Gwynbleidd

"Are you ready for some Celtic metal?!" Suidakra frontman Arkadius Antonik asked the crowd at BB Kings on March 8. Of course they were ready! The German death metal band played after the more mellow Gwynbleidd and before Orphaned Land. "On the last tour I asked every night for your support...

On Feb. 20, East of the Wall played their record release show with split-mates Rosetta. But this Noisecreep writer was not at that show. Instead, this Noisecreep writer was at a show where East of the Wall only played a 30-minute set. Everyone wanted more at New York City's Lit Lounge on Feb...

When Gwynbleidd played at Union Pool, they left the wintry night chill outside. There were just too many drunk and still-full-from-Thanksgiving headbangers excited to see the progressive and folky death metallers for the place to be cold. But once the intro sample trickled in the small Union Pool, the room felt more like a cabin in the middle of nowhere than a block away from the Lorimer stop on t

On Oct. 27, Gwynbleidd, a band that formed back in 2002, will issue its debut LP, 'Nostalgia,' an impressive, punishing collection of progressive black metal that's imbued with slight black and folk metal elements. The album is a real monster, and Noisecreep is proud to be able to bring you an exclusive first listen of the forthcoming disc...

Maciej Kupiszewski, who immigrated to the U.S. when he was 13, still has fond memories of his former home in Poland -- a hotbed for death and black metal. Like the rest of his bandmates in Gwynbleidd, the guitarist didn't have much of a choice about moving to Brooklyn with his parents, and the cultural and geographical shift has certainly affected the person he is today...

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...

Ozzy Osbourne performed at BlizzCon over the weekend, and now we're even more confused. For weeks now, there has been some question over whether Zakk Wylde was still Osbourne's guitarist. The answer was supposed to come over the weekend, when Osbourne was to perform at the Anaheim Convention Center ...