Justina Villanueva
Municipal Waste Plan to Play ‘Massive Aggressive’ Songs On Upcoming Tours
Municipal Waste has a sort of formula for creating set lists. The thrashers try to play a different variation of songs every night. When the crowd doesn't react well to the band's set, the band learns its lesson. "We don't f---ing play the songs in that order anymore," frontman Tony Foresta told Noisecreep...
Norwegian Musicians Discuss Their Day Jobs at Seminar
"You are so gentlemanly and is so -- direct," Patrizia Mazzuoccolo -- who carefully chose her words -- said to Darkthrone frontman Nocturno Culto.
"Well people would say that we are a bit too direct now ... we just want to be unpopular," he replied...
Municipal Waste Will Have Fun On Stage No Matter What
In the 10 years of Municipal Waste's existence, they have had some interesting experiences and great surprises. Like the time the band played to a hockey stadium filled with 30,000 people while on tour with Lamb of God last year. Or like when Gwar's Odereous parodied frontman Tony Foresta's leg injury by entering the stage in a wheelchair...
Overkill Overcome Times Square Bomb Scare
New York City's Times Square was completely blocked by the time Overkill went on May 1 at 10:30 PM. A bomb scare brought just as many policemen and bomb squad personnel as thrash fans and tourists. In consequence of the potential explosion, authorities told many fans that the show was canceled...
Child Abuse Bring ‘Cut and Run’ to New York
When Child Abuse visited Europe this winter, something happened to the band. I don't know what it was. They don't know what it was, either. But I do know that whatever it was, it made vocalist and keyboardist Luke Calzonetti a different person on stage...
Narrows Have as Much Fun at Shows as Their Fans
"Thanks to everyone who lent us gear. This is none of our stuff," Narrows frontman Dave Verellen said on April 24 when the band played the tiny Cake Shop. The band's only American appearance before heading out to Austria was put together by 1,000 Knives and BrooklynVegan...
Last Swans Album Recorded by Hallux Bassist
In 2002 bassist Jason LaFarge had not yet joined a band named Hallux. Instead, the musician started making his mark as a producer with Seizures Palace Recording. He shared the studio space with Martin Bisi and B.C. Studio at the Old American Can Factory -- which is located in the once industrial Brooklyn neighborhood Gowanus...
Mutant Supremacy to Have a Track on ‘Splatterhouse’ Video Game
While a good majority of the metal world was celebrating loud and heavy music at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival on April 23, a very small minority of Brooklyn, N.Y. was celebrating old-school death metal with Mutant Supremacy...
Easter Are Waiting for Their Name to Get Them Sued
California's Easter -- which includes Anti founder Danny Dean -- started making pop punk in 1984. They toured the world and had music videos on MTV. In the mid '90s, they stopped making music. New York's Easter did not know this when they started their band in 2006...
You Don’t Need to Know Amon Amarth Lyrics to Scream Them
"It doesn't matter if you don't know the lyrics, it's death metal!" yelles Amon Amarth frontman Johan Hegg as he tried to reason with the crowd.
Yet, I don't think the Swedish death metaller realized that: everyone did know the lyrics to 'Pursuit of Vikings' -- which was the last song the band played at Irving Plaza on April 25...