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It's the mother of all soccer/metal publicity stunts, like Spinal Tap with a soccer backstory! Global advertising agency W+K created the first and only soccer-inspired metal band, Group of Death. The name is a reference to the toughest, opening-round group chosen during the World Cup draw and Group of Death were conceived in order to help promote the fevered moment of the sport's highly competiti

Designer Brian Porizek has been nominated for the Best Packaging for his stand up work for Spinal Tap's 'Back from the Dead,' which features fold-out cardboard figurines of the legendary sort-of-fictional metal band. "There's so many talented artists out there creating album art," Porizek told Noisecreep...

The documentary film 'Anvil: the Story of Anvil,' by Sascha Gervasi ('The Big Tease,' 'The Terminal'), is a heartfelt story of determination, perseverance and misfortune that chronicles Canadian metal band Anvil's 30-plus year struggle to battle anonymity and keep rocking...

Enough with the lists, folks. Is it just us, or does it seem like everybody's obsessed with them these days. Numerous metal and hard rock sites (including Noisecreep) have been rolling out these lists ... the best albums of this decade, the best thrash bands, the best death metal bands, the best death metal albums ...

Hey you! Yeah you, kid with the great video camera and who quotes Spinal Tap at every opportune moment. Well, your time to shine is here. Spinal Tap is having a "Make Your Own Video Contest" and the winner will get a prize pack of autographed awesomeness that has been described as "wicked"...

Sworn Enemy - 'Total World Domination' - Century Media I think of hardcore and metal in a cage match and this album was the end result. It carries the old school hardcore resonance, and then out of nowhere comes in some double pedal bass drum...

'"Back From the Dead' is our triumph over death," says Spinal Tap. "In fact, some of our greatest fans are dead." Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, the creators of 'This Is Spinal Tap' have reanimated England's loudest band to revisit and re-imagine their 1984 soundtrack along with track-by-track commentary on an accompanying DVD...

Never one to pull punches and avoid controversy, NOFX frontman Fat Mike is now ready to incur the wrath of metal fans. In a recent interview with Noisecreep, the punk rocker discussed a new song about the history of Iron Maiden and what happened after he called Avenged Sevenfold "the epitome of what's wrong with rock and roll...

Man, what a gorgeous weekend we had here in New York, despite what every single meteorologist told us heading into the holiday. What an awesome job that must be, huh? You can be wrong all the time, and still, no one fires you. Must be nice. Anyways, we've been away for three days now, which means we've got three days of metal news to catch you up on...