Nachtmystium

Lava-spewing volcanoes look pretty damn cool on album covers, but the past week has taught us that volcanoes and metal don't always mix so well. As anyone who doesn't live in a torch-lit cave knows by now, an Icelandic volcano erupted April 15, spreading clouds of ash across much of Europe and grounding hundreds of planes...

Carl Porcaro and Chris Skowronski of Killing Time have joined forces with Uppercut vocalist Steve Murphy for a doomy side band dubbed Kings Destroy, which are storming forth out of the mean streets of Brooklyn. They're more like Yob or the Melvins than they are like Killing Time...

New York black metal band Black Anvil may have been influenced by progenitors of the genre such as Celtic Frost, Bathory and Sodom, but for some reason they've reached out to one of the aesthetic enemies of their forefathers to produce their second album, 'Triumvirate...

Earlier this year, Chicago-hailing extreme metallers Nachtmystium entered a recording studio to begin tracking the follow-up to 2008's 'Assassins: Black Meddle Part I' under the vigilant eyes of Minsk producer Sanford Parker. On June 8, Century Media will release that effort, called 'Addicts: Black Meddle Part II...

'Portal of Sorrow' is going to be the last undertaking to bear the Xasthur name. "The honorable thing to do is to end the band and not hang around too long, like so many metal/black metal bands do. Enough is enough, right?" The multi-instrumentalist Malefic stated on the release of the ninth full-length as his one-man band moniker...

For years now, the good folks at MetalSucks and SMN News have helped bring some of the most sinister tours around to your town, and this June, they'll be doing it again. New Orleans sludge metallers Eyehategod will be taking to the blacktop starting June 3 in Orlando, Fla...

Four musicians from some of the most influential metal, hard and indie rock circles have joined forces to form the High Confessions. Planting their roots in Chicago, the band consists of Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Killing Joke), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Sanford Parker (Minsk, Nachtmystium, Buried at Sea), and noted recording engineer Jeremy Lemos (Smog, Stereolab, Jim O'Rourke)

"I'm not sure if there is anything unifying the American black metal scene," Wolves in the Throne Room guitarist/vocalist Nathan Weaver told Noisecreep. While USBM -- U.S. black metal, if you really need to have it spelled out -- has been gaining more and more attention lately, Wolves in the Throne Room are one of the bands at the center of the attention, even if they don't want to be..

This March marks the second Scion Rock Fest, which premiered in Atlanta last February. The location has moved to Columbus, Ohio and will take place on March 13. Once again, the event will be free, and you'll need to RSVP and follow the instructions to obtain your ticket, as there is a limited supply...

Chicago's finest (some might even say America's finest) black metallers, Nachtmystium, recently entered Semaphore Recording Studio to record 'Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2,' the follow-up to 2008's 'Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1.' Noisecreep caught up with engineer Sanford Parker (Pelican, Samothrace, Unearthly Trance) to get the inside scoop...