Chad Childers

Volbeat's 'Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies' album arrives next week, but the band has an early treat for their fans. They've made 'Room 24,' their collaboration with famous Mercyful Fate leader King Diamond, available to their fans as a free download.

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Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has teamed up with Gibson to design two special edition guitars for the company that will be made available for purchase this April.

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Black Sabbath's '13' album has primarily been something for metalheads to converse about over the last few months, but now we're getting our first glimpses of the band's highly anticipated release, as the group has just revealed the album artwork and offered up a song snippet, as well.

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Metallica's Orion Music + More festival just got a little more awesome with the reveal of several new acts that have been added to the bill. Highlighting the new additions is the reunion of Robert Trujillo's onetime project Infectious Grooves.

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Within Temptation raised a few eyebrows last year with their symphonic metal takes on a number of popular alt-rock, dance and pop songs. Now, after having some fun performing the numbers for European station Q-Music, the band has decided to compile their covers into a new album titled 'The Q-Music Sessions.'

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Marilyn Manson is a man of many talents -- musician, actor, artist and now celebrity model. NYmag.com is reporting that Manson will be the face of a new Saint Laurent ad campaign.

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Alter Bridge's members have set aside all of their other projects and are currently in the midst of writing for their next record. The group has yet to reveal when their fourth studio album will arrive in stores, but given the discussion of a fall tour, it's likely that a late summer / early fall street date will eventually be revealed.

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Queens of the Stone Age revealed earlier this week that their long-awaited new album, '… Like Clockwork,' would arrive in June. Now we've got the first taste of new music from the disc as the band debuted the track 'My God Is the Sun' during their appearance at Lollapalooza Brazil.

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Breakups are hard and it often takes a little separation before you can truly address what has happened. As such, My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero has delivered his heartfelt reflection on the band's recent split, admittedly taking the time to get what he wanted to say just right.

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Linkin Park are one of the top bands when it comes to giving back via charitable efforts, as their Music for Relief organization has helped get communities around the world back on their feet after natural disasters. Giving their fans a more tangible idea of what Music for Relief does, the band's latest video follows Mike Shinoda as he travels to Haiti.

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Colleges are for learning on a wide variety of subject matters and you can now include heavy metal among them as Bowling Green State University will host the first 'Heavy Metal and Popular Culture International Conference' next month. The event, which runs April 4-7, was founded by BGSU's Jeremy Wallach, Esther Clinton and Brian Hickam -- all metal fans who got the idea while attending similar heavy metal educational conferences in Europe.

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Adrenaline Mob drummer Mike Portnoy is stepping up to help one of his dearest friends in a time of need and he's got a number of his rock and roll peers to help out as well. The 'Mike Portnoy Celebrity Cymbal Fundraising Raffle' will raise funds for Portnoy's friend, who had his life changed forever when a fall left him paralyzed from the chest down.

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