On the next episode of VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show," Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine get the inside information from bassist Velvet Revolver and the Guns N' Roses years. Click more to watch the interview. Read more...

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We've almost reached the end of 2008, and we gotta say it was a good year for metal. The genre continued to grow and diversify, as best exemplified, perhaps, by the top headbanging fest of the year, Rockstar Energy Mayhem. In a single day of Mayhem, fans could witness mainstream extreme metal (Slipknot), mainstream regular metal (Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch), power metal (Dragonforce), lumbering prog/doom metal (Mastodon), contemporary thrash (Machine Head), deathcore (Job For a Cowboy), pre-deathcore/hardcore (The Red Chord), alt-metalcore (36 Crazyfists), female-fronted metalcore (Walls of Jericho) Christian metal/hardcore (Underoath) and hard rock (Airbourne, Black Tide). Read more...

Following the Dr. Pepper/Guns N' Roses promotion fiasco, the band's lawyers were all afizz, threatening Dr. Pepper for failing to make good on its promise to provide a free bottle of Dr. Pepper to everyone in America if Guns N' Roses delivered Chinese Democracy in 2008.

Dr. Pepper had promised that if the album actually came out, all fans needed to do was log onto the soda company's Web site and input their address to receive a coupon in the mail for their free bottle. But when the album came out, the band's web site was so jammed it crashed and few GNR fans were able to claim their prize. Read more...

Guns N' Roses have made their entire new album, Chinese Democracy, available for streaming until November 23. The record is the band's first studio offering since 1991's Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 and can only be bought at BestBuy starting November 23.

Click "more" to stream the album and watch every Guns N' Roses video in our database. Read more...

Hot off the fiberoptic wires, here's the second full song from Guns N' Roses' upcoming album Chinese Democracy. Click more to listen, and let us know if you think it's as good as or better than the first single "Chinese Democracy" (which we've also streamed for your listening pleasure). And while you're at it, let us know if it holds a candle to the stuff they recorded with Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McCagan and Steven Adler. Read more...

In one of Megadeth's best songs, "Peace Sells," Dave Mustaine defiantly sings, "What do you mean I couldn't be the president of the United States of America/ Tell me something, it's still we the people, right?" Whoever thought Mustaine and president elect Barack Obama would have a lot in common?

Just two years ago, the thought of an African American becoming president was, sadly, unimaginable. The prevailing belief was that the people of the United States would support black actors, musicians and sports heroes, and they'd accept African Americans like Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice as advisers to the president, but the top spot -- uh-uh, out of the question and almost as ridiculous as having a woman chosen as a party's Vice Presidential nominee. Thankfully, all of that's changed.

And "change" was the centerpiece of Obama's campaign. The same can't be said for John McCain. Though he tried to escape being connected to the current administration, to the people of this country, McCain meant more of the same, and the thought of continuing on the path we've been in for the last eight years was just unacceptable. African Americans unanimously voted for Obama, as did Latinos and other minorities, but so did the white working class and intelligentsia.

Obama's victory is a historic one and a breakthrough moment in African American history, but it's equally a great moment in American history. Now, let's hope that the next president will be able to repair the damage that's been done over the last eight years, unify and protect the country, heal our international image, fix the economy, keep our taxes from going up and keep his nose out of our First Amendment rights. And now that we've had our say, here's what some heavy metal artists have commented about the election. Read more...

Dude, we've just seen a flying pig. Yes, Guns N' Roses have released the title track of their upcoming album Chinese Democracy to radio. Click "more" to stream it now. Read more...

Slipknot freak out Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad"'s Fogell (aka McLovin)) on red carpet
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We're guessing not too many of you tuned in to watch this year's MTV Video Music Awards since the program didn't feature any heavy metal awards and the "Best Hard Rock" video went to Linkin Park, which some may embrace as a guilty pleasure, but let's face it, they ain't metal. Hell, they're barely hard rock.

Still, there were some cool metal moments at the event, including Slipknot on the red carpet and a brief post-show interview with the band. Plus, we've got some nice photos for you. Click "more" to see it all. Read more...

If you count their 2004 acoustic live album, Alpha is Sevendust's seventh record. But while seven may be a lucky number, the band's luck over the past year has run pretty thin.

In the April issue of Revolver, Sevendust talk about their misfortune, detailing how they're fought their way out of depression, dependency and near bankruptcy to record an album that's heavier and more pissed off than their last few discs.

In one of the unluckiest episodes, drummer Morgan Rose was arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. "It's an interesting situation when you're sitting at someone's house watching a basketball game, and 40 or 50 SWAT guys come in with machine guns," Rose told Revolver of the drug raid that landed him in jail for two nights. "I thought it was a robbery at first, then I realized there wouldn't be that many people robbing the house. I kept telling them I don't do drugs, and they were like, 'You're a rock star, of course you don't do drugs.'"