ThreatSignal

Having just wrapped up a tour supporting Killswitch Engage and the Devil Wears Prada, Swedish metal sorcerers Dark Tranquillity are wasting no time getting those U.S. work visas ready and processed again. The band will return for a headlining run of North America with Threat Signal and Mutiny Within riding sidecar...

In an era where fans are downloading music off the Internet without paying for it, Nuclear Blast Records and Amazon are teaming up to make downloaders feel less like the criminals they're portrayed to be by the RIAA. The companies have assembled the 'Sinister Spring Sampler,' a collection of 11 songs by Nuclear Blast artists, and they've put it online...

So what does a band whose singer has been called "a star" and an "enigmatic manic personality onstage" by the person who signed them have to do when they plan to release only animated music videos? The answer -- tour. "This has been one of those things where have been having a big huge battle with us as to how people are going to see us," admits Hail the Villain fro

As Canada's Threat Signal ready 'Vigilance,' their new album, for release, vocalist Jon Howard wants the headbangers who haven't heard of his band yet to know Threat Signal aren't a one trick pony. "Threat Signal combine a lot of elements found in metal and rock, and we are not a one trick pony," Howard told Noisecreep...

The holiday weekend has passed, and while Noisecreep got some rest, there was no rest for the wicked on retail shelves when it came to metal. With amazing releases in tow, last week metal made its mark on the charts. Reported from the crew over at Metal Insider, the top releases of the week were notable debuts ifrom Solid State's Oh, Sleeper, with 4,000 units sold in the first week...

Attention class, metal is back in session for the month of September -- as if it ever really went away. With a myriad of new metal and rock releases coming in, veterans of the genre Ace Frehley and Megadeth are making their appearance right back in the spotlight...

You might say the guys in Flatline are bringing back thrash. Heavily touring this summer behind 'Pave the Way,' the band is poised for the next level of rock n' roll fame. The only problem being the band members don't exactly know how to classify their sound...

"There are some rumors about Fear Factory, but from a legal standpoint, none of them are true," Fear Factory/Arkaea drummer Raymond Herrera told Noisecreep somewhat cryptically. "I am still in Fear Factory and so is Christian and we are ultimately doing this project because we can...