Opeth

Embryonic Devourment is not a band for the weak of stomach. Not just musically -- with its doomcore bombast. The name is enough to put you off your breakfast, too. "I just got done having some embryonic devourment actually," singer/bassist Austin Spence tells Noisecreep...

Opeth's 'Porcelain Heart' is a progressive masterpiece, depicting staples of the genre's virtuosity: loss and apathy. Band: Opeth Song: 'Porcelain Heart' Album: 'Watershed' Download Opeth Songs

Ian Christe is a heavy metal renaissance man. Not only has he written for everyone from Spin to Metal Maniacs, he's also released music as Dark Noerd and in 2007 he launched his own book publishing house called Bazillion Points. Since then he released Daniel Ekeroth's 'Swedish Death Metal,' the unofficial bible for the beloved scene...

Guitar, bass and drums are the conventional instrumentation for nearly all heavy metal. Some bands have also used organs or synthesizers, and throughout the history of the genre, a select few have utilized the Mellotron, a magnetic-tape keyboard originally invented as the Chamberlin organ in a California garage in the late 1940s...

If you haven't already heard Katatonia's 'Night Is the New Day,' hold off on compiling that top 10 list for the year. The Swedish metallers, who are coming up on their 20th anniversary, outdid themselves on their latest effort, which, in short, sounds like Opeth's 2001 classic 'Blackwater Park' with clean vocals...

The last decade was kind to heavy metal. Not only did veteran acts release some of their most exciting work, a flurry of new bands also came out of nowhere to demand their place among the greats. Noisecreep recently compiled lists of the best songs and albums of the past decade and it's been nothing short of controversial...

It's hard to imagine but revered Swedish heavy metallers Opeth have been around for 20 years. Two decades of unrelenting, sinister metal, spread out over nine stunning studio releases. To celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, Opeth will be playing a series of exclusive shows all around the globe ...

When Gwynbleidd played at Union Pool, they left the wintry night chill outside. There were just too many drunk and still-full-from-Thanksgiving headbangers excited to see the progressive and folky death metallers for the place to be cold. But once the intro sample trickled in the small Union Pool, the room felt more like a cabin in the middle of nowhere than a block away from the Lorimer stop on t

Although the mainstream largely shunned heavy metal in the 1990s, the last decade found our music getting more attention that it's ever gotten. Some of the finest releases the music has ever had were released from 2000 to 2009 and shows like VH1's 'The Metal Show' have proved very successful in the ratings game...

This is the time of year where music magazines and websites go list crazy and Noisecreep is no different. If you're a regular reader here, you already know how much we love creating top 10 lists about the metal world. With the decade coming to a close, we decided to take a look back at all of the fine music that came out throughout the years...