Chad Bowar

Formed shortly after the legendary singer’s death two years ago, the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer research. The organization’s second Awards Gala is set for Halloween night (Oct. 31) at the Avalon in Hollywood, Calif.

Bullet for My Valentine premiered a new song ‘Temper Temper’ yesterday (Oct. 22) on BBC Radio 1, and now have made the audio of the track available on YouTube (listen below).

With the presidential election just over two weeks away, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has teamed up with filmmaker Jesse Dylan in a video encouraging people to vote only for Congressional candidates that support the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare (watch below).

The first half of Stone Sour‘s two part concept album ‘House of Gold & Bones Part 1′ is out today (Oct. 22), and the album is available for streaming at AOL Music.

Stone Sour‘s album ‘House of Gold & Bones Part 1‘ will be released next week, and the band’s guitarist Josh Rand spoke with Roadrunner Records about it.

It has been a while since we’ve heard anything about the progress of Black Sabbath‘s upcoming album, but Metal Injection has uncovered some details about the recordings, including a song title.

As anticipation builds for the Nov. 13 release of ‘Koi No Yokan,’ Deftones have released a lyric video for the album’s first single ‘Tempest’ (watch below).

Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer has taken his experimental rock side project Fear and the Nervous System on the road for the first time, playing two shows over the weekend in California. He has also unveiled a documentary on the project (watch below).

After a string of successful parody singles in the ’80s, the career of Weird Al Yankovic hit a lull. However, he rebounded with ‘Smells Like Nirvana’ from 1992′s ‘Off the Deep End,’ and Yankovic recently spoke with Spin about the parody of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ near the 20th anniversary of its release.

As anticipation builds for the Oct. 22 release of Stone Sour‘s fourth album ‘House of Gold & Bones Part 1,’ the band has released the video for ‘Gone Sovereign.’

Several months ago it was revealed that Slipknot / Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor was one of the artists recording music with Foo Fighters frontman / ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl for the latter’s ;Sound City’ documentary. Now Taylor has revealed more about the collaboration in an interview with Phoenix radio station KUPD (watch below).

Three Days Grace and Papa Roach make strong showings on the latest Billboard 200 album chart, as both bands’ new discs debut in the Top 20.