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This past week, metal releases came out of the woodwork. And with it came eye-popping first week numbers and even a top 10 debut. Reported by the folks at Metal Insider, this past week drew in a #35 debut for the good guys in Shadows Fall with their latest album 'Retribution,' Porucipine Tree came in with 17,500 albums sold in its first week, and the MVP of metal of course goes to long time thrash

Victory Records is reissuing previous Darkest Hour releases 'So Sedated, So Secure' and 'Hidden Hands of Sadist Nation.' It's a common record label tactic, which either delights fans with collector mentalities, or infuriates those who feel snookered when they have to buy the same album twice for the extra odds and sods and bells and whistles...

We're typing slower than usual today, thanks to a little skateboarding accident we were involved in yesterday. Today, it feels like we were caught in a Hatebreed moshpit for ten hours. We were coasting down 8th Avenue on our longboard when a delivery truck cut us off and slammed on its brakes...

To grow, it is often necessary to change. When Darkest Hour were laying the groundwork for their sixth album 'The Eternal Return,' the Washington, D.C.-based melodic death metal band decided musical evolution was their goal, so they set out to challenge themselves and their fans by growing and modifying their sound...

Mike "Lonestar" Carrigan, the second guitarist of Washington D.C.-based melodic death metal band Darkest Hour, may never have relished the expression, "Who gives a flying crap?" But after an experience on a winding Belgium highway during the band's 'Thrash and Burn' European tour, he probably hopes he never hears the phrase again...

Appearances can be deceiving. Washington D.C.-based band Darkest Hour may be on metalcore and deathcore-friendly label Victory Records, and their dress sense might be a little less gnarly than that of Necrophagist, Suffocation, Dying Fetus and other death metal bands on this year's Summer Slaughter Tour, but that doesn't make them any less metal...

Dream Theater - 'Black Clouds & Silver Linings' - Roadrunner This week the legendary Dream Theater releases their tenth studio album, carrying a darker, heavier atmosphere this time around. Has their sound overall changed in the process of making this album? Ab...

Not that this has anything to do with metal or hardcore, but we here at Noisecreep have been watching the events at E3 unfold out west with great anticipation. See, we have a game room here at our disposal (yeah, it pretty much rules), and lately, we've been rocking the revamped 'Punch-Out' for the Wii, which happens to be our favorite system...

Man, what a gorgeous weekend we had here in New York, despite what every single meteorologist told us heading into the holiday. What an awesome job that must be, huh? You can be wrong all the time, and still, no one fires you. Must be nice. Anyways, we've been away for three days now, which means we've got three days of metal news to catch you up on...

It's Tuesday morning, and we've got some killer news to bring you, to start your day off right: Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Apice - or, as they're known to us lay folk, the esteemed Heaven and Hell - will be touring North America later this summer, and the first U...