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The Metal Meltdown is a new feature on the Slaughterhouse. We're going to take bands, musicians and songs, pit them against each other and YOU will decide the winner! In the first ever Metal Meltdown, we're going to take two of the 'The Big 4' thrash bands, Metallica and Megadeth and put them head to head.

'Headlong Flight' is the latest release from Rush's upcoming album Clockwork Angels. It's a seven minute juggernaut that includes some amazing bass riffs from frontman Geddy Lee.

The 2012 Golden Gods Awards took this place this past Wednesday (4/11) in Los Angeles. Among the award winners were

First Kiss performed in New Orleans for the NCAA Final Four. Then the foursome presented at the ACM Awards in Law Vegas on April 1st. What could be next for the masked rockers? How about a performance on the reality show Dancing with the Stars...

If  you're a fierce headbanger/metalhead and didn't feel like trekking all the way to Broadway to relive your youth, well you're in luck! 'Rock of Ages,' the highly successful Broadway musical is about to hit the silver screen.

No one has ever said that Kiss' Gene Simmons doesn't speak whatever is on his mind. So it should  be no surprise that the bass player with the elongated tongue had PLENTY to say during the press conference to announce their massive summer tour with fellow rockers, Motley Crue.

Just when you thought the announcement of the Kiss/Motley Crue tour couldn't get any better, the boys from Motley had another big announcement this week. According to Bassist Nikki Sixx, Motley has a new single debuting soon, entitled 'Sex.'

Summer 2012 is shaping up to an amazing concert season for fans of hard rock and heavy metal music.

Apparently you don't always need music to soothe the savage beast. Sometimes even the animal kingdom just wants to rock out! Here is a great video of a bear who looks like he was made to play air guitar with the best of them.

Gene Simmons playing with someone other than Kiss? No, that is not a typo. It's going to happen. For the first time ever, Gene Simmons will be taking part in an all-star jam band.

Were you one of the people that missed seeing the Scorpions on their farewell tour back in 2010? Well you are in luck, as are the rest of Scorpions fans as the band has announced on their official website, that based on the success of that 2010 farewell tour, they will be touring North America again this summer.

Jersey' own guitar icon, former Ozzy Osbourne and now Black Label Society founder/frontman Zakk Wylde has a new book coming out. It's entitled"Bringing Metal To The Children," and will be a tell-tale of life as a heavy metal musician.