Karen Bliss
Six Feet Under’s Chris Barnes: ‘I Know for a Fact That There Is an Afterlife’
Six Feet Under is approaching 20 years as a premiere death metal band, but in this stage of their career, founder and frontman Chris Barnes is entering a kind of stage two. On Undead, their ninth full-length album - produced by Mark Lewis (Deicide, Devildriver) - due May 22, there is a band new lineup: guitarist Rob Arnold and drummer Kevin Talley who joined in 2011 and bassist Jeff Hughell, who c
Slash Makes ‘Apocalyptic Love’ at Canadian Music Week
Slash recently sat down with noted Toronto radio host Dave "Bookie" Bookman of 102.1 The Edge at Canadian Music Week 2012 to chat primarily about his new album, Apocalyptic Love, out May 22, with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. His last album in 2010 featured Alter Bridge's Kennedy on two songs, in addition to countless other singers such as Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Corn
Heavy T.O. Lineups Announced: Slipknot, System of a Down to Headline
Get your passport in order and prepare for a road trip to Canada for one of two Heavy festivals in Toronto and Montreal, both held the same weekend, Aug. 11 and 12.
The two-day Heavy T.O. will take place at Downsview Park and feature Slipknot as headliner on the first day and System of a Down on the second...
Devin Townsend Discusses Upcoming ‘Ridiculous’ Box Set, Ziltoid Musical
Did you hear the one about the cheeseburger? The Devin Townsend Project had a big Styrofoam one as part of a concert series last summer in London, England, and soon you'll get to see it on DVD, entitled 'By a Thread,' due out this summer...
Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia: ‘You Have to Embrace the Darkest Moments’
Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia is in Florida, enjoying a little warm weather before kicking off a winter tour that ends in February and includes quite a few dates in the cold northwest.
The band - Scabbia, co-vocalist Andrea Ferro, bassist Marco Coti Zelati, guitarist Cristiano Migliore, guitarist Marco Biazziand drummer Cristino Mozzati - will be on Megadeth's Gigantour package tour in suppo
The Used’s Bert McCracken Talks New Album, Becoming a Business Man
The Used just unleashed 'I Come Alive,' the first single from their forthcoming album, 'Vulnerable.' But Noisecreep hadn't heard any music when frontman Bert McCracken did this interview just days before Christmas. A press release had just gone out announcing the formation of the Utah band's new record label, Anger Music Group, and new distribution deal with Hopeless Records...
Periphery’s Matt Halpern Gives Us the Lowdown on His New Online Venture
Periphery drummer Matt Halpern has conceived and created Bandhappy.com, a comprehensive online music education site that connects teachers with students via its custom-built, in-house video chat system in addition to offering in-person lessons...
Lacuna Coil Premiere ‘Kill the Light': New Single From ‘Dark Adrenaline’ Unleashed
Lacuna Coil's new album, 'Dark Adrenaline,' isn't due until Jan. 24 with a tour kicking off in North America two days later as one of the acts on Megadeth's Gigantour, but the Italian metal band, fronted by Cristina Scabbia, is giving fans a taste of a couple of songs well in advance...
Anvil Announce US Tour Dates
Lips & Co. are giving you a big one on Happy Valentine's Day. Anvil - whose lead vocalist Steve Kudlow is nicknamed Lips - will be releasing three of their older albums on Feb. 14, 1987's 'Strength of Steel,' 1988's 'Pound for Pound' and 1992's 'Worth the Weight,' all remastered in a digipak format. Th
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Enter Shikari Bassist Calls Thailand Album Recording Sessions ‘Amazing’
Enter Shikari's new album, 'A Flash Flood of Colour,' is slated for a Jan. 17 release via a new label, Hopeless Records. The inventive electro-spiked post-hardcore band accomplished quite a bit on their first two albums, 2007's 'Take to the Skies' and 2009's 'Common Dreads,' playing most of the A-level festivals from Australia's Big Day Out, UK's Leeds, Reading, Download and Glastonbury, Germany'