Neurosis

With everyone and their mother racing to post their year-end lists before the end of 2009, Noisecreep's token kvlt kommando 'Grim' Kim Kelly figured she may as well rain on everyone's parade and concoct a nasty little list of her own. Thusly, Noisecreep's Top 10 Black Metal Records of 2009 have been lovingly selected and dissected for your listening pleasure...

Shrinebuilder -- the much-hailed supergroup consisting of Scott 'Wino' Weinrich (the Obsessed, the Hidden Hand, St. Vitus), Dale Crover (Melvins), Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om) and Scott Kelly (Neurosis) -- recently unleashed their self-titled debut album upon the world...

The night before Thanksgiving is a terrible time to book a show -- everyone's out of town or is already parked on their sofa or in the kitchen getting ready for the next day's feast. Unfortunately, the show must always go on, and if you're a touring band with the distinct lack of fortune to land in a major city right before a national holiday, well, time to suck it up...

2009 was a fantastic year for heavy music. Not only was Noisecreep launched (just joking), some of our favorite bands came back from hibernation, showing us that playing metal and hardcore isn't just a young person's sport. With the end of the year upon us, every magazine and Web site is unleashing its 'top 10 of 2009' list, and Noisecreep is no different...

Two of the most iconic female members of the counterculture, No Wave pioneer and poet Lydia Lunch and Swans vocalist Jarboe, guest on the electrifying new A Storm of Light album 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses,' making an otherwise excellent album even more awe-inspiring...

For their second studio album, 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses,' Brooklyn, N.Y. post-metal band A Storm of Light concocted a conceptual thread that would match the intensity of the doomy riffs and turbulent atmospherics. "The whole idea is based on the theory that the planet is a conscious being that has been sleeping for years," frontman Joshua Graham tells Noisecreep...

While Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Wino (Saint Vitus), Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep) and Dale Crover (Melvins) were combining their masterful minds below Bleeker Street, a line that included women in tall glittery boots, fishnets and bust-breaking corsets and men dressed just as club-ready was developing outside for a fetish party that was happening in the same venue...

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...

This past week, metal was on the brink of clinching #1 on the charts thanks to an iconic rock band -- until some Hallmark mothers decided to purchase Michael Buble. Nevertheless as reported by our friends over at Metal Insider, the legendary rock act Kiss respectably took the #2 debut with 108,000 albums sold in its first week...

During the 1990s, it was awesome being a New York Yankees fan. Scott Brosius, Paul O'Neill, Tino Martinez, Bernie, Chuck, Jeter. Then, 9/11 happened, and ever since, it seems as though the Yanks have struggled to get back to the World Series...