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In this age, where speed often trumps talent and melody, metal musicians are feeling pressure to noodle faster. And even for a virtuoso like Nile guitarist and frontman Karl Sanders, the burden to go balls-to-the-wall was there during the writing and recording of the Egyptian-themed technical death metallers seventh LP, 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' which hits stores Nov...

Reigning kings of Egyptian-themed technical death metal Nile have debuted the new track 'Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld' on their MySpace page earlier this week. The song comes from their upcoming release, 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' scheduled for a Nov...

Three gorgeous days in a row! Finally, summer has found its way to New York City, and it's about time. So far, it's been a busy week for us here at Noisecreep. We just got back from the California launch of the RockStar Mayhem festival, where we interviewed a bunch of bands, and we're all excited for Friday's visit from Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy...

We weren't sure if we would, but lo and behold, we have indeed survived our first weekend in this post-Michael Jackson world. Jackson's passing got us thinking whether there was a heavy metal equivalent...meaning, is there one person in heavy metal whose death would elicit even a slightly similar outpouring of mourning and a sense of international loss...

Open any hard rock publication these days and you'd be hard-pressed to not see some kind of coverage on a death metal band. The once vilified genre is everywhere these days. Not only are Job For A Cowboy t-shirts flying off the shelves at your local Hot Topic, a recent episode of Fox TV's 'Bones' based an entire storyline around a fictional Norwegian death metal band...