One month before Pelican release their fourth album, 'What We All Come to Need,' the Chicago instrumental heavyweights join label mates Sunn 0))), Earth and Eagle Twin for a show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in New York City. This veritable Southern Lord Records showcase is part of the Blackened Music Series, but it effectively previews Pe
Candiria were one of the first fusion metal bands. The Brooklynites combined metal with free jazz time signatures, so much so that innovation was the band's middle name. But after a serious van accident nearly killed the band, Candiria began flying below the radar. Guitarist John
Vinyl records should have been something dead and buried when the digital age took its big thick grasp, as the number one music store in the country became a digital one. But the truth is, vinyl might be a driving force, helping keep the aching music industry alive -- especially in the underground metal and punk community, which is what Eric Mueller from Pirate P
The tides where changing in hardcore in the late '90s -- a new sound was emerging, one of chaos with metal in its veins. This change in hardcore is where bands like Cave In, Coalesce, Botch and Dillinger Escape Plan forced themselves into existence and led many hardcore kids to dump their basketball jerseys and Jnco parachute shorts for more fitting clothes, and, in some cases, grab the pomade.
One band ushering in the change was Vermont's Drowningman, who to
August is slowly drawing to a close, with tour and festival season finally winding down, and the school season is beginning to start up again for the young metalheads. Keeping close tabs on album sales each week with our buddies at Metal
Two weeks ago, when we were at the New Jersey stop of the Rockstar Mayhem Fest, we bought a Snapple. It came in a plastic bottle, but the woman we handed our $7 to for the drink ended up opening it, and poured the iced tea into a plastic cup. We
Dear Ozzy Osbourne: We know that breakups can be tough. But listen ... it's time to cut the cord already. It's best to end it swiftly ... like pulling off a band-aid. So, why don't you just pick up the phone, or send an email, or have your lawyers call his lawyers ... whatever way you
If you like the musical-landscape-mixing melodies and heavy drone of Justin Broadrick's main gig Jesu, he has a warning for you in regard to his newest musical venture Greymachine.
"I am making it an issue of warning people that are fans of Jesu, espec
Barbecue? Check. Meats? Check. Booze? Check. Fireworks we scored over the weekend in New Jersey, because they're illegal in New York? Check. Sounds like we're ready for the Fourth of July weekend. Are you? The gang here at Noisecreep loves July Fourth, so much so that it's our favorite holiday, because, let's face it, Independence Day is rather metal. We