Kim Kelly
Sanguis Imperem Have No Problem With Myspace
Primitive death metal bruisers Sanguis Imperem don't immediately strike you as the most tech-savvy group of dudes. With their leather, spikes, long hair and ubiquitous sunglasses, they'd look more at home in a medieval torture chamber than in front of a computer screen, but, according to guitarist R...
Sanguis Imperem: Death Metal Means ‘F— You’
As a band, Sanguis Imperem are the definition of uncompromising. Formed nearly five years ago in the soulless wasteland of Southern California and as uncommercial as they come (the thought of hearing a track like 'Humanity's Dirge' on even Headbanger's Ball elicits a chuckle), the death metal tyrants have busied themselves spreading the disease far and wide...
Nux Vomica Refuse to Let Fans’ Expectations Dictate Their Actions
Portland-based melodic death/crust punk genre-manglers Nux Vomica have gotten a lot of grief for their newer material. In the basement-bred, anti-everything crust punk community, changing up your sound or allowing melody to creep into your compositions raises a red flag...
Sanguis Imperem Want to Trample You With Caesar’s Legions
For Southern California death metal mercenaries Sanguis Imperem, it's not always about being brutal. Well, a lot of the time it is, as evidenced by their positively bestial, knuckle-dragging, crypt-robbing take on old-school death metal -- but there's more to this leather-clad quintet than meets the ear...
Nux Vomica Have Been Called ‘the Yes of Crust’
Portland-via-Baltimore crust collective Nux Vomica are a strange beast. Their sound draws from a variety of genres -- elements of crust punk, melodic death metal, black metal, doom and post-rock can are swirled together carefully, artfully and, at times, with reckless abandon...
Yob Stranded in Europe, Playing Shows to Bide Their Time
American doom legends Yob are currently stranded in the Netherlands and are making the best of a terrible situation by playing a handful of very special shows around Western Europe. The volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland this past Wednesday has thrown Europe into chaos, as a plume of volcanic ash caused airspace over much of Northern Europe and the U...
Mutilation Rites’ Michael Dimmitt Saw Norwegian Black Metal First-Hand
Mutilation Rites' Michael Dimmitt knows a thing or two about black metal. He may not have written the book -- 'Lords of Chaos' more or less cornered that market -- but he helped make the movie and metes out some of the most punishing riffs this side of the Brooklyn Bridge in doomy black metal assassins Mutilation Rites...
Wormrot Say Singapore’s Metal Scene Is ‘Unpredictable’
Recent Earache signees Wormrot have a lot to live up to. Hailed as both a much-needed return to the label's grinding roots and the heirs to now-defunct but always pissed Texan grind horde Insect Warfare's filth-encrusted throne, the grindfreaks behind 'Abuse' have more than proven themselves, releasing scores of demos and LPs on local DY labels and spreading their disease as far past the Singapor
Mutilation Rites’ Michael Dimmitt Worked on ‘Until the Light Takes Us’
Mutilation Rites not only boast some of the coldest, most evil riffs that New York City has to offer -- they're also fortunate to count one Michael Dimmitt amongst their ranks. Besides slinging the axe in Mutilation Rites and Rabia, and having been a part of Disassociate, he also works in film...
Shrinebuilder’s Scott Kelly Reflects on 2009
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...