Bay Area thrash-metal guitar hero Gary Holt recently talked to CBS News Bay Area about his new memoir, upcoming plans for his band Exodus and returning to the stage with Slayer.

Slayer has announced a one-night-only show that has just been added to the band’s handful of headline concerts set for this ...

Reunited thrash metal icons Slayer announced a run of 2025 North American and European dates in March, marking their first ...

Les played on the band's classic 1978 albums 'Stained Class' and 'Killing Machine' (aka 'Hell Bent for Leather').

Because of Green Day and especially American Idiot ‘s endurance with generation after generation, Coachella had their first ...

Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante recalled being forced to return a T-shirt from an iconic metal band as a child in an April ...

Producer Rick Rubin once praised Slayer's Dave Lombardo for his ability to make everything on the drums sound louder than any ...

Metal heavyweights Machine Head will shoot a music video during their performance this Thursday at San Antonio's Aztec ...

Bay Area metal outfit Machine Head brings its current co-headlining tour with In Flames to the Fox Theater in Oakland ...

Death metal bubbled up from the swamps of Florida in the mid-1980s – and Morbid Angel were one of the first bands to leave a bloody mark. In 2019, Metal Hammer looked back at the birth of the sound ...

Blues Old Stand’s road-honed sound, as heard on their self-titled 1994 debut album, evoked a mix of WAR, Funkadelic and Jimi ...

Singer John Cooper of Skillet is 50. Actor Kevin Alejandro (“Lucifer,” ″Southland”) is 49. Actor Sian Clifford (“Fleabag”) is 43.