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In their music, Orange County, Calif. band Atreyu combine crushing riffs and harrowing howls with infectious hooks and sugar-sweet vocal melodies, conveying a wide range of emotional expression from pensive to furious. In conversation they're pretty much the same -- just without all the screaming...

In 2009, deathcore is bumping. So many bands fuse blast beats and lightning quick riffery with alternating guttural vocals. It's this year's metalcore, so to speak. But Despised Icon -- who just released 'Day of Mourning,' an album so vicious it'll slice your jugular and drain you of your platelets -- are stepping away from the 'deathcore' tag, purposely...

Just this past week, metal took the stage with some amazing debuts from some beloved bands of the genre, as well as fresh new faces in the scene. Reported from the good foks at Metal Insider, the acoustic guitar act Rodrigo y Gabriela came in with an amazing start of over 13,000 albums sold in its first week with their newest '11:11'; the Century Media outfit 3 Inches of Blood picked up a #195 deb

Montreal's Despised Icon were one of the featured attractions on the Thrash and Burn Tour, with seven bands appearing before them and two performing after them. While the band loved their time on the tour, it wasn't a walk in the park. "We've been doing a lot of night drives and not showering," vocalist Alex Erian told Noisecreep during the tour...

In the province of Quebec, there are a few rogue sects of Canada's French minority who have proposed seceding from the country altogether. Death metal heavyweights Despised Icon hail from Quebec and are proud of their heritage -- but they certainly aren't secessionists...

If you're a regular reader of this site, then you probably already know we've been podcasting over here at Noisecreep. Last week, Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair, fresh from performing on Jimmy Fallon's show, swung by the studios to hang with us during the taping and to talk about the band's new album, 'Retribution,' which hit stores on Tuesday...

Attention class, metal is back in session for the month of September -- as if it ever really went away. With a myriad of new metal and rock releases coming in, veterans of the genre Ace Frehley and Megadeth are making their appearance right back in the spotlight...

Are DevilDriver -- a band formed in 2002 -- elder statesmen of the metal scene? While that sounds like something out of an alternate universe, it's definitely been the case with the Thrash and Burn tour, which stopped in New York in early August...

It's difficult to pin down the meaning behind the artwork adorning Augury's second album, 'Fragmentary Evidence.' A hooded figure stand atop a mountain in the middle of a downpour. His arms are spread out as if welcoming us to the picturesque scene...

We've made it to another Friday. And today, a bunch of us will be getting together in one of AOL's recording studios to do our very first podcast. Pretty soon, you'll be able to not only read our words, but hear our unusual voices. Unusual because we're sure we sound nothing like you might imagine...