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"The songs would suck if we didn't work as a team," Haarp's Shaun Emmons told Noisecreep, looking back on the time it took to write each song on the band's full-length debut. Some songs on 'The Filth' needed time to grow and transform as the band did; certain tracks go as far back to the first practices...

Right from the first shows, Haarp have grabbed everyone's attention as the newest merchants of sludge to come from the hot bed of the slow and low that is New Orleans. After the band's second self-released EP, former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo not only signed them up for his label Housecore Records, he took them under his heavily marked wings...

"There's nothing at all like seeing us live," Haarp frontman Shaun Emmons told Noisecreep." If I could invite the world to come see us play, I certainly would. It would be worth everyone's while, I think." Anyone who's been lucky enough to catch the sludge outfit from the murky deeps of Louisiana can't argue with that...

Pantera/Down/Arson Anthem/Superjoint Ritrual icon Philip Anselmo has effectively relaunched his Housecore label, which was distributed through Relapse a few years back. The label collects Anselmo's projects over the years, as well as bands he believes in...

Phil Anselmo is a lot of things. Singer. Lyricist. Legend. Sufferer of back pain. Quotable as hell. Lo-Fi. He's also one of the most honest metal icons there is. When Noisecreep had the chance to interview with Anselmo for 30 minutes, he answered every question -- in his trademark Southern drawl -- without hesitation...