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Which ones do you still listen to the most?

Collabs have never been more popular.

He said it was his true gateway to all things heavy.

Rocking and inking seem to go hand in hand.

Known as a founding member of metalcore greats Zao, Jesse Smith is keeping busy these days withe a new project. Jesse Smith & the Holy Ghost finds the drummer front and center, singing and playing guitar, rocking out on some legit hard rock. Sm...

Jesse Smith, founding member of the seminal Christian metal-core band Zao, has returned from an eight year musical hiatus with a fresh new perspective and entirely new musical endeavor. Smith's new solo project, Jesse Smith & the Holy Ghost, is a very personal project for Smith, who walked away from the band he founded in 2004 in order to deal with his struggles with addiction and remove himse

A Plea for Purging have spent the last few years either inside the confines of a recording studio or their tour van. Formed in 2005, the Tennessee combo is one of the leading Christian metal/hardcore groups in the world today...

Old fashioned word of mouth hype is what helped Carnifex become one of the most successful younger death metal bands in the scene today. While many of their peers rely on social networking sites as their most valuable marketing tool, Carnifex have followed the footsteps of their older heroes by forging a fanbase through relentless touring and great material ...

For quite a while now Barn Burner frontman Kevin Keegan has been juggling school along with the band, but come April, he will be done with college. So what does the guy that wrote 'Beer Today, Bong Tomorrow' spend time studying in the van while on tour...

This weekend, actor Johnny Depp will be joining a long list of activists and musicians calling for the reexamination of the 1993 conviction of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley (dubbed the West Memphis Three) for the murder of three children in a small Southern town...