PorcupineTree

Several months ago, Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy told Noisecreep that the state of progressive music was as healthy as it has ever been. Porcupine Tree are living proof that he knows what he's talking about. Earlier in the week, the band's 10th studio album, 'The Incident,' debuted in the top 25 of Billboard's album chart, selling 17,500 copies...

This past week, metal releases came out of the woodwork. And with it came eye-popping first week numbers and even a top 10 debut. Reported by the folks at Metal Insider, this past week drew in a #35 debut for the good guys in Shadows Fall with their latest album 'Retribution,' Porucipine Tree came in with 17,500 albums sold in its first week, and the MVP of metal of course goes to long time thrash

Tomorrow's going to be fun. Unfortunately, our editor, Seth Werkheiser, is going to be out of town for this week's podcast, but the good news is Satyricon is this week's special guest. Robert Pasbani from Metal Injection will also be on hand to talk metal with us, so that should be awesome ...

In their music, Orange County, Calif. band Atreyu combine crushing riffs and harrowing howls with infectious hooks and sugar-sweet vocal melodies, conveying a wide range of emotional expression from pensive to furious. In conversation they're pretty much the same -- just without all the screaming...

What a friggin' tease! We awoke this morning, thinking that today was the day Alice in Chains' 'Black Give Way to Blue' would finally be in stores, only to discover that the Internet lied. Not the whole Internet. Just a few metal sites we've come to trust...

Another long week is in the books, and we're excited for the taping of our next podcast. Today's guests will be Atreyu, and we'll have the usual cast of characters in to discuss the week's new releases (like Porcupine Tree's 'The Incident') and all the latest heavy metal headlines...

Teutonic funeral doom maestros Ahab recently launched their latest foray into the world of the down-tuned via Napalm Records. The nautically-themed band has followed the sea trail they first embarked upon with 2006's 'The Oath' EP to deliver 'The Divinity of Oceans,' a melancholy yet crushing masterwork...

On Friday, we caught up with Poison the Well at the "10 for $10" show in New York, and spent some quality time with the boys in their van, which is fast approaching the 200,000-mile mark. All the hardcore kids who showed up seemed rather mellow, at least for the festival's Manhattan stop...

There was this one time when I made up a story about a fight I had been in. It was back when I was in grade school, and this kid who was two or three years older than me, and used to pick on my all the time (we lived in the same neighborhood) got his proverbial a-- handed to him by a bunch of high school kids...

For many Porcupine Tree fans, 2002's 'In Absentia' was perfection. It was one of those rare albums you can listen to all the way through, without skipping over a single track. Frontman Steven Wilson freely admits 'In Absentia' may very well be the band's crowning achievement, but thinks 'The Incident' (which is subtitled 'After This, Things Will Never Be the Same Again') gives 'Absentia' a run for