Mercyful Fate

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

Barbecue? Check. Meats? Check. Booze? Check. Fireworks we scored over the weekend in New Jersey, because they're illegal in New York? Check. Sounds like we're ready for the Fourth of July weekend. Are you? The gang here at Noisecreep loves July Fourth, so much so that it's our favorite holiday, because, let's face it, Independence Day is rather metal...

The high pitch scream is as synonymous with heavy metal as Dio's "metal horns." Throughout the 80s, approximately two out of five metal bands employed a singer who rocked the high-pitched delivery and wasn't afraid to use it. The next decade was especially rough for acts who favored this singing style...

Thank you, Jenny (not photographed at left), for providing this weeks Ask The 'Creep - Who was the first band to wear corpse paint? We could enter into a long, convoluted discussion of face painting in the theater, German Expressionist cinema, monster movies, and blah, blah, blah, but the short answer is "Alice Cooper...