Christina O'Neill

Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes will release album Modern Ruin on January 20 – before they tour Europe with Biffy Clyro

Blink-182 and AFI's Davey Havok were honoured for their investment in animal rights at the PETA2 Libby Awards

Music Venue Association is rallying clubs and bars in Austin in a legal bid to halve liquor tax rates and boost local music industry

Pantera ex Phil Anselmo says Machine Head's Robb Flynn and Anthrax's Scott Ian don't understand 'heavy implications' of branding him racist

Asking Alexandria frontman Danny Worsnop schedules 'intimate performances' in Leeds and Kingston to promote debut country album, The Long Road Home

Listen to 3-track promo for Blackfield's forthcoming album V – the project from Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson and Israeli songwriter Aviv Geffen

Sock Puppet Parody release their 3rd Immortal Christmas song

Watch Steel Panther's promo for new single Anything Goes – lifted from upcoming album Lower The Bar

Eyehategod's Mike Williams has undergone successful liver transplant surgery – less than a month after crowdfunding campaign for treatment smashed its target

Rival Sons have made their live album from Download Paris 2016 available to stream

Former Misfits guitarist Doyle to launch album As We Die and commence European tour in 2017

Watch Volbeat's live performance for Dead But Rising at Germany's Rock Im Park festival earlier this year

Enter Shikari celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album Take To The Skies with a run of North American shows in spring 2017

Watch Coheed And Cambria's video for Colors – which they call a 'tribute' to all their fans

Anthrax and Killswitch Engage will join forces under the Killthrax banner for a North American tour in 2017 – with support from The Devil Wears Prada

Canadian act Danko Jones will release 8th album Wild Cat in March, followed by a spring European tour

DevilDriver to tour North America with Death Angel, Winds Of Plague and The Agonist in February and March next year

Watch Finnish outfit Hexvessel perform at Menuo Juoadaragis Festival in the national forest of Lithuania

British psychedelic outfit The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown announce 2017 Zim Zam Zim US tour – their first run of live shows since 1969

The Damned Things, featuring members of Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die, Anthrax and Volbeat, are working on a new record

Watch Opeth's behind-the-scenes promo for their biggest ever UK headline show at London's SSE Wembley Arena last month

Study shows men playing Operation became more distracted and made more mistakes when listening to AC/DC than when they listened to classical music

Five Finger Death Punch changed lyrics to The Bleeding on teleprompter being used by guest vocalist Phil Labonte

Listen to Jethro Tull's new song Pass The Bottle (A Christmas Song) from forthcoming String Quartets album

Vivian Campbell confirms Last In Line will record 2nd album in 2017 – and he hopes to replicate the Dio-esque sound of this year's Heavy Crown