Protest the Hero

Our neighbor to the North -- we mean Canada -- has its Canadian Independent Music Award, also known as the Indies every year, and the organization is celebrating its 10th year! Those Canadian defenders of the metal faith known as 3 Inches of Blood have been nominated for Metal Artist/Group of the Year...

"We played a show ... got pretty drunk. And they f---in' filmed it. That's our DVD," Protest the Hero vocalist Rody Walker told Noisecreep about the Canadian band's DVD, 'Gallop Meets the Earth,' due out Sept. 15. The DVD is a two-disc set, with an audio CD from a headlining show in Toronto last December -- which was recorded in HD, 5...

Strung Out are celebrating their 20th year together, but they still have more fans in the punk and hardcore world than they do in the metal community. That doesn't mean their high-energy hybrid of both genres doesn't deserve the Noisecreep seal of approval...

Another week is in the books, people, and the summer's just getting started (although it feels like Seattle in December here in New York City lately; what gives, Ma Nature?) This month, some of the summer's biggest tours will be kicking off, and we're psyched about that...

Protest the Hero guitarist Tim Millar had been growing his beard from three years in order to compete in the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships, held on May 23 in Anchorage, Alaska. Millar competed in the "Alaskan Whale" category and while he didn't take home the top prize for his face fur, he relished the experience, nonetheless...

TGIFF, right? Man, it was a busy week for us here at Noisecreep, and now, it's time to let our headbangin' hair down for the long weekend. We ended the week on a high note, though. The dudes from Bury Your Dead stopped by our offices yesterday, and they talked to us about their new album and that van accident they all barely walked away from last fall...