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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

The madmen behind America's biggest heavy metal party, Maryland Deathfest, have recently announced that the reunited Gorguts have confirmed an appearance at this year's festival. In addition, the following bands have recently been confirmed for MDF 2010, including Possessed, Asphyx (Netherlands), Necrophobic (Sweden), Sadistic Intent and the Chasm...

Great success! Yesterday, hopped up on caffeine and fresh from listening to the new Black Dahlia Murder, we sat down in the AOL studios for our second official Creep Show podcast, and it was awesome. We had two of the guys from Evile in the studio to talk about thrash and racism in metal...

Is it Monday already? Man, our weekends just seem to fly by. We can't believe its almost August already, and we also can't believe Fred Durst is actually married, but more on that later. This morning's White Noise is teeming with all of the weekend's heavy metal and hardcore news...

Yesterday, more than a billion sets of eyes watched as a packed Staples Center bid a final farewell to the King of Pop. Let's hope that, starting today, the world begins to move on from Jackson's premature passing, because the truth is, people die everyday...

Killswitch Engage - 'Killswitch Engage' - Roadrunner This week, the fifth studio album from the Westfield, Mass. quintet releases to the masses. With the album having been available for streaming since June 22, audiences have taken to some amazing singles on the album including "The Reckoning" and "Starting Over...

What do you do when one of your fans passes out while partying with after a show...a fan who'd traveled all the way from San Diego to support your band in Mexico the next night? Well, if you're Warbringer's John Kevill, you don't leave that fan on the streets, you load his blacked-out ass into your van, and get back out there on the road...

Welcome to Monday, folks. Is it just us, or do the weekends just fly by like Bruce Dickinson? We're just going to blast Inquisition all morning until we feel better. Anyways, it was a gorgeous weekend here in New York City, and its looking like the week may be just as beautiful...

Open any hard rock publication these days and you'd be hard-pressed to not see some kind of coverage on a death metal band. The once vilified genre is everywhere these days. Not only are Job For A Cowboy t-shirts flying off the shelves at your local Hot Topic, a recent episode of Fox TV's 'Bones' based an entire storyline around a fictional Norwegian death metal band...

Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner is thrilled that after a decade of working on his Burning Human project, the band's music will finally see the light of day via the blood-spattered, death metal opus, 'Resurrection Through Fire,' which was produced by Obituary/Disincarnate guitarist James Murphy, who also laid down more than a few brain-bashing solos on the platter...