Metallica is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Revolver Golden Gods Awards have been handed out and now it's time to get back to the day-to-day coverage of heavy metal. And that means another edition of "Your Vote Counts."

Last week, we premiered Hatebreed's "Ghosts of War" video, which is totally rippin.' But we also played new videos from Oceano, Static-X and Suicide Silence, among others. Click "more" to vote for your favorite. Only one vote per IP address.The winner will be chosen on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Read more...

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Shortly before being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Metallica bassist Lars Ulrich sat down with "That Metal Show" host Eddie Trunk to talk about the current chemistry between band members, the creative process for Death Magnetic, the overdriven production of the album, the ubiquity of filesharing in today's music market and the future of Metallica. Click more to watch the interview before it airs on VH1 Classic this weekend. Read more...

Slayer guitarist Kerry King with Anthrax axeman Scott Ian backstage at Golden Gods
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"Holy f-ck, I've never seen a circle pit at an awards ceremony before" joked metal-bred comic Brian Posehn ("The Sarah Silverman Show"), who hosted the First Annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which was held Tuesday night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.

The reason Posehn has never seen it is because it hasn't happened -- at least not in the U.S. The Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods marked the first large scale metal awards show ever in the States, and all corners of the metal community united to pay tribute to the music that has fired up hearts, stirred souls and changed lives. The highlight of the night was headliner Megadeth, whose crushing, polished three-song set of "Peace Sells," "Sweating Bullets" and "Holy Wars" was virtuosic, kinetic and undeniably sincere -- the perfect cap to an evening of heavy metal celebration. Read more...

When Connecticut hardcore metal masters, Hatebreed, started working on their covers album, For the Lions, they weren't planning to include any tracks by Slayer, and not because they weren't worthy. Slayer, says frontman Jamey Jasta was so influential and so supportive to Hatebreed that the band didn't want to pay them a disservice by screwing up one of their songs. Fortunately, Hatebreed changed their mind because "Ghosts of War," from Slayer's 1988 album South of Heaven is an excellent tribute to the masters, faithfully executed without being a photocopy of the original. Click "more" to watch the video for the song, which will debut on-air on Saturday's "Headbangers Ball," which airs from 2 to 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...

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One of the great lyrics of 2008: "What don't kill ya make ya more strong" from Metallica's "Broken, Beat & Scarred."

It's actually a grammatically incorrect re-phrasing of the Friedrich Nietzsche axiom "That which does not kill us makes us stronger," but it gets the point across in colloquial terms and is as relevant today as it was when it was first spoken. Moreover, it's a slogan of optimism for anyone who feels abused, beaten down, undervalued or betrayed. Feel like sh-t today? Drink heavily tonight. Shake your hangover off tomorrow and come back the next day less naive and more informed, with a realistic perspective on your misfortune and a bit more insight on the selfish nature of mankind. ("Click "more" for more about the philosophy of Metallica and to watch the band's new video "Broken, Beat & Scarred." Read more...

We're beyond thrilled to present the premiere of Mastodon's new video for "Divinations," the first single from the band's astonishing new album Crack the Skye, which comes out March 24 in both a single-disc edition and a disc plus DVD version, which includes photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Hubbard's candid, revealing documentary of the making of the album. Click here to see other "Making of Crack the Skye" segments.

Click "more" to read the band members talk about the video, watch "Divinations" and find out when Mastodon are coming to a town near you. Read more...

When we got Trivium guitarist Corey Beaulieu's Random Shuffle we expected to see at least one or two Pantera songs on there. After all, this is a dude who learned to play by jamming along with records like Cowboys From Hell and Vulgar Display of Power. Then it dawned on us. Beaulieu probably knows those so cold he can listen to them note for note in his head and never needs to place the actual discs in a player again -- kind of the way a lot of people are with Led Zeppelin. Does anyone really need to hear "Stairway to Heaven" again before they die? We've yet to see it on anyone's Random Shuffle and it certainly isn't on Beaulieu's list. Read more...

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Metallica had a surprise for fans at the band's February 25 show in Nottingham, England. During the first show of their current European tour, the group debuted the new sing "The Judas Kiss," the seventh track they've played from latest album Death Magnetic since they began touring the disc. Click "more" to watch professionally filmed footage of the nine-minute long clip. Read more...

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After years of looking up to thrash metal titans Metallica, San Francisco's second most popular thrash group, Machine Head, finally got the chance to open for Metallica on their lengthy Death Magnetic tour. It was, perhaps, the apex of the upward arc that's accompanied Machine Head's 2007 album The Blackening, but it wasn't the only highlight. Since they began touring for the disc, they've performed powerful headline shows, raised eyebrows at outdoor festivals, played direct support to Slipknot in Europe and partied their asses off wherever they went. But while Machine Head have made lots of new fans and friends, and experienced plenty of love onstage, behind the scenes the band has been on the edge of collapse. Click more to hear our podcast with frontman Robb Flynn, who explains what went wrong and what they're doing to fix the Machine. Read more...