obituary

Founded in 1995, Bridge Nine Records is one of the most influential labels releasing hardcore and punk albums today. Headquartered in Peabody, Mass., the label has issued records by everyone from Agnostic Front and Sick of it All to New Found Glory and H2O...

If you ever though that death metal lacked heart, Obituary drummer Donald Tardy and his wife Heather can shoot that theory straight to hell. The Tardys are on a cat crusade, operating their own Metal Meowlisha charity. The couple cares for 130 stray and feral cats...

Maryland Deathfest performers Watain and Pentagram have contributed songs to a free digital extreme metal compilation that will be distributed at the event by Metalhit.com. Other artists on the collection are Revocation, the Crinn, Wormrot, Graves of Valor, Hail of Bullets, Nominon, Cardiac Arrest, Sectioned, Diabolic, Colonize the Rotting, Aldaaron, Sacrilegious Impalement, Vulvectomy and Othrus.

Over the years, Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell has experienced plenty of pain being in the band. And we're not talking about the emotional distress that came in 2002, when the singer quit in a huff after one fight too many with guitarist Dino Cazares...

Following a collection of tour dates that span the next five months, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder will join Deceased on a West Coast tour in August. Including several dates in California, Arizona and a handful of other states, it'll be Deceased's first time in some of these cities in 25 years...

When it comes to music, Sigh frontman Mirai Kawashima doesn't believe in boundaries. Since he formed the band in 1990, Kawashima has explored elements of jazz, psychedelia, orchestral music and the avant-garde within a foundation of thrash and black metal...

For years now, party anthem architect Andrew W.K. has been defending himself against online allegations that he is, in fact, not one man, but a record label-concocted persona, forged in the spirit of commerce, who's been portrayed on stage and on record by a number of different actors...

"I see why people would put us in that category, and there is a death metal and a hardcore influence there," Through the Eyes of the Dead guitarist Justin Longshore told Noisecreep about the band's categorization as 'deathcore...

Fu Manchu guitarist Bob Balch has launched the educational and entertaining website, PlayThisRiff.com, which offers music lessons to fans by the very artists who perform the songs! "I started PlayThisRiff.com because I wanted to see a website that featured HD videos of actual touring musicians showing others how to play," Balch told Noisecreep...

We reported a few weeks ago that Obituary guitarist Trevor Peres launched his own line of BBQ sauces, which stemmed from his Southern upbringing and watching his grandfather cook. "I spent over a year developin' my original barbecue sauce, and it came out 'Rib'Licioius,'" Peres told Noisecreep...