velvet revolver

These days, bands will do just about anything to promote their new albums. Viral campaigns, intricate online treasure hunts, fake websites, fabricated stories ... the list goes on and on. That's why, when we woke up this morning, a story about Five Finger Death Punch gave us pause...

Motörhead's current U.S. tour took a surprising turn when the band announced that Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum is joining the metal legends for part of the jaunt. It's nothing permanent, mind you. Sorum is filling in while Motörhead's current sticksman, Mikkey Dee, takes off to Europe to appear on the Swedish version of TV reality show 'I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me... Read Mo

Today, the Noisecreep staff will be taping episode numero tres of our newly-launched, weekly ''Creep Show' podcast, and man, is it shaping up to be must-see TV. We're having special guest Trevor Strnad swing by to sit in. Yeah, the dude from Black Dahlia Murder...

Check your sources. It's one of those rules you abide by when you're a journalist, charged with dispensing information for mass consumption. Anyone can regurgitate false information, but taking that extra step to ensure such information is accurate ...

What a weekend! We started things off right on Friday, paying $7 for Snapples, hanging out with Bam Margera, hitting on teenage girls and rocking out along the waterfront in Camden, N.J. to the glorious sounds of God Forbid, the Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth and more...

After graduating from Boston University at the age of 19, Rick Florino was living the life he dreamed in California. He created the successful music magazine Ruin for which he interviewed the likes of Tool, Deftones, Korn, White Zombie and Down...

Have you ever been stuck in a relationship that made you miserable? You want to end things, hoping you'll find some joy in life. But for some reason, you stick it out, and suffer. Well, imagine what it must be like to be in a band you can't stand anymore...

Poor Farrah Fawcett. The world was just starting to mourn her death when someone even more iconic kicked the bucket. Unless you live under a rock, you know by now that Michael Jackson died yesterday at the age of 50, from sudden cardiac arrest (we're hoping he left us the Elephant man's bones in his will)...

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...

Recently our friends over at AOL Radio made their picks for the 10 best power ballads of all time. We're opinionated little pills here at Noisecreep, so we decided to make our own list, thank-you-very-much. You'll noticed we didn't totally disagree with our radio friends (and their listeners) – yes, some picks made both lists! – bu...