At The Gates

Judging from Mnemic's fourth album, 'Sons of the System,' it's pretty clear that the band members have eclectic musical tastes. The way vocalist Guillaume Bideau combines hellfire screams with steely melodic vocals and keyboard samples is definitely reminiscent of Fear Factory, the intermingling of machine-gun beats, blowtorch riffs and angular rhythms is redolent of Meshuggah and the abrupt stac

Over the next few weeks, extreme Israeli metal band Salem will be putting up songs on an individual basis to build the anticipation towards their next album. Titled 'Playing God and Other Short Stories,' the 12-song LP will include a cover of Bob Marley's 'Exodus' as well as two vocal appearances by At the Gates' frontman Tomas Lindberg...

On Feb. 6, Noisecreep gate-crashed New York City's famed Brill Building like the hoodlums we are to attend Earache's invite-only screening for the new At the Gates DVD. The mammoth, three-disc set is entitled 'Flames to the End' after the haunting instrumental closer on their genre-defining classic album, 'Slaughter of the Soul,' and will be out on Feb...

Swedish melodic death metallers At the Gates will commemorate their six-year recording career and recent reunion tour with a special value-packed 'Ultimate Collectors Box Set,' which will drop in March. It's a must-have for longtime fans of the influential band, which officially split in 1996 before reuniting for shows in 2007 and 2008...

Before the Haunted and Cradle of Filth reached their peaks, various members were a part of At the Gates, a Swedish death metal band that disbanded around 1995. Just last year, they reunited for a one-off tour that was well-received around the world...

Sweden's Hypocrisy continue their nearly two-decade career with the next brutal installment, 'A Taste of Extreme Divinity,' out on Nuclear Blast. Slinging the paint for this release is fellow countryman Kristian Wåhling, who also goes under the name of Necrolord. The ...

Jamie Hanks is in the back of a van somewhere in America's mid-section, and he's repeating what must his band's mantra. In summation, it's that Those Who Lie Beneath, the Portland, Ore.-based death metal band he fronts, want to be as brutal and evil as possible...

"I'm really glad the Wu-Tang Clan got represented, I love that s---," Municipal Waste vocalist Tony Foresta tells Noisecreep, referring to his 'Your iPod is Showing' submission. The list begins with the Wu's 'Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' ta F--- Wit' and also features Ghostface Killah's 'Assassination Day...

On Oct. 27, Gwynbleidd, a band that formed back in 2002, will issue its debut LP, 'Nostalgia,' an impressive, punishing collection of progressive black metal that's imbued with slight black and folk metal elements. The album is a real monster, and Noisecreep is proud to be able to bring you an exclusive first listen of the forthcoming disc...

For about five years, Decibel magazine Editor-in-Chief Albert Mudrian and his staff of writers collected the stories behind metal's genre-defining landmark albums through the publication's 'Hall of Fame' interview series. Now, the best stories have been compiled into the book 'Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces' (DaCapo Press)...