Metalocalypse creator Brendon Small reveals the details behind the rock opera starring Dethklok coming this October:

Adult Swim shared this sneak peek:

Half way through May and we’ve seen some crazy shows already but there’s still an abundance of awesome gigs coming up so we put together a lil’ playlist of the serious eye-catchers! It’s certainly set to be a mad month!

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to attend not 1 but 2 Tool shows! I have a good friend in the lighting team and was given a pass to both shows, which allowed me to sit at Front of House in the Sound/Lighting/Visual area which was the most mind-blowing experience.

American heavy rockers Alter Bridge have acolossal box set release on the way, including sixteen discs, never before seen interview footage, exclusive photos and more! Check out the teaser for it below or visit the countdown website here.

Official Soundwave photographer Kane Hibberd recently released his first book, titled Kanye Lens Vs Soundwave Volume 1which features photostaken from Soundwave Festival 2008 - 2012.

Check out the video below to get a page-by-page sneak peak at the amazing photos contained within and a short commentary from Kane.

Shihad drummer Tom Larkin has recently spoken about opening up for the legendary Black Sabbath.

We’ve recently discovered Eric Calderone through the powers of YouTube who seems to be a bit of a maniac for transforming popular theme music into metal. He’s reworked the likes of ‘The Walking Dead’, 'Game of Thrones’,'Super Mario Bro’s, 'Requiem for a Dream’ and heaps more.

Here’s his version of 'The Walking Dead’.

Quite literally the world’s ‘heaviest metal’ band. Compressorhead are the robot rockers designed and created by a technical artist in Berlin. The robotic band consisting of a four-armed drummer, 'Stickboy’, guitarist 'Fingers’ and bassist 'Bones’ rocked out with Motorhead’s 'Ace of Spades’ at the Frankfurt Music Trade Fair earlier this month.