funeral pyre

The Funeral Pyre endured a pretty massive tragedy earlier this month. They were on the road with tourmates Early Graves when a van accident took the life of Graves' vocalist Makh Daniels. Both bands were traveling in the vehicle, and all members sustained minor injuries because of the accident...

Holy Grail, the Los Angeles metal scene's latest screamers for vengeance, are repressing their debut seven-inch, 'Improper Burial,' on white vinyl. The repressing is extremely limited to only 500 copies, which are bound to go faster than illegal substances in prison...

There were boisterous times at the band's recent appearance at South by Southwest (the band's first for the festival, but hardly their Austin, Texas debut), but much like a typical crosshatching of 20-somethings, the Funeral Pyre's craziest experience on the road was in none other than Las Vegas, the country's capital for capriciousness...

Los Angeles' black metal fiends the Funeral Pyre have released a new song, 'Personal Exile,' from their forthcoming effort, 'Vultures at Dawn.' The album is out through Prosthetic on June 8. Our good friends at MetalSucks premiered the song, which we have to agree, puts the 'fun' in Funeral...

Melodic black metal band the Funeral Pyre will follow up 2008's acerbic 'Wounds' with the more musically diverse 'Vultures at Dawn,' which is scheduled for release on June 8. "On this record, we stepped out of our comfort zone and tried to create better songs, never focusing on what style of metal it actually is...

The Funeral Pyre has always done it their own way, and recording for the band's forthcoming full-length isn't that much different. Yeah, they have a record label, and sure, they just did a six-week tour -- that they booked themselves -- across the U...

Germany's Anima make their Metal Blade debut with 'Enter the Killzone,' 12 tracks of death metal-inspired metalcore. Anima bassist Justin Schüler created the artwork, under his graphic design name, Black Night Studios (or 'Marek Schwarznacht' for those Noisecreep readers not up on their Deutsche sprache). Th...

Some bands, you wish would just go away. But others seem to dissolve long before their time. San Francisco's Light This City was one of the latter. It's been nearly two years since they threw in the towel, right before the release of their final opus, 'Stormchaser,' but Light This City aren't going away on a quiet note...

A mutual love of heavy metal and hardy meals fuels Chef Ryan Harkins, Matt Chernus, and Dustin Dillard, the three metalheads that make up the crew of Los Angeles' Grill 'Em All burger truck. And if you happened to be in front of the Prosthetic Records Los Angeles offices at Venice Blvd...

At the Blvd Cafe, its walls adorned with pictures of performances past, Los Angeles' the Funeral Pyre played their last show ... of 2009, amidst a swirl of beer and black metal. Along with Oakland's Embers, in town while on a brief Southwest-ish tour, the mistitled bar-turned-café-but-still-a-bar saw a good two hours of black metal and beer prior to the Funeral Pyre retreating into writing/recordi