickets for the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival will go on sale to the general public in select markets beginning June 12 at both www.RockstarUproar.com and www.LiveNation.com. A limited number of $20 lawn tickets with no extra fees are available while supplies last...

Long Island hard rock fiends Black Water Rising initially released their self-titled debut solely via digital means. Despite that forward-thinking approach, the band, who know their way around a thunderous, '70s rock-inspired riff, has 'regressed' a little, signing with Giddy Up Records to release the same music in physical form...

Rockstar Energy Drink is offering a more 'rock' alternative to their wildly successful Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, a metal-centric event which is embarking on its third year with Korn and Rob Zombie as this edition's headliners, and has supplanted Ozzfest at the top of the summer metal festival food chain...

Polkadot Cadaver vocalist Todd Smith -- no, not LL Cool J, whose legal moniker is also Todd Smith -- was wearing shades inside a dark bar when Noisecreep unexpectedly ran into him at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas back in March. "These hide the haggard mess underneath," Smith told Noisecreep about his sunglasses with a self-deprecating laugh...

Former Hellyeah/Danzig/Nothingface bassist Jerry Montano may have been out of the metal public's eye as of late after leaving Hellyeah on the eve of their self-titled debut album in 2007 -- in a manner which many stories and rumors have been circulated...

Jewelry maker and metal enthusiast Jeffrey Appling is the self-proclaimed 'Rebel of Luxury.' He's infusing bling with a thoroughly metal aesthetic. "I will eventually do a full line of metal jewelry that truly represents our enthusiasm for metal music and our relentless pursuit in being unique and separate from the mainstream and typical jewelry so commonly seen today," Appling told Nois