Stuck Mojo

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...

Century Media Records has a rich and impressive metal history, and the label's U.S. office is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a compilation series and several interactive online promotions. The label, which has been home to Shadows Fall, Lacuna Coil, In This Moment and Only Living Witness to name a few, through the years, is celebrating its past while moving forward into the digital future..

As a touring musician in two metal bands -- Fozzy and Stuck Mojo -- guitarist Rich Ward has been exposed to many cultures, people, places and things. Ward, who hails from Atlanta, extolled some of the virtues of being American by birth and Southern by the grace o' God, telling Noisecreep, "The best thing about being Southern is all of the baggage that comes with it that you get to dispel...

The origin of the friendship between Fozzy vocalist Chris Jericho and guitarist Rich Ward, also of rap-rock godfathers Stuck Mojo, has the dubious distinction of being born over a shared love of Bible-tossing, black-and-yellow-costume-sporting Christian metal band Stryper...

Playing in bands since he was 14, rocker/WWE wrestling star Chris Jericho is a wealth of knowledge about music. So he felt perfectly at ease hosting VH1's '100 Most Shocking Music Moments,' which began airing in December. "I have all this useless information stored in my brain," Jericho told Noisecreep with a laugh...

The parents of missing Metallica fan Morgan Harrington are once again organizing a volunteer, community search for the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student. She disappeared nearly three months ago after ending up outside the John Paul Jones Arena, where Metallica were headlining a gig...