Recently, my wife directed MELLODRAMA: The Mellotron Story, a documentary about a California inventor who unveiled an organ in 1956 that could replay the sounds of other instruments using magnetic tape. His idea was lifted by an employee and sold abroad, and soon the Mellotron caught fire and became a rock music staple, championed by everyone from the Beatles (on "Strawberry Fields Forever&qu
Last year, when Noisecreep was a neophyte site, we interviewed filmmakers Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, who filmed an unflinching and compelling look at the black metal scene -- the documentary 'Until the Light Takes Us' -- which included pre-release interviews with formerly jailed, polarizing black metal maven Varg Vikernes...
Mutilation Rites' Michael Dimmitt knows a thing or two about black metal. He may not have written the book -- 'Lords of Chaos' more or less cornered that market -- but he helped make the movie and metes out some of the most punishing riffs this side of the Brooklyn Bridge in doomy black metal assassins Mutilation Rites...
Guitar, bass and drums are the conventional instrumentation for nearly all heavy metal. Some bands have also used organs or synthesizers, and throughout the history of the genre, a select few have utilized the Mellotron, a magnetic-tape keyboard originally invented as the Chamberlin organ in a California garage in the late 1940s...
Directors Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke knew they wanted to make a documentary involving enigmatic Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan, and his vineyards and winemaking endeavors, after they encountered the singer via 'The Heart is a Drum Machine,' the documentary they made that featured interviews with Keenan and other hard rock/metal luminaries like Enslaved's Ivar
For this year's Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland, Norwegian progressive black metal minions Enslaved have been announced as the "artist in residence." Set to take place April 15-18, Enslaved will be doing several special performances and collaborations throughout the four-day affair...