ScaleTheSummit

With The Collective, tech-metal savants Scale the Summit released one of 2011's most thrilling instrumental albums. Featuring the guitar team of Chris Letchford and Travis Levrier, the Houston-based quartet construct the kind of songwriting both progressive-minded listeners and straight-up metalheads can both get behind...

Conducting From the Grave, The Contortionist, Scale the Summit, Rings of Saturn, and Volumes and Structures will embark on the Slaughter Survivors tour this summer. Each band has at least one thing in common: none of them won the Facebook fan voting competition to fill the opening slot on the fifth annual Summer Slaughter tour...

When it comes to instrumental metal, few bands can claim the winning balance of technicality and songwriting smarts that Scale the Summit possess. The Houston natives have recently become one of the most exciting young groups in the tech-metal sweepstakes today ...

On Nov. 27, the same day they released their latest LP, 'The Great Misdirect,' Raleigh, N.C.-hailing progressive metallers Between the Buried and Me have revealed they'll be touring the U.S. in early 2010 with Cynic, Scale the Summit and the Devin Townsend Project...

Animals as Leaders, the progressive instrumental project of eight-string guitar virtuoso Tosin Abasi (ex-Reflux, Born of Osiris), is currently preparing for its first ever tour: a three-week run alongside Between the Buried and Me. Set to kick off on Nov...

Ace Mark from Bigelf is currently on the road with the Progressive Nation 2009 tour with Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale the Summit. He hates people who write about themselves in the third person. Denver After a day off in Omaha, Neb...

Ace Mark from Bigelf is currently on the road with the Progressive Nation 2009 tour with Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale the Summit. He hates people who write about themselves in the third person. Winnipeg, Manitoba After a dreadful 24-hour drive from Toronto to Winnipeg, we finally got to the Burton Cummings Theater...

Mike Portnoy has more than just a hand in the Progressive Nation tour, currently in its second year. While his band, Dream Theater, has headlined both years of the tour's incarnation, the drummer, an avid music fan, also curated both years' lineups...

A couple of weeks back, 'True Blood' fan and Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy stopped by the Noisecreep offices – not long after the launch of the band's Progressive Nation tour with Zappa Plays Zappa, Scale the Summit and Bigelf – to talk to us about a number of things. Like what?...