Lamb Of God Music Group

You'd never know it from television, but heavy metal is a whole different beast now than it was in the '80s. Let's play a contrast game, and see if you can guess which two bands are being described. * Band of the 1980s: big hair. Band of today: big beards. * '80s: prom-rock crooning. Today: rasping roar. * '80s: heroin. Today: beer. * '80s: hung out with strippers. Today: hired a hooker -- to clean their bus. * '80s: "Shout at the Devil." Today: "New American Gospel."

You'd never know it from television, but heavy metal is a whole different beast now than it was in the '80s. Let's play a contrast game, and see if you can guess which two bands are being described. * Band of the 1980s: big hair. Band of today: big beards. * '80s: prom-rock crooning. Today: rasping roar. * '80s: heroin. Today: beer. * '80s: hung out with strippers. Today: hired a hooker -- to clean their bus. * '80s: "Shout at the Devil." Today: "New American Gospel."

For 10 years, Ozzfest was every mega-decibel addict's one-stop shop for heavy metal music during the summer, a chance to experience the requisite banging of heads and the brandishing of devil's horns to the quarry-mining accompaniment of a handful of hard rock bands in a festival setting.

For 10 years, Ozzfest was every mega-decibel addict's one-stop shop for heavy metal music during the summer, a chance to experience the requisite banging of heads and the brandishing of devil's horns to the quarry-mining accompaniment of a handful of hard rock bands in a festival setting.

A Forum performance by the heavy metal group Lamb of God has been canceled after the venue's owners, the Faithful Central Bible Church, learned that the band formerly went by the name Burn the Priest. The April 9 show would have been a stop on the band's 43-city tour as one of several supporting acts for Slipknot, the cartoonish metal band that performs in gruesome masks and has songs such as "Pulse of the Maggots" and "Heretic Anthem."

A Forum performance by the heavy metal group Lamb of God has been canceled after the venue's owners, the Faithful Central Bible Church, learned that the band formerly went by the name Burn the Priest. The April 9 show would have been a stop on the band's 43-city tour as one of several supporting acts for Slipknot, the cartoonish metal band that performs in gruesome masks and has songs such as "Pulse of the Maggots" and "Heretic Anthem."