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- Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen details his worship of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate:

Steve Lawton, FilmMagic IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A defamation lawsuit against Sammy Hagar filed by a former Playboy bunny who claims he fathered her child has been dismissed, and the former Van Halen frontman is pleased with the result, his attorney said Monday...

Eddie Trunk has taken to his website to announce the slate of guests for the upcoming 11th season of his popular Vh1 Classic series "That Metal Show." The season kicks off with two episodes filmed back in March, and joining Trunk for the Aug...

Sammy Hagar has always seemed like a pretty laid-back, likable dude, and even after all the drama he's experienced with Van Halen, he's "disappointed that they have not reached out to be friends," as he said in a recent video interview with Vegas Rocks...

It takes big cojones to lay everything out on the line to try and "make it" as a rock star. The road to platinum records and a mansion in Bel Air is filled with the shattered hopes and dreams of countless musicians. For the few who do actually get to live out their childhood rock 'n' roll fantasies, there's one trait most of them share: a Type A personality...

When Ronnie Montrose died last month, an official statement on the guitarist's website said he'd "battled cancer, and staved off old age for long enough." The implication was that the 64-year-old hard-rock legend had succumbed to prostate cancer, which he'd been fighting publicly for years, but according to Classic Rock Magazine, this might not be such a clear-cut case...

Toward the end of his life, Ronnie Montrose was planning to reform his namesake '70s hard rock band, Montrose, and perform in Cabo, Mexico, Sammy Hagar has revealed to Rolling Stone. Unfortunately, the guitarist died Saturday (March 3) of prostate of cancer, leaving Hagar -- the former lead singer -- to memorialize the fallen guitar great...

Joe Satriani, one of the most respected and innovative guitarists in the world today, recently announced the release of the live-concert film, 'Satchurated: Live in Montreal.' The DVD was filmed live during Satriani's The Wormhole Tour, supporting his studio album 'Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards' at the Metropolis in Montreal, Canada...

There are a couple of ways to look at Van Halen's forthcoming 12th album, 'A Different Kind of Truth,' which features reworked versions of songs originally written in the '70s. One interpretation: The band is reaching back to a beloved era in its history to give fans exactly what they want...

In the 1970s, Van Halen lit up the sky and toppled their rock elders; in the 1980s they conquered MTV and reigned supreme on the pop charts; and in the 1990s they went off the deep end recording with three lead singers. Along the way, many legends were born, and now the band seeks to reopen the book...