mars volta

Just because Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez are reuniting At the Drive-In, their much-loved '90s-era post-hardcore outfit, it doesn't mean they're abandoning The Mars Volta, the band they've led since 2001. As Rolling Stone reports, The Mars Volta will release their sixth album, 'Noctourniquet,' on March 27...

There are supergroups, and then there are almost-too-good-to-be-true supergroups. Falling squarely in the latter camp is the currently un-named project that Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds is working on with Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman, former Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen and ex-Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery...

Sometimes, when a band's got new material to promote, you can't get them to tone it down in interviews. The band dudes just exude excitement and will sit there and wax poetic for two hours about the songs they're "just so proud for people to finally hear...

We've all seen the images displayed from the tragedy in Haiti: survivors grabbing press crew hoping they are actually doctors while still, even now, news of people being pulled from the blankets of rumble still comes through every day. "My reaction is that of a human being...

Despite their effeminate name, Montreal, Canada heavy rockers Priestess are anything but polite. They hit hard with their 2005 debut, 'Hello Master,' and they hit even harder with their follow-up, 'Prior to the Fire,' which is out already in the band's native Canada via Indica and due out next month in the U...

Montreal-based Priestess have been quiet this summer, working away at their sophomore record, 'Prior to the Fire.' Having just signed to New York City's Tee Pee Records, the band is expecting to release the new LP in February, and have been working with Los Angeles producer David Schiffman, whose track record includes System of a Down, Mars Volta and Nine Inch Nails...

Massive could be an understatement when it comes to the response to metal releases this past week. Coming in with the full reports as always, the good folks at Metal Insider reported some big debuts and numbers for new albums that dropped this past week...

Vinyl records should have been something dead and buried when the digital age took its big thick grasp, as the number one music store in the country became a digital one. But the truth is, vinyl might be a driving force, helping keep the aching music industry alive -- especially in the underground metal and punk community, which is what Eric Mueller from Pirate Press told Noisecreep in an intervie

Man, what a night. We spent a few hours inside New York's Avatar Studios with Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson, and got our first listen at the band's epic forthcoming LP, 'The Incident,' which will be released September 22 as a two-disc offering; we can't get the song "Time Flies" out of our heads...

In the hard rock hierarchy, Metallica are widely regarded as being in that iconic group that includes AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin. But to Underoath, Metallica are resting on those laurels. "I think a lot of bands get away with a lot of crap because of who they are, like Metallica, 'St...