Suffokate

Suffokate vocalist Ricky Hoover isn't just a rock dude. He and his father own a company called Gotwood Plugs, which manufactures 100 percent organic body jewelry and ear plugs. Hoover's interest in body modification developed at a young age, where he self-pierced, and the rest, as they say, is history...

Suffokate will return to the metal scene later this year with a new album called 'Return to Despair' and the band is admittedly excited to demonstrate a new side of itself to the world. "We feel that everyone stepped it up on the new material," vocalist Ricky Hoover told Noisecreep...

Last Saturday, California Metalfest V took over The Grove, a 1,700-person capacity venue in Anaheim, California, as 30 bands on two stages played in front of headbangers from all over SoCal. Scene favorites As I Lay Dying headlined the event...

Texas natives Upon a Burning Body aren't part of the underground metal scene anymore. The band just released its debut, 'The World Is Ours,' and is currently on tour with Carnifex, Suffokate and Your Demise. No strangers to the road, the members of Upon a Burning Body have been playing gigs and honing their sound for years...

British death metallers Annotations of an Autopsy have cancelled their second consecutive U.S. tour the same day the tour was expected to launch in New Jersey. The trek also features the likes of Carnifex, Suffokate, Your Demise and Upon A Burning Body...

Chicago progressive metallers Veil of Maya are releasing their sophomore album for Sumerian Records this week, and any Noisecreep reader who has taken Psych 101 will recognize the title, '.' In fact, the album concept and artwork heavily involve the human brain...

'Hello Chose Me' is the first single and title track from the new Carnifex album, and thanks to our friends over at Revolver the video for the blast beat fantastic song has been unleashed. "To make an interesting video you kind of have to sacrifice some things," vocalist Scott Lewis told Noisecreep earlier this month about the deathcore outfit's third video...

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

Want to know how Charred Walls of the Damned got their name? Curious to find out just what kind of stupid human trick producer and guitarist Jason Suecof can do with his testicles? Ever wonder what it would be like to be in a band with a singer who conducts Satanic youth group meetings on the side...

Last week was a healthy week for metal in stores. HIM debuted at the top spot on the Hard Rock charts, with 26,000 copies scanned in a 'hearty' – get it?- debut. Fear Factory landed at 6 on the Hard Rock chart, with 10,300 in sales for their first album with Dino Cazares back in the lineup. 4,00...