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Wake up! Sleep have just released 'The Clarity,' their first new song over a decade!

It's time to wake up, because cult fave sludge merchants Sleep are heading back on the road this summer. The Nor Cal-based band has announced three new North American tour dates. Sleep last toured in September of 2009 on their Marijuanaut's Return tour, riffing their way through a handful of dates that nearly reduced many a venue to a pile of rubble and ash...

Sleep was away for over 10 years. In the interim we got Om and High on Fire, two undeniably amazing bands for the sludge-adoring crowd. But neither is responsible for the inspirational monster that is 'Sleep's Holy Mountain' and the epic one-song long 'Jerusalem...

When High on Fire Frontman Matt Pike swung by the Noisecreep offices earlier this year for a podcast interview he told us that he was getting his influential '90s stoner metal band Sleep back together in the fall for brief U.S. tour. At the time we were stoked, but a little skeptical since the band had only played two shows since breaking up in 1997...

Before he was in the earthshaking metal band High on Fire, frontman Matt Pike was pulling the reigns for groundbreaking stoner metal pioneers Sleep, which released the influential 'Sleep's Holy Mountain' (1992) and the posthumous 'Dopesmoker' (2003)...

Up and comers Black Pyramid will make like Judas Priest and head out to the highway to tour with Let the Night Roar. Haven't heard of Black Pyramid yet? Don't worry, you will. And you can thank Noisecreep for tipping you off about this psych rock band first...

Carl Porcaro and Chris Skowronski of Killing Time have joined forces with Uppercut vocalist Steve Murphy for a doomy side band dubbed Kings Destroy, which are storming forth out of the mean streets of Brooklyn. They're more like Yob or the Melvins than they are like Killing Time...

Now that Scion's second annual metal extravaganza has come, seen, conquered and gone, we metal folk have some time to breathe easy (until Maryland Deathfest, anyway) and reflect upon shows gone by. During the blessed downtime, this Noisecreep writer had the very special privilege to speak via email with one Scott Kelly, an extreme metal icon and musical legend in his own right...

Power trio Zoroaster, who are currently recording their new album 'Matador,' earned the title of Atlanta's loudest band for quite an obvious reason: they play really f---ing loud! "The 'loudest band in Atlanta' thing is something we got tagged with from the early days, when all we cared about was drowning out the hecklers and it was 'full on 11' all of the time," vocalist/guitarist Will

Since Barn Burner are a Canadian stoner/doom metal group that sound like a '90s disc unearthed in a musty wooden crate at a Man's Ruin estate sale, we figured their guitarist Nick Ball's iPod would be filled with songs by Kyuss, Corrosion of Conformity, Cathedral, Sleep and pretty much any other band you'd listen to while smoking weed through a Coca-Cola can...