This Week's Top Melodic Metal Artists

Important Techniques For Mastering Lead Guitar - Slides, String Bending & Tremolo Picking
Learning how to play lead guitar is an art and it can only be mastered using some of the most important and advanced techniques like string bending and tremolo picking among many others The most important part of playing the lead guitar is playing it well and using the various techniques to your advantage without going out of tune

Heavy Metal & Hardcore Punk Fans: Prepare to Fight the Good Fight
On Tuesday April 13th, 2010 the recently launched label Good Fight Music will make their mark on the world of metal and hardcore punk with their debut releases Cancer Bats "Bears, Mayors, Scraps, and Bones" as well as Son of Aurelius "The Farthest Reaches."

Xbox 360: Rock Band 2 Review
I could spend all day playing an adrenaline-fueled shooter over Xbox Live, and I love nothing more than running raid after raid in ýWorld of Warcraft,ý but when it comes to playing a game with a bunch of people, live and in person, nothing compares to ýRock Bandý Harmonix and MTV Games offered this little piece of melodic wonderment to the world last holiday season and, despite some unfortunate hardware malfunctions, met with thunderous applause from rock star wannabes everywhere

Near-Death Mishap Knocks Blood Corps Out of Line-Up: Idaho's Goth-Metal Band Rott Tapped To Open Metal Fest
Idaho's Melodic Goth-Metal Band Rott tapped to Open 2009 Flight of the Valkyries Metal Fest when Blood Corps, an up-and-coming band from Virginia, experienced a brush with death.

A Cool Band Name
Almost every musician comes to a point where he or she decides that it would be really great to start a band The first thing that comes to mind about starting a band is - where are you going to get two solid guitarists, a drummer, someone who plays the bass guitar, someone on keyboards

Avant-Psychedelic Band Heavy Water Experiments Releases its Self-Titled Album
Los Angeles-based avant-psychedelic group Heavy Water Experiments has just released their self-titled album. This release, which transcends categories such as indie, stoner, psychedelic, progressive, or alternative rock, spans a musical range from heavy to mellow. In the past, the band has used the following marriage characterizations to describe its sound: "Pink Sabbath," "Doorphine," and "Radio Queens of the Stone Head." This album is intended for listeners with a sophisticated palette--and yet radio-friendly tracks are ample.