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Move over The Walking Dead, there's a new zombie in town!

Never a band to avoid choas in their professional lives, after four albums with Century Media, In This Moment have recently announced that they will be leaving the independent label. Later this month, Maria Brink and company will be hitting the studio to record the follow-up to "Blood", this time around with the money and resources of Atlantic Records behind them...

No doubt about it.  Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless is my favorite new feisty rock minx.  Hot, talented, and a "don't give a f***" attitude.  I'm hooked.  Their first album, "Light Me Up" and the follow up E.P., "Hit Me Like a Man" were just a warmup for "Going to Hell"...

When you're perusing the new music at your favorite music store (brick and mortar or online) tomorrow, look under "S". Not for Shinedown, but for "Smith and Myers" - Shinedown vocalist Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers new acoustic project...

The name Monte Pittman is one that's familiar to area metal fans.  A native of Longview, Pittman made a name for himself in local metal band Myra Mains, who released two demos and two CDs in the mid-to-late 90s. Pittman packed up and moved to L...

The Butcher Babies are preparing for their European headlining tour, and to celebrate, they've just dropped a new video for "I Smell a Massacre", from the GOLIATH album. To me, any excuse to ogle Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey is just fine with me...

Lacuna Coil just finished recording their new album with producer Jay Baumgardner (P.O.D, SEVENDUST, EVANESCENCE AND PAPA ROACH), and while still hard at work in the studio, they took a break to perform at the Metal Females Voices Festival in Wieze, Belgium...

Jake E. Lee, best known as the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (Bark at the Moon, The Ultimate Sin) and Badlands, has been keeping a low profile for over two decades now.  He's popped up on tribute albums (Queen, AC/DC, Rush, Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, and Metallica), and performed as a guest guitarist on a few albums, but for the most part, has spent most of the 90's and new millenium A...

Having been a Tool and A Perfect Circle fan for years, when the opportunity came to see Maynard Keenan's other side project, Puscifer, in Baton Rouge last year...it was a road trip I had to make. And I'm glad I did. I've seen literally hundreds of concerts over the years, and that Puscifer show is a solid Top 3 ever...

To celebrate the release of "Lightning Bolt", the new album from Pearl Jam, it's Pearl Jam week on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' - with the band and their music featured all week on the late night talk show. Pearl Jam week opened last night with Soundgarden frontman and Pearl Jam com-padre Chris Cornell covering "Footsteps", the flip-side of the "Jeremy" single, and

On tour now in support of their upcoming album "Going to Hell", The Pretty Reckless stopped by Alter the Press to perform an acoustic version of their new single, the title track of "Going to Hell."

With the global success of "The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol.1" (global #1 best seller) earlier this year, Five Finger Death Punch have high hopes for the second part of the two-album set, due on November 19. The band is preparing for the release with a series of a exclusive track-by-track webisode premieres. The first webisode premiered today.