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2009 was a fantastic year for heavy music. Not only was Noisecreep launched (just joking), some of our favorite bands came back from hibernation, showing us that playing metal and hardcore isn't just a young person's sport. With the end of the year upon us, every magazine and Web site is unleashing its 'top 10 of 2009' list, and Noisecreep is no different...

"I have always said that I like everything from Marduk to Mozart, and this pretty much proves it," Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover tells Noisecreep in reference to his 'Your iPod Is Showing' submission. He's not kidding. Drover's iPod list starts with Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons,' ends with Pat Travers' 'Gettin' Betta' and features a broad variety of classic rock, classic metal, neo-classi

"Any old school motherf---ers in here?" Dying Fetus vocalist and guitarist John Gallagher shouted to a packed Starland Ballroom. Half of the room jagged their horns in the air. Yet it's a pretty safe bet half of that room was not even born when Gallagher and former bassist Jason Netherton formed Dying Fetus and wrote the band's first demos in the early '90s...

Devildriver - 'Pray For Villains' - Roadrunner Following the tradition of all things Roadrunner, one of their longtime metal stars takes their newest release to the streets. Melodic groove metal quintet Devildriver unleash their fourth studio release on the label and much like their ballyhooed, 2007 appearance at Download festival, it's sure to send fans headfirst into the pit... Read

Hardly anything lasts past 20 years nowadays. That's why it's so impressive that New York death metal icons Suffocation, the architects of essential, seminal albums like 'Pierced from Within' and 'Effigy of the Forgotten,' are still making quality death metal two decades deep into their career...

When you've only got enough time to play a five or six song set, you've got to try and mix things up a bit for your fans. American death metallers Dying Fetus have been doing just that on this year's 'Summer Slaughter tour,' which runs through July 20 in New York with Necrophagist, Suffocation, Origin and more...

They say the news is always happening, but this weekend, the metal news took something of a respite. Seriously. It was a rather slow two days, probably because everyone was outside and far from their computers. Here in New York City, at least, we had two solid straight days of sunshine...

Not that this has anything to do with metal or hardcore, but we here at Noisecreep have been watching the events at E3 unfold out west with great anticipation. See, we have a game room here at our disposal (yeah, it pretty much rules), and lately, we've been rocking the revamped 'Punch-Out' for the Wii, which happens to be our favorite system...

Man, what a gorgeous weekend we had here in New York, despite what every single meteorologist told us heading into the holiday. What an awesome job that must be, huh? You can be wrong all the time, and still, no one fires you. Must be nice. Anyways, we've been away for three days now, which means we've got three days of metal news to catch you up on...

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...