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Scion and Metal Insider have teamed up for the No Label Needed Contest and Series, which will help one incredibly lucky band earn its way to prominence in the music industry in a unique way: without the assistance of a record label. While many bands make a go of it on their own, the Toyota-owned car manufacturer and the metal industry blog behind No Label Needed are thinking outside of the box and

Fu Manchu guitarist Bob Balch has launched the educational and entertaining website, PlayThisRiff.com, which offers music lessons to fans by the very artists who perform the songs! "I started PlayThisRiff.com because I wanted to see a website that featured HD videos of actual touring musicians showing others how to play," Balch told Noisecreep...

The last few years, Kevin Lyman's Warped Tour has become more metal than your mother's kettle, so to speak. Rather than serve strictly as a platform for punk, ska and emo, Warped has become an all-inclusive affair, featuring bands like Underoath, the Devil Wears Prada, In This Moment and Killswitch Engage...

An article published by Rock Sound that's since been removed from the site claims Every Time I Die's Keith Buckley, Anthrax's Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano, and Fall Out Boy's Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman have joined forces in a metal side project they're calling the Damned Things...

This is the time of year where music magazines and websites go list crazy and Noisecreep is no different. If you're a regular reader here, you already know how much we love creating top 10 lists about the metal world. With the decade coming to a close, we decided to take a look back at all of the fine music that came out throughout the years...

Over the span of four albums, as well as various EPs and splits, Pelican have established themselves as the forerunner of instrumental metal bands, but longtime fans will be surprised to hear vocals -- gasp! -- on their latest record, 'What We All Come to Need...

March 23 is going to be an awesome day. That's the day the Dillinger Escape Plan will release their fourth album, 'Option Paralysis.' The disc will be issued through the band's new Season of Mist imprint, Party Smasher Inc. The album was recorded in California with producer Steve Evetts (Every Time I Die, Glassjaw), and will be, perhaps, one of the most talked about releases of 2010...

Stand-up comedy is one of the toughest gigs in the entertainment business. It's just you and a microphone, and a lot of awkward pauses, embarrassing moments and unsympathetic hecklers if your material bombs out. None of this deters Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams, who invites those situations and scenarios, as he tentatively plans a stand-up comedy tour...

Even if movie sequels get progressively lamer the higher up the numbers go, the accompanying soundtracks sometimes get better and better. We're not sure how good the movie 'Saw VI' is, but the soundtrack is pretty rad, featuring new recordings by Suicide Silence, Lacuna Coil, Mushroomhead, Chimaira, Shadows Fall, Outbreak and Nitzer Ebb, as well as previously released music ranging from hard rock

Every Time I Die's 'New Junk Aesthetic' is like a nuclear warhead aimed at synthetic bands, like Attack Attack! "That genre is so easy to pick on," guitarist Andy Williams told Noisecreep. "It's another manufactured thing. Those kids sat there and instead of making original music, they heard what was popular and thought, 'That's what we'll sound like...