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Coheed and Cambria Announce Special 10th Anniversary Tour Dates
Has it really been 10 years since the interstellar debut of Coheed and Cambria? It seems like just yesterday we were being treated to the prog stylings of Claudio Sanchez and company. To celebrate their decade of chart-topping success, Coheed and Cambria will be hitting the road to play their debut album, 'The Second Stage Turbine Blade,' straight through...
Haarp Go Above and Beyond to Write Lyrics for Their Songs
"The songs would suck if we didn't work as a team," Haarp's Shaun Emmons told Noisecreep, looking back on the time it took to write each song on the band's full-length debut. Some songs on 'The Filth' needed time to grow and transform as the band did; certain tracks go as far back to the first practices...
Leviathan’s Jef Whitehead Charged With Sexual Assault
To most, Jef Whitehead is not a widely familiar name. In the black metal and tattooing community, however, Whitehead is well respected for his art and his solo work as Wrest in Leviathan, as well as his role in the black metal supergroup Twilight (which boasts involvement from members of Isis and Nachtmystium)...
Deftones Tap Dillinger Escape Plan for ‘Diamond Eyes’ Tour Dates
Each tour the Deftones have embarked on since the release of 'Diamond Eyes' has been its own event, from the BlackDiamondSkye tour -- with fellow heavyweights Alice and Chains and Mastodon -- to the dates with Baroness in tow. And now the spring run in support of 'Diamond Eyes' will see New Jersey chaos dealers Dillinger Escape Plan grabbing the opening slot for what will be a must-see show...
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Man Blames Ozzy Osbourne for Drunk Driving Arrest
The Prince of Darkness has been blamed for many things over the years. Things like endorsing suicide and Satan marked Ozzy Osbourne in the headlines during the '80s, as religious right wingers pointed fingers. But according to Aurora, Ohio's William Liston, his charge of driving under the influence on Christmas Eve in the Cleveland suburb of Solon is Osbourne's fault...
Corey Taylor: Paul Gray Will ‘Never Be Replaced’ in Slipknot
With Slipknot's triumphant return to stage announced -- June 24 at Sonisphere Festival in Switzerland -- the question now is how the masked outfit will fill the space left by the untimely passing of bassist Paul Gray. "It's one of the things that we're talking about right now," frontman Corey Taylor revealed to Artisan News Service...
Lazarus A.D. Drew From Tragedies for ‘Black Rivers Flow’ — Song Premiere
It didn't take long for Wisconsin's sons of thrash Lazarus A.D. to make their mark. Their self-released debut, 'The Onslaught,' turned heads quickly -- that's once in 2007 and again in 2009 when Metal Blade repackaged it. After a three-and-a-half-year absence from the studio, they have returned, embracing more groove without losing sight of the rapid-fire assault that put them on the map...
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Haarp Covered Pantera With Phil Anselmo — Video
Right from the first shows, Haarp have grabbed everyone's attention as the newest merchants of sludge to come from the hot bed of the slow and low that is New Orleans. After the band's second self-released EP, former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo not only signed them up for his label Housecore Records, he took them under his heavily marked wings...
Haarp: The ‘Residue’ of Katrina Can Be Found in ‘The Filth’
"There's nothing at all like seeing us live," Haarp frontman Shaun Emmons told Noisecreep." If I could invite the world to come see us play, I certainly would. It would be worth everyone's while, I think."
Anyone who's been lucky enough to catch the sludge outfit from the murky deeps of Louisiana can't argue with that...
Word Alive Bassist Nick Urlacher Leaves the Band
Phoenix, Ariz.'s the Word Alive have announced that bassist and founding member Nick Urlacher is leaving the metalcore act on amicable terms. "I've decided to leave the Word Alive my friends," Urlacher said in a joint statement from him and the band...