Interviews

If its title doesn't already hook you in, then just check out this description of the new animated web series, Majestic Loincloth: "For lovers of heavy metal Viking rock opera homoerotic Medieval animated musical cinema, there is finally a cartoon for you...

"One of the things I love about playing in this band is that we get to do cool stuff like play house shows. It's definitely bringing me back to my roots when I would book a tour using that Book Your Own Life guide that Maximum Rock 'N' Roll came out with back in the day...

The metal/hardcore scene in Australia continues to thrive thanks in large part the bands like Northlane, who recently wowed massive hometown crowds at the Soundwave Festival. They've just released a new album called Singularity which is garnering some of the best reviews the band has ever received...

Bob Ezrin, the man behind the board for such classics as Pink Floyd's The Wall, KISS' Destroyer, and Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies and Welcome to My Nightmare, needed some convincing to produce the new album by 40-plus-year institution Deep Purple...

For fans of old-school style industrial rock, there's a band on the scene ready to make its presence known. Dallas-based True Fallacy is the brainchild of Ben Gorena. Today, the band's sophomore album Making the Noise All Go Away is out...

Conceived and created by frontman Lane Steele in 2010, the Los Angeles based groove metal outfit Kauze recently finished tracking material for their first full-length album titled The Rise to Power, slated for a mid 2013 release. They also recorded a kickass new video for the song "12 Rounds," which you can see below...

When frontman Jesse Leach reemerged to rejoin Killswitch Engage in 2012, it was a major turning point for the Western Mass. band. Not only was it a seismic shift from the soaring vocals of Howard Jones (who parted ways with KsE earlier that year)...

Todd Rundgren has long defied any easy sort of characterization. A renowned songwriter, producer, guitar God, technophile and one of the most soulful and interesting singers of his generation, it is fair to say that Rundgren has mined more musical ground than anyone else Noisecreep can think of...

When the new Rob Zombie flick Lords of Salem hits debuts April 19, theater-goers will get more than just a historic-horror flick. They'll also enjoy a soundtrack carefully crafted by guitarist John 5 and Griffin Boyce. The soundtrack marks the first time John 5 has scored an entire film...

"Due to the world I've been part of in creating art for so many years, I feel really connected to pop culture and what younger people are talking about. Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age ...