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Two major radio rock acts, Smile Empty Soul and Soil will launch a two-month long tour tomorrow night in Los Angeles at the Key Club, along with Black Sunshine, the new band featuring Volkl team freeskier Matt Reardon. The tour will circle North America and end May 22 in Santa Clara, Calif...

Black Sunshine, a new band featuring freestyle skier Matt Reardon and ex-Filter and Theory of a Deadman guitarist Charles Lee, will release their self-titled debut on April 13. A track from the disc, 'Once in My Life' is available for streaming on their MySpace page...

Chicago hard rockers Soil have been around for over a decade, despite departures by longtime guitarist Shaun Glass and vocalist Ryan McCombs, who now fronts Drowning Pool. The band has enjoyed a modicum of radio success but has never let record label changes and rock's hard knocks get them down...

It's nearly impossible to scan metal news regularly these days without reading about another band breaking up. That's why you have to give a group like Stygian a lot of respect. The Langhorne, Pa. hard rockers are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, and while that on its own is commendable, the fact they've done it without the power of a label behind them puts the feat on a whole new le

Arkaea, the project featuring Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera, late of Fear Factory, are rolling right along since the release of 'Years in the Darkness.' As was Burton C. Bell when we asked him, drummer Herrera was tight-lipped about the Fear Factory developments, since that's a whole legal drama in and of itself...

"I can turn on my garbage disposal and let it rip for an hour, with a blast beat on top of it, and get the same result as music that has no melody," Dirge Within guitarist (and ex-Soil axe) Shaun Glass told Noisecreep, referring to heavy music that doesn't incorporate memorable melodies into the mix...

We've all seen that dude who wears a band's shirt to that same band's concert. But yesterday, when we were in the record store, we noticed something we've never seen before. A dude in line, buying a band's new album, wearing said band's T-shirt...