melvins

Vinyl records should have been something dead and buried when the digital age took its big thick grasp, as the number one music store in the country became a digital one. But the truth is, vinyl might be a driving force, helping keep the aching music industry alive -- especially in the underground metal and punk community, which is what Eric Mueller from Pirate Press told Noisecreep in an intervie

Attention class, metal is back in session for the month of September -- as if it ever really went away. With a myriad of new metal and rock releases coming in, veterans of the genre Ace Frehley and Megadeth are making their appearance right back in the spotlight...

Trevor Dunn has always been a bass player to count on. He always does his job, and he changes the game when it fits. This goes for the actual bands he's been, in like Mr. Bungle, and when he's a hired bassist like on the recent Melvins' anniversary tour...

Barbecue? Check. Meats? Check. Booze? Check. Fireworks we scored over the weekend in New Jersey, because they're illegal in New York? Check. Sounds like we're ready for the Fourth of July weekend. Are you? The gang here at Noisecreep loves July Fourth, so much so that it's our favorite holiday, because, let's face it, Independence Day is rather metal...

Ten years into their existence, Sunn 0))) (pronounced 'Sun") continue to confound, blurring the line between distorted post-rock and experimental music. And while their vision remains unchanged, their acceptance over the last decade has afforded the band the time and ability to experiment even more, which is evident on their seventh album, 'Monoliths and Dimensions,' which comes out on May 26

Want tangible proof that the scene chatter and message board rumblings of snobs, elitists, shit talkers and neophytes barely and rarely penetrate the creative process or the mindset of bands? When asked how he felt about the term 'hipster' metal, however wrongly or rightly, being applied to his band, Isis' Aaron Turner told Noisecreep, "I wasn't aware that was a tag commonly applied to our mu