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At a Skeletonwitch show -- it now being the band's seventh year bringing their blackened thrash attack across America and beyond -- don't be surprised to see guitarist Scott Hedrick hanging out in front of the club with fans and friends alike before thrashing whatever audience that is in whatever city it is on whatever night tonight shortly thereafter...

"New York Citaaaaaaaaaaaay! How's your vibe?" Doomriders frontman Nate Newton asked the crowd at New York's Mercury Lounge on April 14. The guitarist also has a big role in the prominent, Boston-bred hardcore band Converge. "Well, give it up because your vibe is much better than last night's vibe...

Want to hear a bunch of hardcore for free today? And not just some blown-out demos by some guys with jerseys and a four track. Deathwish Records along with Malfunction and Six Feet Under Records have compiled a massive 36-track free digital compilation...

Long before he was a member of instrumental post-hardcore outfit Red Sparowes, who have an album called 'The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer' due in stores April 6, bassist Greg Burns lived in New Haven, Conn., and played in this little hardcore band called Jasta 14...

Jason Buhrmester, ex-editor of Inked, classier-than-most tattoo rag, reached into the annals of rock 'n' roll history to pen 'Black Dogs,' a fictional novel featuring a quartet of slackers who attempt to rob Led Zeppelin in 1973. The book, which is a souped up, fictional account of a true event, is currently being turned into a screenplay that the author himself will write...

Ex-members of Scar Culture -- remember them, as they were briefly signed to Century Media in the early '00s? -- and Dirty Rig have formed Moth Eater, a New York-based, sludge-caked doom band. "We think our music is like Motörhead driving to a Black Sabbath concert with Scissorfight sitting in the back seat, High on Fire riding shotgun and the Doomriders driving the car behind us with a full

When Doomriders released their sophomore album back in September, many fans stood shocked and perplexed as the band seemingly had stepped away from their late-'70s, punk-mixed metal that kept everything tongue-in-cheek fun by screaming about skateboarding and the like...

"We almost didn't make our flight. I'm sick. You're sick. Now we're caught up," Doomriders frontman and guitarist Nate Newton said, getting the band reacquainted with Atlanta, a place the band hadn't played in almost four years. The Feb. 10 show at The Masquerade marked only a handful of shows the Boston band has been able to play since the release of their sophomore long player, 'Darkn

Back on the road in February and Skeletonwitch's 12 upcoming tour dates were just reported, taking place around the eastern half of the U.S. Shortly after releasing their third studio album, 'Breathing the Fire,' in September, the band shot a bad-ass video for 'Repulsive Salvation,' which left its fans salivating for more...

Providence, R.I. metallers Howl recently finished work on their full-length debut for Relapse Records, and the follow-up to their self-titled EP. "The new album is, if anything, more extreme than the EP, moving from aggression to slow doom, through both black metal atmospheres and blues-based harmonies," guitarist Vincent Hausman told Noisecreep...