Circle of Contempt

Finnish metal mavens Circle of Contempt will hit U.S. shores as part of the Over the Limit Tour with As Blood Runs Black, Oceano, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, Thick as Blood, Burning the Masses and Blind Witness, with This or the Apocalypse and Son of Aurelius on select dates...

Dolls heads. TV screen heads. A band playing in a warehouse-like space, rocking out like maniacs. Stark, black, grey hues and tones. Chunky, choppy, industrial-tinged metal. That's the long and the short of Circle of Contempt's 'Concealed' video, which Noisecreep is proud to exclusively premiere here today...

It's very possible Finland's Circle of Contempt have, until now, passed under your radar because, well, they're from Finland. However, if everything goes according to plan, that will soon change. The band has an album on the way from Sumerian Records and just finished their first ever tour with Winds of Plague, Stick to Your Guns, Sleeping Giant and Oceano...

Killer Lyric: You taught us how to hate / Now take our hearts apart / Pay in blood / Now play in blood Circle of Contempt -- one of the latest offerings from the growing Sumerian Records roster -- hit the metal scene hard with technical and progressive metalcore on their debut, 'Artifacts In Motion...

That didn't last long! On Oct. 15, Winds of Plague revealed they had a new keyboardist in Lisa Marx, formerly of Kittie, Day of Contempt and Scars of Tomorrow. Marx would be taking over for Kristen Randall, the band's longtime keyboardist who split from the symphonic death metal act to pursue modeling and acting...

Sleeping Giant lead singer Tommy Green admits he felt "cheesy" mimicking lyrics during filming the video for 'The Army of the Chosen One,' a song that appears on the Christian hardcore band's album 'Sons of Thunder.' But he pulled it off for the sake of his fans...

Revolver magazine named her one of the sexiest women in metal back in 2006, the same year she was picked as one of Peta2's Top 20 Sexiest Vegetarians. And now, Lisa Marx, the comely former keyboardist for Kittie and Day of Contempt, is the newest member of Winds of Plague...

Talk about your slow news mornings...today takes the cake. After what's been a rather hectic week, which started out with Five Finger Death Punch misplaced their guitarist and was seemingly capped last night with Chiodos booting their frontman, things are slowing down a bit this morning...