dark funeral

The super Swedes of Laethora -- which features Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin and the Provenance members Joakim Rosén (guitar), Jonnie Tell (bass) and Joel Lindell (drums), along with vocalist Jonatan Nordenstam -- will release their second album, 'The Light in Which We All Burn,' on May 11 from The End Records. The ...

The greatest force that delayed the release of Gorgoroth's seventh studio album, 'Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt' was Gorgoroth itself. On Oct. 21, 2007, guitarist Roger Tiegs (a.k.a. Infernus) announced he could no longer continue working with vocalist Gaahl (who joined the band in 1998) and bassist King Ov Hell (who had been with the group since 1999)...

Dark Funeral's newest offering on the black metal market, 'Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus,' will be released Nov. 18 on Regain Records, and something may strike you different about the album cover. "First of all, it is a digital painting," designer Daniel 'Morbid' Valeriani told Noisecreep...

Frankly, we're tired of the media connecting horrific crimes to heavy metal. Whether it's Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Guns N' Roses or Metallica, bands have often been held accountable for the actions of their fans. Manson, they said, influenced the Columbine killers...

END OF AN ERA: Norwegian black metal icon Gaahl has announced his decision to retire from metal music, leaving his new bandmates in God Seed in the lurch and bringing a very definite end to the Gorgoroth vs. Gorgoroth name dispute's legal proceedings of the past year...

Remember those rumors a few years ago, that Ozzy Osbourne was looking to ditch longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde, and that Ozzy was even holding auditions for new guitarists? This all happened back in late 2005, before the recording of Ozzy's 2007 album 'Black Rain... Read More ...

We here at Noisecreep love heavy metal beef. Whether its Ozzy versus Tony, Slayer versus Metallica, Sharon versus Maiden, Manson versus Borland, or Trent versus everybody, smack-talking is always amusing, but alas, almost never leads to fisticuffs...