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There's nothing like sitting down with a cold beer and a big plate of BBQ. Now, we know BBQ enthusiasts go on about the Texas vs. St. Louis thing like Van Halen fans argue about David Lee Roth vs. Sammy Hagar, but it's all good in our book...

When most younger music fans think of Republicans, they probably envision stuffy, conservative squares sitting around talking about religion and good, old fashioned family values. But then there's Gene Simmons. The KISS bassist/vocalist might have bragged about bedding thousands of women during his younger years, but he's also a Republican and proud of it...

Two weeks back, Noisecreep profiled ten top tier metal records to take us all the way to the Mayan calendar melt-down on Dec 21. But why stop at just ten? The likes of Pig Destroyer, As I Lay Dying and The Acacia Strain all have upcoming records worth your attention...

Victory Records Hailing from Kenosha, Wis., Jungle Rot have been administering their blunt style of death metal since the mid-'90s. With six studio albums, a handful of EPs and a live DVD, to their credit, the group has earned a large cult following throughout the globe...

We obviously cover a ton of killer axe-slingers on Noisecreep, but we could safely say that we've yet to feature one that plays a 14-string guitar. Venezuelan guitarist Felix Martin, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee School of Music, recently released an album on Prosthetic Records called Live in Boston that we can't recommend enough...

Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based melodic rockers Oedipus Vicious Little Smile, the group's third studio album. Produced by Darian Cowgill (Sleeping Giant, Middle Class Rut), the album features the tracks "Tres Las," "Burn It Down," and "Gimme a Chance," which have already received airplay in over 30 countries including Poland, Germany, South Africa, Russia, Croat

Indiana tech-metal specialists The Contortionist recently dropkicked us with Intrinsic, their sophomore album. For the album, the quintet collaborated with Eyal Levi (Daath, Job for a Cowboy) and Jason Suecof (Trivium, DevilDriver), a musical marriage that has clearly paid off dividends...

Every August, the lakefronts and shorelines of America swell to the bursting point with sun-crazed vacationeers, plenty of them in black T-shirts. Unfortunately, for some reason the default soundtrack at beaches everywhere seems to be a washed-up flotsam of brain-dead pop hits, lame Jimmy Buffett songs, and useless reggae ...

Featuring members of Sevendust, Creed and Alter Bridge, one would expect a lot of from Projected. As it turns out, the band delivers the goods... and then some. Projected's (Sevendust guitarist John Connolly and bassist Vince Hornsby, Alter Bridge/Creed drummer Scott Phillips, and Tremonti/Creed guitarist Eric Friedman) upcoming debut album, Human, features an army of gigantic choruses and kickass

They say that the apple doesn't fall... oh, screw it! In my daily search of new music and talking with record label publicists, I've noticed that there are a lot of bands featuring the offspring of famous rock musicians. It can't be easy to carve your own niche in this business when your dad has already sold millions of albums, so it takes a a ton of courage for these musicians to go out there and