Now that we're more than half way through with 2012, Noisecreep finally decided get a list up of our favorite albums released so far this year. As you'll see below, the list includes everything from veterans of the Bay Area Thrash scene, to younger underground bands...
Blood and stop-motion were the weapons of metal videos this year. Some made great uses of digital technology, and others lost themselves in the edits. Vampire nurses, blood-soaked ladies, space travel -- 2010 had it all. But it's so easy to miss a video in the myriad of premieres...
After playing support slots on tour after tour for the last millennium or so, Chicago-based psych/black metal band Nachtmystium will launch a major headline tour on Sept. 9 in Dekalb, Ill. Dates run through Oct. 2 in their hometown.
Nachtmystium will be joined by Atlanta-based doom metal band Zoroaster, Chicago psychedelic sludge screamers the Atlas Moth and Florida doom band Dark Castle...
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Appalachian troubadours U.S. Christmas will be releasing 'Run Thick in the Night,' their fifth album, this fall via Neurot Recordings. The band, whose quirky name is pulled from the 1973 Sam Peckinpah film 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,' peddle a "unique brand of psychedelic, high-volume blues rock," according to their bio, but the description sells U...
New Orleans' Eyehategod make metal that's sludgier than a NOLA swamp, and the band will finally tour the U.S. after a significant absent from the road circuit other than weekend warrior gigging.
"It's first U.S. tour in a long time, and while we've been doing shows all over, it's been regional in the South," singer Mike Williams told Noisecreep...
Mega-evil speed metal band Lightning Swords of Death releases their second full-length, 'The Extra Dimensional Wound' -- their first for Metal Blade. Gracing the cover is artwork by vocalist Farron Loathing of Farron Loathing Illustration.
"This cover is a combination of graphite drawing and some digital painting," Farron told Noisecreep...
Members of Ministry/Revolting Cocks/Killing Joke, Sonic Youth and Nachtmystium have formed the High Confessions, a brand new band signed to Relapse. Industrial plus indie rock royalty plus black metal? What say you?
Singer Chris Connelly (Ministry/Revolting Cocks/Killing Joke), drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), ex-Nachtmystium keyboardist Sanford Parker and recording engineer Jeremy Lemos, who
Mastodon guitarist and vocalist Bret Hinds appears in the latest video by Zoroaster, 'White Dwarf,' which comes from the band's 2009 album 'Voice of Saturn.' The clip features an abstract Mastodon-worthy concept about a white dwarf star that crashes into Saturn, causing aliens to seek refuge on Earth...
Jarboe has been exceptionally busy over the last six months. The Atlanta-based vocalist contributed vocals to A Storm of Light's latest record, 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses' and has also been touring constantly, though she is not part of the reformation of her old band, Swans...