Chris Epting

They've often surprised and delighted, beginning with an impromptu performance on the streets of New York City.

We caught up with Black Sabbath legends Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne at the Los Angeles event to announce Ozzfest Meets Knotfest.

The recent news that metalcore veterans Atreyu would be reuniting sent a shockwave of delight through the rock community and beyond.

There are 50th birthday celebrations and then there's what Maynard James Keenan did this past weekend at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The two-night residency at the famed outdoor theater will no doubt go down as a great tour de force of rock and metal music.

Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance just took home the award for Best Guitarists at this year’s Revolver Golden Gods Awards, but a few weeks ago Gates took the stage for a much different kind of gathering. In an event co-sponsored by Schecter Guitar Research and Guitar Center, Gates hand-selected 10 guitarists from an online contest to take part in an hour-and-a-half master clas

Sebastian Bach's new album 'Give 'Em Hell' has just been unleashed and the metal vocalist has never sounded stronger. The former Skid Row singer has enlisted the help of a few notable friends including Duff McKagan, Steve Stevens and guitarist John 5, who, as detailed in this interview, has quite an interesting history with Bach.

In a hangar-like sound studio in Hollywood, California, members of Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars were on hand Tuesday, March 4 to announce their upcoming North American 'Carnivores' tour (which will also be featuring AFI).

The 2014 NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) convention just wrapped up in Anaheim, Calif., but no doubt its effects will be ringing in the ears of many for weeks.

Metal musicians travel the world constantly leapfrogging from continent to continent on a blur of buses, planes and trains. But no matter how busy they are and how insane the lifestyle is, of course there's always some time for a little football -- especially with Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks coming up this Sunday.

What do you get when members of Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament and a slew of other metal bands share the stage? Metal Masters 5!

Rob Zombie has been a busy guy these days, planning his upcoming 'Night of the Living Dreads' tour with Korn and designing and building his Halloween spectacular, Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare, which is currently taking place at the FEARplex in Pomona, Calif. The gory and graphic attraction, which also features lots of music, will culminate on Nov. 1 and 2, when Zombie himself takes over a

Falling in Reverse's Ronnie Radke recently became a first-time dad when Playboy model Crissy Henderson gave birth to their daughter, Willow Grace Radke, back on June 13th.