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Mike Portnoy has more than just a hand in the Progressive Nation tour, currently in its second year. While his band, Dream Theater, has headlined both years of the tour's incarnation, the drummer, an avid music fan, also curated both years' lineups...

A couple of weeks back, 'True Blood' fan and Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy stopped by the Noisecreep offices – not long after the launch of the band's Progressive Nation tour with Zappa Plays Zappa, Scale the Summit and Bigelf – to talk to us about a number of things. Like what?...

Today, musicians from all genres are remembering Michael Jackson and his music. Progressive rockers Bigelf took a break from the road to exclusively talk to Noisecreep about Jackson and the biggest selling album of all time, 'Thriller.' "Today, darkness falls across the land...

Fill in the blank: Opinions are like ___, everyone has one and most of them stink. Actually, the answer we were looking for was "ideas that are believed to be true." Get your mind out of the gutter. At any rate, sometimes bands want to talk about something other than themselves, so Noisecreep posed some random questions to some of metal's elite to get their opinion on some (non) pressing

"When you combine strings and rock n' roll, it's always a touchy subject for certain folk. You know, you look at Black Sabbath - they didn't have strings on their albums. They had minimal keyboards in general. The sounds in Bigelf are much more diverse," Bigelf front man and creator Damon Fox admits to Noisecreep...

"If people ever wonder or think, 'Man, music sucks now!' Well, that's all part of the catastrophe of it, the ripple effect from one thing to another. I think technology in some ways has ruined music in general." Strong words from Bigelf front man Damon Fox regarding the current state of the music business...

IT'S NO SMALL WORLD: Atlanta, GA's Daath will not be joining Cynic and Dragonforce for the April 15 show at the House Of Blues in Anaheim, California but will rejoin the tour April 17 in Boise, Idaho. In the past the venue, which is owned by the Walt Disney Corporation, has banned other acts including Snot and Machine Head...

"If people listen to the last two Bigelf records, and 'Money, It's Pure Evil' gets to where it's mass consumed, I don't have a problem with that at all," Bigelf singer Damon Fox told Noisecreep. Progressive wizards Bigelf are not new to the scene ...