As I Lay Dying

It may have an unassuming, unflashy name, but the first annual Cool Tour is quickly ascending to hot ticket status this summer. The tour kicks off July 12 and is sponsored by Metal Blade, Atticus Black by Atticus Clothing and Musician's Institute College of Contemporary Music...

Grab some popcorn and your fellow metalhead friends, or set your DVRs if you already have plans, for 10 PM ET tomorrow night, May 22, as the Second Annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which occurred on April 8, will be broadcast on VH1 Classic...

Strained relationships are a traditional premise when it comes time for metal band to write their lyrics, and there's no relationship that can affect someone's psychology more than the one we have with our parents. Leroy Hamp, vocalist for Erie Pa's War of Ages uses the relationship he had with his father to his advantage...

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

At first glance, the video for 'Collapse' from War of Ages might seem incredibly no-frills, as it shows the band in performance mode, rocking out with a god-fearing vengeance to the first song on their new album, 'Eternal,' which is out now via Facedown Records...

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...

If you've discovered metal over the past decade of so, it's possible that Minnesota thundergods Disembodied might have fallen through the cracks. The hardcore metal band, which formed in 1995 created a pair of brain-rattling records, 1999's 'The Diablerie' and 2000's 'Heretic' before fragmenting into the melodic death metal/metalcore band Martyr AD...

Talk about a lineup! Christian metalcore act As I Lay Dying, who will be releasing a new record called 'The Powerless Rise' next month, have revealed their plans for the inaugural Cool Tour, which will also feature Underoath, Between the Buried and Me and a host of other bands...

Facedown Records is one the preeminent names in the Christian metal scene, so Noisecreep decided to talk to founder Jason Dunn about the label's philosophies, key releases over the years, swimming with sharks -- which isn't a metaphor for the music industry feeding frenzy -- and why the annual Facedown Fest was canceled this year...

"It's an honor to be nominated" is usually just a cliché people spout when they've lost an award. But in the case of the Devil Wears Prada at the recent Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles (which airs on VH1 Classics May 22) that tried and true adage is sincere. Losin...