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It's too much guitar god for one song! Slash and Queen guitarist Brian May have teamed up to perform together on a charity track called 'The Badger Swagger.' It's good riffs for a good cause. Slash contributed his parts remotely, recording in Los Angeles, while May did his thing at Abbey Road Studios in London, England...

While some might argue that touring with a former "American Idol" contestant as a stand-in is worse than using technical trickery to resurrect a dearly departed frontman, Queen drummer Roger Taylor says he wouldn't play with a hologram Freddie Mercury...

The arena-rock grandeur of Queen can never be duplicated, but nine musicians -- four vocalists and five instrumentalists, all selected through a 12-week online talent search -- are hoping to come as close as possible. May 26 marks the start of the Queen Extravaganza Tour, an "official tribute show" spearheaded by the iconic British band's drummer, Roger Taylor...

Brian May has no beef with science -- dude's an astrophysicist, after all -- but the Queen guitarist draws the line at experimenting on animals. As Contact Music reports, the British rocker has joined the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in opposing the creation of a dog farm that will reportedly breed beagles for laboratory research...

It's not a very complex song, but it has become an absolute metal classic. It starts with four measures of a straightforward drumbeat, then launches into one of the catchiest, most influential mid-paced metal riffs of all time -- one that features just four power chords, but injects as much energy and excitement into the compact tune as a inside-the-park home run...

The Bay Area thrash scene of the late '80s birthed a handful of brilliant bands, but none have been as underrated as Death Angel. Whether it's their sporadic release schedule or the break they took through most of the '90s, the band hasn't been recognized nearly as much as their excellent material warrants...

Black Robot bassist Jonathan 'J.B.' Brightman saw what he thought was the downfall of traditional rock 'n' roll. But his faith was restored when he witnessed kids playing 'Guitar Hero' in a California big box store. "I went to Best Buy a couple times and I saw these kids rocking out to Mountain and all these old classic songs," Brightman, the former bassist for Buckcherry, told Noisecre

"The last thing I wanted after leaving Journey was to say to the world, 'This is the kind of album I would have made with them,'" singer Jeff Scott Soto says of his career post-Journey. "I've always emulated Queen. They never had any boundaries, no walls between them...

Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder Paul O'Neill subscribes to a simple, 'Field of Dreams'-like theory when deciding whether or not to bring his live show back to arenas. "As long as the people keep coming, we'll keep bringing it back," O'Neill told Noisecreep matter of factly...

The Heavy Metal Hookers of the Philly Roller Girls League are tried and true metalheads. "Before every bout, I listen to Slayer and I'd say that 'Show No Mercy' is the album we listen to the most," proud Hooker Robin Drugstores told Noisecreep...