Classic thrash metal band Forbidden is down a guitarist these days, as they recently announced that Steve Smyth was leaving the band. Having been with the outfit from 2009 to 2012 and then again from ...

The revolving door of guitarists that exists in Forbidden has turned once again, as the band and Voivod’s Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain have parted ways. In his place, they’ve recruited Jeremy Von Epp. As ...

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 ...