Vikings, raise your goblets high! Sweden's favorite Norse warriors, Amon Amarth, have announced that they will be charging their steeds into Fascination Street Studio later this week to record a new album.

Only the driver can stop the momentum of an 18-wheeler. Dino Cazares - founder and guitarist of up-and-comers Divine Heresy - has done just that, firing vocalist Tommy Cummings following a scary onstage altercation.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal in 1970. Period.

Many rock historians will point to late '60s/early '70s hard-rock and heavy-blues bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly and even Cream as having created heavy metal. The truth is that they merely helped lay the groundwork. They were not heavy-metal bands. Black Sabbath were a heavy-metal band.

A lot can change in 17 years. That's how long Kurt Ballou has been playing guitar for Massachusetts metalcore act Converge. "I'm 34 years old," says Kurt. "I was only 21 when I wrote [one of Converge's most popular songs] 'The Saddest Day.' I'm just not the same person I was then. It feels like I'm playing a cover song."

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A band consisting of three Argentinean brothers, collectively known as Los Gauchos, recently got to meet their hero -- legendary Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.