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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...

The 2010 Grammys have come and gone, with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé walking away the night's biggest winners, but friend of Noisecreep Rob Halford and British metallers Judas Priest finally took home the bronze statuette for Best Metal Performance, edging out fellow nominees Slayer, Megadeth, Ministry and Lamb of God, who were no-shows at the awards because a massive snowstorm kept them in their na

As they get older, they get better! Aussie legends AC/DC picked up the Grammy statue for 'War Machine' from 'Black Ice' for Best Hard Rock Performance, beating out the likes of Nickelback, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park and Metallica. No one from the band was there to pick up the Grammy award, but we're sure that Brian Johnson, Angus Young and company are celebrating in their knickers...

While on tour with Nickelback in Australia last month, the Sick Puppies enjoyed some scary fun in a dressing room with Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger. According to Puppies bassist Emma Anzai, Kroeger tried using a knife to open a bottle of beer on the night of a performance...

With the latest Sick Puppies record debuting at 31 on the Billboard 200 and the album's hard-charging first single, 'You're Going Down,' becoming their biggest yet, the Australian alt-metal act ended a stellar 2009 by going back to where it all began...

Drumroll, please! The 52nd annual Grammy nominees have been announced, and the Best Metal Performance category contains absolutely no surprises -- except, perhaps, for the exclusions that we could argue until we're blue in the face about, so let's not even go there...

Nickelback have entered the world of professional wrestling. No, they won't be getting in the ring, but their music will be heard loud and clear, hopefully pumping up the contenders. Their latest single, 'Burn It to the Ground,' an industrial-strength wound-up hard rocker from their latest 'Dark Horse,' has been selected as the new RAW theme song, starting next Monday, Nov...

Jamie Hanks is in the back of a van somewhere in America's mid-section, and he's repeating what must his band's mantra. In summation, it's that Those Who Lie Beneath, the Portland, Ore.-based death metal band he fronts, want to be as brutal and evil as possible...

Canadian rockers Nickelback have a rabid fanbase, and we think aficionados will agree these are Nickelback's best videos. Taken from the albums 'Dark Horse,' 'All the Right Reasons' and 'The State,' Nickelback's videos show how the band members use their production budgets for good deeds...

The recording process for Saving Abel's sophomore effort has become an inside joke within the Corinth, Miss.-based rock quintet. "We got a joke going that we're trying to record it in as many studios as we can," bassist Eric Taylor told Noisecreep...