Full Metal Jackie and Alex Distefano

Swing House Rehearsal & Recording Studios Tuesday Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m. Located between Los Angeles, Hollywood and West Hollywood, Swing House Rehearsal & Recording Studios, hosted an exclusive listening party Tuesday evening for the Florida-based band Underoath, a metalcore group that has sold over a million records worldwide and toured......

View more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow, "Slayer and Megadeth @ Long Beach Arena." Megadeth are undoubtedly one of the biggest thrash metal bands of all time. Fronted by Dave Mustaine, founder, guitarist and vocalist, the band was formed in the early '80s after Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica......

View more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow, "Slayer and Megadeth @ Long Beach Arena." A tall skinny man in all black shouted, "FUCK YOU JESUS FREAK! SATAN SATAN!" as he stood in line to be frisked at the Long Beach Arena Monday evening, for the American Carnage Tour, a thrash......

On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Guns N Roses in the '80s to become one......

Nothing beats a free show, especially in today's economy. Which is why both the Echo and the Echoplex were full to capacity on Sunday, for a 12 hour eclectic mix of metal artists such as grindcore innovators Repulsion, Southern California hardcore metal band NAILS, the noisy, jazzy droned out Eagle......

San Diego's heavy hitters As I Lay Dying have conquered the globe, having performed in such exotic destinations as Indonesia, Dubai, Australia, Russia and of course countless tours across Europe and North America. With a thrashy, thunderous approach to hardcore and metal often times dubbed 'metal core,' by rabid fans,......

Last Sunday, in the sweltering heat in Hollywood, around a thousand black-shirt clad longhairs in spikes and tight jeans, stoners, death metalheads and thrashers in denim bombarded the House of Blues on Sunset for this year's installment of the Summer Slaughter Tour, an extreme metal package bill that has been......

Joey Jordison might possibly be the busiest musician in heavy metal today. His decade-plus career as the uber sonic madman behind the drum kit for the mighty Slipknot is only one of many musical projects he has been a part of. After producing up-and-coming bands like Otep and 3 Inches......