Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is secretly plotting a heavy rock super-tour, which will include his band, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Slayer guitarist Kerry King has let it slip that negotiations

Machine Head rocker Phil Demmel ended the band's concert in Virginia on Sunday in dramatic fashion - he collapsed from dehydration while performing the penultimate song.

Jive/20-20 metal band Bullet For My Valentine's album Scream Aim Fire debuts this week at # 4 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart and #2 on the Top Alternative & Hard Music charts.

In what's sure to be the hottest concert ticket of the summer, multi-platinum rock acts Slipknot and Disturbed will lead the first-ever Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, a riotous road show packed with some of hard music's most influential artists and a plethora of the genre's most exciting young voices.

Atlantic recording artist Shadows Fall has received a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance for the song "Redemption" off their critically acclaimed label debut, Threads Of Life.

Welsh rock band Lostprophets are celebrating after they were named Best British Band at the Kerrang! Awards on Thursday night. The rockers have now won the award two years in a row after beating Muse, Enter Shikari, Biffy Clyro and Funeral For A Friend to the title.

Machine Head were the big winners at last night's Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in London, claiming two major honors and performing the night's live highlight. The California rockers claimed the Best Album award for the critically-acclaimed Blackening and front man Robb Flynn picked up the night's Golden God honor.

Coming soon to a TV near you will be the weekly 30-minute metal program, 'Rocknation.' Put together by the Perris Records label, the program will air weekly Saturday night at midnight, and will feature only the best metal videos - of artists from other labels as well as on Perris.

World renowned bi-lingual Latino Metal sextet Ill NiÑo is paying homage to some of the most influential bands and artists shaping today's musical landscape with The Under Cover Sessions.

Fresh from sharing stages at a string of sold-out venues on their groundbreaking "Congress of Corruption" fall U.S. tour, Cement Shoes Records label mates Ill Nino and Ra will be back together before a live national listening audience next month on "Rockline."