Darkthrone

Last year, when Noisecreep was a neophyte site, we interviewed filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, who filmed an unflinching and compelling look at the black metal scene -- the documentary 'Until the Light Takes Us' -- which included pre-release interviews with formerly jailed, polarizing black metal maven Varg Vikernes...

"You are so gentlemanly and is so -- direct," Patrizia Mazzuoccolo -- who carefully chose her words -- said to Darkthrone frontman Nocturno Culto. "Well people would say that we are a bit too direct now ... we just want to be unpopular," he replied...

Metalheads are some of the most devoted music fans on the planet. Not only do we voraciously devour new music like no one else, we also can't enough information about the artists we love. Now more than ever, it seems like there's a press release on floating around every other week about a heavy metal-related book hitting stores...

Back in September, Atakke played at New York's Europa with Howl and Toxic Holocaust. Just seven months after Noisecreep reported their show, the death metallers were on the same stage again. This time around they opened the minds and clogged the ears of Brooklynites before Castevet, Krallice and Ludicra could get on stage...

Last week was another healthy week of hard rock sales, with Scorpions scanning 18,500 records of what is reported to be their final album. Perhaps there is power in the suggestion of goodbye. New Jersey's beloved Dillinger Escape Plan debuted at 6 on the hard rock charts, selling 7,136 units...

Burzum -- the name itself means 'darkness,' and the mere mention of mastermind Varg Vikernes heralds an intense reaction, be it negative or positive. There are few more polarizing figures within extreme metal than Vikernes, who is now almost better known for his violent past and extreme ideologies than for his music...

Black metal veterans Darkthrone have a new album lying in wait -- and what better way to preview the album and tease the die-hards than to set up a mini-website for the forthcoming 'Circle the Wagons'? The site includes all the expected modern fancies like wallpapers, web banners, galleries and track samples...

If 'Circle the Wagons' sounds like an unlikely title from black metal veterans Darkthrone, that's perfectly fine with them. The less they're associated with contemporary or conventional black metal, the better. "The typical sound of the 90s black metal -- bands that started in the '90s copying bands an early '90s style -- is and has always been dead to me," multi-instrumentalist Fenriz

"Not to toot my own horn too loudly, but we outdid ourselves and we worked harder than we ever have in our entire lives, more than any other bands we've ever been in. We tried to make it special and make it something that you want to listen to from beginning to end," Abscess drummer/vocalist Chris Reifer told Noiecreep about the band's new, dirty death-punk album, 'The Dawn of Inhumanit

When most people think of an album, they envision a concrete body of work that represents the personal, musical and emotional development an artist has undergone over a particular period of time. Many musicians themselves describe their songs as snapshots taken over a creative cycle, and the finished product as a sonic photo album...