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Two weeks back, Noisecreep profiled ten top tier metal records to take us all the way to the Mayan calendar melt-down on Dec 21. But why stop at just ten? The likes of Pig Destroyer, As I Lay Dying and The Acacia Strain all have upcoming records worth your attention...

Reigning grindcore champions Pig Destroyer have revealed the title of their highly anticipated new album to be Book Burner. The band recently completed self-recording their razor-sharp fifth-full length and first album in over five years at guitarist Scott Hull's Visceral Sound Studios...

2011 was a killer year for heavy metal and hard rock. New albums from the likes of Mastodon, Krallice, and Craft, among many other acts, floored us and proved that the artists we cover here are among the most stylistically diverse in music today...

It's been five years since Circle of Dead Children have emerged from the Steel Town sewers with a new album, but these Pittsburgh-based, blackened crust grinders are escaping from the underground armed with the new album, 'Psalm of the Grand Destroyer,' a self-proclaimed "nasty bomb" due out June 8 on Willowtip...

Those who feel nauseous after seeing controversial redneck metal band Nashville Pussy will be more likely to lose their lunch than ever when the band play on April 8 in New York with Green Jelly and Psychostick. Not only will the concert feature guitarist Ruyter Suys' sleazy exploits, it will take place on The Jewel, a cruise ship that will rock with the waves as the crowd rocks to the bands... R

I usually go to four or five shows a week. It's how I discover many of my favorite bands and meet lifelong friends. Sometimes I see bands that are less than stimulating. Sometimes I see bands that are great. But, it's not so often that I see a band that makes me want to start a fan club for them...

Filmmaker David Hall, who lensed a doc on Maryland Deathfest 7 and makes films based on full metal albums, has an interesting -- and initially terrifying -- history with metal! "When I was a kid, my best friend's dad scared me off metal with stories of Kiss eating feces off the floor and Ozzy Osbourne drinking buckets of communal spit and puppy blood," Hall told Noisecreep...

Seattle's heaviest export, Shadow of the Torturer, are no strangers to change. The current incarnation of the band is comprised of three hardy scene veterans who've all done time in other bands (Aldebaran, H.C. Minds, North American Bison, the Fartz), and its original lineup boasted current and ex-members of Yob, Engorged, Fall of the Bastards and Oakhelm...

About.com's Chad Bower has been a respectable voice in the metal music industry for two decades, so his top picks for the upcoming releases in 2010 are worth keeping an eye on. Many of his choices feature lineup changes in established bands throughout various metal subgenres...

Pig Destroyer do not tour. They just don't. So when they do take to the stage, their inclusion on a bill is treated like images of the mother of Christ on toast -- even the faithful have their doubts. "Are they really playing?" is what was heard from mouths all around before a member of the band or merch was spotted at The Masquerade on Dec...