BrutalTruth

Brutal Truth are not only one of the longest-standing grindcore groups around today, they are also one of the most respected. Formed by ex-Anthrax, Nuclear Assault and S.O.D. bassist Dan Lilker in 1990, the quartet has released five studio albums of thought-provoking lyrics, ferocious riffing and some of the most abrasive vocals you'll hear anywhere in the extreme music community...

New Orleans' Eyehategod make metal that's sludgier than a NOLA swamp, and the band will finally tour the U.S. after a significant absent from the road circuit other than weekend warrior gigging. "It's first U.S. tour in a long time, and while we've been doing shows all over, it's been regional in the South," singer Mike Williams told Noisecreep...

Maniacal Brutal Truth drummer Richard Hoak will release a digital-only album recorded between 1996 and 1999. 'The Caveman/R. Hoak' split features 38 minutes of tribal beats mixed with free-form jazz-metal freak outs that will like appeal to fans of Crash Worship and Naked City...

Earlier this year, Chicago-hailing extreme metallers Nachtmystium entered a recording studio to begin tracking the follow-up to 2008's 'Assassins: Black Meddle Part I' under the vigilant eyes of Minsk producer Sanford Parker. On June 8, Century Media will release that effort, called 'Addicts: Black Meddle Part II...

For years now, the good folks at MetalSucks and SMN News have helped bring some of the most sinister tours around to your town, and this June, they'll be doing it again. New Orleans sludge metallers Eyehategod will be taking to the blacktop starting June 3 in Orlando, Fla...

"I don't know what you people did with all that free beer, but I got f---ing drunk, man!" Those were the first words Rich Hoak said on April 1 when Total F---ing Destruction played Fontanas in New York City. The event was put together by Tones of Death and Revolver Magazine, who gather metalheads once a month with free beer and no entry fee...

Filmmaker David Hall, who lensed a doc on Maryland Deathfest 7 and makes films based on full metal albums, has an interesting -- and initially terrifying -- history with metal! "When I was a kid, my best friend's dad scared me off metal with stories of Kiss eating feces off the floor and Ozzy Osbourne drinking buckets of communal spit and puppy blood," Hall told Noisecreep...

David Hall, director of the Maryland Deathfest 7 feature-length documentary, has coined a new cinematic phrase and created a new genre: 'grind verite.' "At first, I didn't know what kind of film I wanted to make about MDF," Hall told Noisecreep...

Crucifist may not be from Norway or Russia, but they do come from an exceptionally frosty place in the Northern Hemisphere -- Rochester, N.Y. When the old school black metallers played The Knitting Factory on Jan. 10 with Krallice, Ancient Wound and Humanity Falls they made sure their set was filled with dark, fast headbang-worthy tunes...

As an exercise in extreme precision, Brutal Truth have released 'Evolution in One Take: For Grindfreaks Only! Volume 2' earlier this week. The semi-follow-up to their last straight shot, 'For Drug Crazed Grindfreaks Only! Live at Nocturn Studios,' which came out in 2000, this installment was recorded at Mark It Zero studios with sound engineer Dan O'Hare...