Mayhem

Black metal is ugly music for ugly people. Jagged chords, Jesus-punching lyrics, subterranean production values and spine-tingling death rattles, all overlain with the stench of decay and lingering misanthropy -- that's what black metal is made of (if you're doing it right, anyway)...

Before the music started, smoke machines pushed out enough fog to fill Brooklyn Masonic Temple Sept. 22. The same venue where Repulsion played 'Horrified' in its entirety, sold out for the biggest doom show of 2009: Sunn 0))) with Earth, Pelican and Eagle Twin...

Helmuth, the frontman for Austrian "guitar music" band Belphegor, is one serious dude. Look at that picture and tell us that's not a serious man. And yes, he's serious about 'Walpurgis Rites -- Hexenwahn,' his band's forthcoming record. It's a monster of a release that lands in stores on Oct...

THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER: Legendary Australian black metallers Nazxul have been confirmed for the 2010 edition of the Maryland Death Fest, marking the band's first-ever performance on North American soil. They are currently plotting a full North American tour in support of their new album Iconoclast, the band's first full-length since their classic debut, 'Totem,' in 1995...

Usually after a 30-city tour, a band's last show is the smelliest. However, when Bloody Panda played the last show of the Summon Tour at Union Pool on Aug. 21, the band was in fresh, clean clothes. It must've felt good for them to be home, because their set was one of the best I've seen from them yet...

Not many people would think to set the music and look of black metal warriors Dimmu Borgir to the graphic novel medium, but Brian Ferrara, an impassioned metal fan and author of 'Dimmu Borgir: Dark Fortress,' was up for the challenge. "We decided to do the book because I always wanted to crossover my passion for metal into the medium I work in," Ferrara told Noisecreep...

FEEBLE SCREAMS FROM FORESTS UNKNOWN: In a recent interview with a Norwegian magazine, Dagbladet, Burzum mastermind Varg "Count Grishnakh" Vikernes has revealed that he has already written nine songs for an upcoming Burzum album, which he hopes to release next year...

So, a stage prop breaks your nose and knocks you on your a-- on national television. What do you do? Try to glean as much press from the incident as you can, while people still care. That seems to be Poison frontman Bret Michaels' agenda this week...

Man, what a gorgeous weekend we had here in New York, despite what every single meteorologist told us heading into the holiday. What an awesome job that must be, huh? You can be wrong all the time, and still, no one fires you. Must be nice. Anyways, we've been away for three days now, which means we've got three days of metal news to catch you up on...

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...