Sam Rivers, 48-year-old bassist and founding member of the metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday, Oct. 18. “Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” the band wrote in an Instagram ...

Sam Rivers, the founding bassist for the nu-metal band Limp Bizkit, has died at the age of 48. The band announced his death in a statement on Saturday. In a tribute posted on Instagram, the band ...

Cooper is famously obsessed with golf. Halford, not so much. Halford enjoys cooking and jokes that his claim to fame is ...

There are no off days for Cryptopsy. The Canadian death-metal band is on a night off just outside of Baltimore when Westword rings, but instead of indulging in the local fare of soft-shell crab and ...

Gojira, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Bring Me the Horizon were all on the bill at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento.

Across the history of heavy metal, no subgenre has transformed so greatly in as short a time as metalcore. Initially defined as a mixture of thrash metal and hardcore punk, spearheaded by the likes of ...

At the climax of Jimmy And Stiggs, the latest 16mm-shot splatterfest from raconteur writer/director Joe Begos, a man’s head is split open by an alien parasite. The bug-eyed little monster crawls out ...

Avenged Sevenfold has postponed its South American tour just days before it was scheduled to kick off, citing a vocal injury to frontman M. Shadows that requires immediate medical attention, Loudwire ...

Metal powerhouse Avenged Sevenfold has postponed their 2025 Latin American tour after frontman M. Shadows was diagnosed with a vocal fold hematoma. The band announced the decision on Friday through ...