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Vans get stolen, trailers get raided for their equipment, but most bands never get to see the person or people that turned part of a tour into an ordeal. However, last night two members of Hull did, and they saw a gun. Soon after transforming the crowd at Saturday's Planet Caravan festival in Asheville, N...

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 Press told Noisecreep in an intervie

Something was different about Batillus Aug. 21, when they transformed Brooklyn's Union Pool back bar into a swampy house of doom. I had seen them before. They were one of the openers at a Show No Mercy doom showcase, which included Ocean and Salome...

So, we were at a show last week, and noticed something strange. See, we realize it's uncouth to wear a band shirt to that same band's concert. It's like wearing an 'I Love New York' shirt in Times Square. We see dudes all the time when we go to shows wearing shirts with the logos of bands on the bill, and it almost always inspires a smart-ass remark...

Getting the chance to chat with your favorite musicians about what gets their toes tapping is always an interesting experience. It usually yields a few more surprises than you might expect (like the time Blake Judd from Nachtmystium got all giddy over my roommate's Steely Dan records – but that's another story). Nois...

Everyone's got that one band that started them down the left-hand path of enlightenment, to their ultimate heavy metal nirvana. For some people, it was Kiss; for others, Black Sabbath. The times, they are a-changing, and nowadays it very well may be a band like Shadows Fall or Mastodon that lures the young folk in and teaches them the ways of the riff...

Virginia' based doomhaulers Salome have been everywhere lately, playing shows up and down the East Coast, swinging by Atlanta to rock with the best of 'em, and blowing out eardrums across the globe with their devilishly decimating brand of riff worship...