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Get ready to celebrate America's birthday with Unearth! The Massachusetts ragers will release their fifth full-length, 'Darkness in the Light,' on July 5th. 'Darkness in the Light' will be the band's most conceptually personal offering to date...

Now that Killswitch Engage are between albums, it seems like a good time for guitarist and songwriter Adam Dutkiewicz to unveil his side project Times of Grace. The band also features Killswitch's original vocalist Jesse Leach, who had suffered his own personal crisis back in 2002 and had to quit the band...

UPDATE: See our final list of the best metal videos of 2010. 2010 has been a great year for metal videos, crying out for a best-of list. Fan-made brutality, animation, space travel -- 2010's had it all. But it's so easy to miss a video in the myriad of premieres, so out of hope that nothing gets left out, we here at Noisecreep offer up our best of the best metal videos so far this year... Read Mor

When Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers left the band, metal fans were legitimately bummed, even though he went on to produce and even filled in for Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz when he was sidelined with a back injury. While he remained friends with his ex-bandmates, Wichers divorced himself from the music and didn't really follow what they were doing musically after he left... Read

Their music is pretty damn serious, but on stage Killswitch Engage have always appeared a bit cartoonish, which explains why the band hired director Jim Starace to create a claymation video for the song 'Save Me.' The clip depicts the band as space explorers who are called into action when vocalist Howard Jones is abducted by aliens while fishing...

"Are you ready to make some memories?" Drowning Pool frontman Ryan McCombs screamed at the ever-growing crowd of kids in the pit at Rock on the Range. The Columbus, Ohio festival went down May 22 and 23 at the Crew Stadium -- an appropriately perfect venue for just the right mix of metal, mud and horrible tattoos...

In some ways, As I Lay Dying's fifth album 'The Powerless Rise' goes out on a limb. In others, the thrash-fueled metal band from San Diego's latest disc, which was released May 11 on Metal Blade Records, hugs a comfort zone. The album's artwork once again came from Converge's Jacob Bannon, and production was taken care of by Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage, who also worked on the As I Lay Dy

As I Lay Dying, 'The Powerless Rise' (Metal Blade): 'The Powerless Rise' is another solid outing for Christian soul rescuers As I Lay Dying. It's teeth-bared metalcore with shreddy riffing and more breakdowns than the shoulder of a major interstate and a smattering of clean vocals...

Having just wrapped up a tour supporting Killswitch Engage and the Devil Wears Prada, Swedish metal sorcerers Dark Tranquillity are wasting no time getting those U.S. work visas ready and processed again. The band will return for a headlining run of North America with Threat Signal and Mutiny Within riding sidecar...

They've been getting by with a little help from their friends Phil Labonte and Jesse Leach, but now Killswitch Engage have announced a handful of spring shows that'll once again feature frontman Howard Jones behind the microphone. Jones sat out for Killswitch Engage's most recent trek with the Devil Wears Prada and Dark Tranquility, leaving the band no choice but to call on All That Remains' Labo