suffocation

Our friends at Decibel magazine are presenting The Decibel Defiance Tour 2010, which is full of bands with names that are guaranteed to scare the local kids in the neighborhood. The tour boasts New York death metal mainstays Suffocation. Also in tow for the Suffocation tour dates are deathcorists Through the Eyes of the Dead, tech-deathers Decrepit Birth and Italian avant garde metalions Fleshgod

While a good majority of the metal world was celebrating loud and heavy music at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival on April 23, a very small minority of Brooklyn, N.Y. was celebrating old-school death metal with Mutant Supremacy...

New York City's Child Abuse make some really weird free-jazz-inspired grindcore. Luke Calzonetti is responsible for one third of the sounds his band makes. Lately the keyboardist and vocalist finds himself working out to death metal titans Suffocation and addicted to Twitter...

Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster once called Santa Cruz, California death metal band Brain Drill "one of the most musically over-the-top bands I have ever heard. They are truly raising the bar for technicality, velocity and overall extremity in death metal...

Fresh off their first headlining tour in January and February, Chicago's Veil of Maya immediately got back on the road to support the band's forthcoming third record, ',' without much hesitation. Even with a successful headliner packing clubs, Veil of Maya aren't ones to rest on their laurels, because next up was a string of dates with Unearth before both bands met up with the rest of the roster f

You may not have the coin to fly down for any of the dates on Guns N' Roses' upcoming South American trek, but the good news is you'll be able to see footage from the concerts, at some point, as Axl Rose has hired music video director Dale "Rage" Resteghini to document the tour...

When we caught up with Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler during a brief spate of downtime from the road, he was happily spending lots of quality time with his 18-month-old daughter. "When I am not on tour, I soak up every minute I can with her," Adler told Noisecreep...

Ask a band what their music sounds like and nine times out of 10, they won't want to use a 'label' or 'genrify' their sound. Bands eschew categorization, that's for sure. Southern California's Carnifex aren't one of those bands thumbing their noses at markers or tags when it comes to their music...

Last week the folks at Relapse Records announced that they would be releasing the debut EP by Abraxas. The old-school styled death metal band features Makoto Mizoguchi (Pyrexia, Hate Eternal) on guitar and bass, Mike Hrubovcak (Monstrosity, Vile) on vocals, and Lance Wright (Vile) behind the drum kit...

Death metal stalwarts Suffocation and Napalm Death are embarking on a jaunt together, criss-crossing Latin America in the spring. Death metal fans in the region, known for their fevered dedication to the genre, are best served by stocking up on earplugs...