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Kerry King, Josey Scott and Geoff Tate are among the musicians announcing new tours this past week. Will you be getting tickets?

What new rock and metal tours will you be seeing? Check out the latest announcements from the touring world and get festival and cruise info too.

Scary news for Today Is the Day frontman Steve Austin, who was in a serious van accident over the weekend along with a friend.

Today is the Day have been punishing listeners with their left-of-center brand of noise rock for the past two decades. Even though they've been on several different labels, gone through numerous lineup changes, and survived through countless scene trends, one thing has always remained true -- Steve Austin cannot be stopped...

Canada's the Great Sabatini blend sludge and grindcore into an angry, blazing ball of rocking metal, with the roaring noise worship of Today Is the Day and Unsane. They claim influence from '70s bands like Black Sabbath, King Crimson and Captain Beyond...

If you're talking noise rock (and you should be), Amphetamine Reptile Records is going to be at the forefront of the conversation. Tom Hazelmyer, marine at at the time, founded the legendary label in 1986 to put out records for his band Halo of Flies...

While most reviewers of Disaster Strikes' 'Liberty Toast' were impressed by the subject matter and a guest appearance from former Dead Kennedys frontman and Alternative Tentacles label owner Jello Biafra, the more exciting fact about the album -- at least to this writer -- is that the punk album was recorded by metal musician and producer Steve Austin (Today Is the Day)...

Melodic black metal band the Funeral Pyre will follow up 2008's acerbic 'Wounds' with the more musically diverse 'Vultures at Dawn,' which is scheduled for release on June 8. "On this record, we stepped out of our comfort zone and tried to create better songs, never focusing on what style of metal it actually is...

"Making films based on albums is an exhausting and exhilarating experience and it's the ultimate flattery to have a band say 'I trust you with my music. Make a film based on it,'" filmmaker David Hall told Noisecreep. Hall doesn't make music videos; he makes films based on entire albums...

David Hall, director of the Maryland Deathfest 7 feature-length documentary, has coined a new cinematic phrase and created a new genre: 'grind verite.' "At first, I didn't know what kind of film I wanted to make about MDF," Hall told Noisecreep...