Members of Testament and Pantera have slammed Metallica's 1996 album Load in a new book about the thrash giants' frontman James Hetfield.

Members of Queensryche, Dokken, Ratt, Black Sabbath, Dio, Alice Cooper, Testament, and Y&T have all donating their time to perform on New Year's Eve at a benefit concert for Y&T's bassist Phil Kennemore.

Prosthetic Records will reissue Testament's out-of-print 1995 hometown show album

Vicious Rumors have inked a deal Steamhammer/SPV for the world (except Japan) who will release the band's new CD

Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Simon Wright from Dio, Brent Smith, Zach Myers and Eric Bass of Shinedown, Kerry King and Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel of Machine Head, Chuck Billy from Testament, Chris Howorth and Maria Brink of In This Moment are just some of the rockers who will appear at Dimebash 2010