Neurosis

"Damn it, we missed Lichens," this writer grumbled to her companions as we finally got to Johnny Brenda's, one of Fishtown's nicer venues and home to more hipsters than you can shake an ironically-angled stick at. The bar downstairs hummed contentedly as the regulars settled in to while their nights away over warm PBR and overpriced 'local drafts,' but this cozy scene held nothing for u

The thing about most rock journalists is that they love to label things. The best description for Ancestors, a Los Angeles band fronted by an aspiring legal eagle, would be psychedelic doom rock merchants. But Ancestors doesn't dig on labels...

"Five minutes," A man yells from stage to the crowd filling the bar and halls of Atlanta's Masquerade on Oct. 7. Earlier in the year, this same venue hosted the Scion Rock Fest, which boasted one of those sludgiest and numbingly unforgiving metal festivals to ever happen in the U...

ON A BOAT: Nola sludge kings Eyehategod have a few dates scheduled in the Northeast later this month. The shows feature an impressive supporting cast, including Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore, Anal Cunt, Howl, Unearthly Trance and Tombs, and one of the shows is actually on a boat...

There's a bit of an interesting twist to 'The Trial,' a track from Los Angeles-based psychedelic doom rockers Ancestors, which we here at Noisecreep are proud to be able to bring to you, ahead of the release next week of the band's sophomore LP, 'Of Sound Mind...

To simply say that former Vice Records' founder and current Blackened Music Series creator Adam Shore is a busy guy is an extreme understatement. Fresh off the heels of his Brutal Truth/Pig Destroyer/Repulsion show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple this past July -- an ample offering for the Blackened Music Series' elite, growing roster -- Noisecreep sat down with Shore to discuss what else is in sto

Massive doom supergroup Shrinebuilder -- featuring Scott Kelly of Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot, Scott 'Wino' Weinrich of Saint Vitus/the Obsessed/Spirit Caravan/Hand of Doom, Al Cisneros of Sleep/Om, and Dale Crover of the Melvins -- have released a long-awaited track to their MySpace page and to Kelly's radio blog Return to Zero...

"It's a collaborative record," Converge frontman Jake Bannon told Noisecreep about his band's forthcoming effort, 'Axe to Fall.' "There were a lot of people involved, and it's not just a four-piece band record. We have a diverse group of friends who worked with us on the record...

So, this is going to sound weird. But yesterday, this scribe went to Stamford, Ct. with his fiancée, to sit in on a live taping of 'The Steve Wilkos Show.' Don't judge. We've been a fan of the bald talk show host since his Jerry Springer spin-off started three years ago, mainly because the dude throws chairs when he gets pissed. It's ...

When Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley formed Sunn 0))) in 1998, they had no idea that their genre-defying brand of experimental doom would exist over a decade later. But as their seventh album, 'Monoliths and Dimensions,' draws closer to a release (May 26), Anderson says they didn't necessarily care about leaving their mark on music, either...