Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In a nearly empty theater on Hollywood Boulevard, Kerry King is making an ominous sound. Showtime is still hours away for the thrash-metal guitarist, who is warming up for his band’s afternoon sound ...

Guitarist Gary Holt joined thrash-metal band Slayer under trying circumstances. His friend Jeff Hanneman, a co-founder of the band and one of its two guitarists, was stricken with necrotizing ...

The heavy metal thrash band, Slayer, has announced a huge show this fall in Hershey. Slayer will perform along with Knocked Loose, Suicidal Tendencies, Power Trip, Cavalera (performing “Chaos A.D.”) ...

Slayer will likely never tour or record new music again. However, that won’t stop the legendary thrash metal band from playing one-off shows from time to time. Recently the band announced a pair of ...

Mustaine founded Megadeth in 1983, shortly after his expulsion from fellow thrash metal heroes Metallica. Apart from a brief ...

Kerry King is part of the legendary "Big 4" of thrash as the guitarist for Slayer, but since they're no longer as active as the other three, he's picked a band that he thinks should take Slayer's ...

Which of these "Big 4" bands is the better thrash band - Anthrax or Megadeth? That's the question at the center of this week's Chuck's Fight Club on the Loudwire Nights radio show. Anthrax represent ...