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The latest album from Boston's Junius, 'The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist,' is a colossal affair. Musically speaking, the layered tones and textures create a vast soundscape that is as much Isis as it is the Cure. Artistically, both the vinyl and CD versions are packaged in what could literally pass as a coffee table book...

A few months back, Scion launched a new Web site jamming all areas of art and entertainment into one place, calling it ScionAV. To coincide with the site the car company contacted labels to shoot exclusive videos for some bands and foot the bill for the whole thing...

The metal community has suffered a lot of loss in 2009, and on Dec. 11, it suffered yet another. Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato revealed via Twitter that drummer Troy Young, who pounded the drums on some of the tracks on his experimental side project Spylacopa's debut EP, was found dead in his apartment...

In between Jamaica, Queens and Brooklyn's East New York is a quiet section of Queens called Woodhaven. If you don't have a car, the only way out of this woodsy and residential area of New York City is the J train. Whether by train or car, the neighborhood remains about an hour trek from Manhattan, making it a bit of a pain for concert goers to get to...

Although the mainstream largely shunned heavy metal in the 1990s, the last decade found our music getting more attention that it's ever gotten. Some of the finest releases the music has ever had were released from 2000 to 2009 and shows like VH1's 'The Metal Show' have proved very successful in the ratings game...

Isis have just released their video for the song '20 minutes/40 Years' -- actually calling it a video is a little deceiving, as it acts as more as a short story set to a score using one of the songs off the post-metal band's 'Waving Radiant' album that was released earlier this year...

In heavy metal design, images of dragons, maidens and swords have been replaced with an enigmatic mixture of color, shape and mood that reflect the "glacially slow" and intricate heaviness in drone and avant-garde metal's rising popularity. Ian Christe, author of 'Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal,' explains that though junior high schoolers and Norwegia

Josh Graham, vocalist/guitarist of New York City doomsters A Storm of Light told Noisecreep about his favorite Halloween costumes, candy and capers. He likes to dress up as dead music icons for Halloween. "My favorite was a dead Ian Curtis, with noose included," Graham said about the late Joy Division singer...

Chances are, you haven't heard of Jodis yet. The band features James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida from Khanate and Isis frontman Aaron Turner. The band's new album, 'Secret House,' drops Oct. 27, but isn't for everybody. The music would best be described as moody prog...

If you've been lucky enough to see Neurosis live, you've probably marveled at the mesmeric images that are projected during the band's droning, apocalyptic music. The artist and editor behind the film is Joshua Graham, who also designed the live visual show for Mastodon's tour in support of 'Crack the Skye...