Chimaira

"Any old school motherf---ers in here?" Dying Fetus vocalist and guitarist John Gallagher shouted to a packed Starland Ballroom. Half of the room jagged their horns in the air. Yet it's a pretty safe bet half of that room was not even born when Gallagher and former bassist Jason Netherton formed Dying Fetus and wrote the band's first demos in the early '90s...

I've always maintained that animals like metal. I remember years ago, when Opeth's 'Blackwater Park' first came out, my cat Dante would always fall asleep when I'd put it on, regardless of how loud the volume was -- Iced Earth, Strapping Young Lad, Theory in Practice and Dillinger Escape Plan also worked...

Over the course of his career as the frontman of Chimaira, vocalist Mark Hunter has been waving the flag for American heavy metal. But the aggression doesn't end once he's offstage. Hunter is a mixed martial arts enthusiast whose early interest in karate was supplemented by a subsequent appreciation of Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu...

We previously reported that Daath guitarist Eyal Levi nearly died two weeks ago while on tour, after a bout with a particularly nasty strain of pneumonia. Noisecreep spoke to Levi exclusively while he was recovering in Atlanta, under doctor's orders...

Anyone who has heard heavy metal producer Jason Suecof's old project Crotchduster knows the man who calls himself a "fat, crippled Jew" has a phenomenal sense of humor. Ultimately, Crotchduster wasn't a serious band at all, but rather a joke project and a statement on a scene that rarely laughs at itself, or very frequently takes itself way too seriously...

If this past weekend was a slow one, news-wise, Monday has more than made up the difference. Band breakups, baby births, broken noses, potato heads. We're not even sure where to start this gloriously rainy morning. Perhaps we'll start with an update on what was hands-down the biggest story on the Web yesterday, and an instant viral classic: Bret Michaels taking one to the honker...

They say the news is always happening, but this weekend, the metal news took something of a respite. Seriously. It was a rather slow two days, probably because everyone was outside and far from their computers. Here in New York City, at least, we had two solid straight days of sunshine...

THE INFECTION SPREADS: So Rasputin was one of the most feared men in Russia, now they have to prepare for Chimaira and the metal. Confirmed in September Ferret Music's Chimaira will be making some stops in Russia starting off in St. Petersburg, and wrapping up in the Ukraine...

TGIFF, right? Man, it was a busy week for us here at Noisecreep, and now, it's time to let our headbangin' hair down for the long weekend. We ended the week on a high note, though. The dudes from Bury Your Dead stopped by our offices yesterday, and they talked to us about their new album and that van accident they all barely walked away from last fall...

Last week was a huge one for metal, because last Tuesday (April 21), three huge metal records hit stores: Chimaira's The Infection, Daath's The Concealers, and Lacuna Coil's Shallow Life. This week, we find out how the album's faired on the Billboard albums sales chart...