Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne will be making a guest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 15th, according to the Late Night TV Page. He will be promoting his forthcoming new studio album, "Scream" which will be released on June 11th in Europe, June 14th in the United Kingdom and June 22nd in North America. Courtesy of Metalunderground.com

U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Hammer: "Reign In Blood" was an obvious watershed moment for SLAYER. Did you realize what a landmark album it was going to be when you wrote it? King: It was just ..... more

Slipknot bassist Paul Dedrick Gray was found dead this morning at 10:50 AM CT at the TownePlace Suites in Urbandale, Iowa, police have confirmed. He was 38. A hotel employee found Gray's body after receiving a call from a concerned family member. "They checked the room and found him deceased inside," officer Dave Disney of the Urbandale Police Department told Noisecreep. Gray was alone in the room and there was no ..... more

Last week, the church of heavy metal lost a god. Ronnie James Dio is dead. He didn’t die fighting wizards, knights, demons, dragons or any other mythical beast he wrote about. No, he left this mortal world on a hospital bed in Houston after a six-month battle with stomach cancer. There were rumors of his death spreading around the Internet as early as last Saturday night, however it wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that his wife and manager, Wendy Dio, posted this announcement ..... more

AS I LAY DYING--whose last four albums count combines sales in excess of one million copies--have entered the Billboard Top 200 chart at #10 with over 38,000 copies sold of their much anticipated THE POWERLESS RISE album. THE POWERLESS RISE also reached #2 on Billboard's Independent Albums Chart and #3 on Billboard's Hard Music Albums Chart. In Canada, the new album debuted at #11 on the Top 200 Chart, #2 on the Indie Chart and #3 on the Hard Rock Chart. Additionally, the album ..... more

This week’s SNL digital short threatened to be a touching moment, as various current and former cast members came together to honor host Betty White by sitting her down and singing the classic Golden Girls “thank you for being a friend” theme song – until White herself stated that she preferred the heavy metal version and quickly turned the short into a violently bloody affair in which Betty was sporting a ski mask. The digital short came late in the episode, ..... more