Tombs

Kylesa are known as one of the hardest-working bands in underground extreme music. It seems like the Savannah, Ga.-based quintet (that includes not one, but two drummers, mind you) is on the road more often than not. And on top of that, every Kylesa album seems better than the last...

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...

So, we were at a show last week, and noticed something strange. See, we realize it's uncouth to wear a band shirt to that same band's concert. It's like wearing an 'I Love New York' shirt in Times Square. We see dudes all the time when we go to shows wearing shirts with the logos of bands on the bill, and it almost always inspires a smart-ass remark...

A blog posted over at Invisible Oranges this week has us asking this question: Is it possible to love a band but hate their fans? Cosmo Lee wonders in the column if there's some sense of self-loathing involved in hating fans of a band you dig...

Is it Monday already? Man, our weekends just seem to fly by. We can't believe its almost August already, and we also can't believe Fred Durst is actually married, but more on that later. This morning's White Noise is teeming with all of the weekend's heavy metal and hardcore news...

Have you ever been stuck in a relationship that made you miserable? You want to end things, hoping you'll find some joy in life. But for some reason, you stick it out, and suffer. Well, imagine what it must be like to be in a band you can't stand anymore...

Yesterday, more than a billion sets of eyes watched as a packed Staples Center bid a final farewell to the King of Pop. Let's hope that, starting today, the world begins to move on from Jackson's premature passing, because the truth is, people die everyday...

"Originally we were going to be going out with Intronaut for the month of May," says Tombs' Mike Hill. "ut they got sucked up into the Mastodon tour, so that headlining tour got canceled. And within a 24-hour period we were offered the Enslaved tour on the east coast, but Enslaved are going to do a support slot for Opeth on their next tour and are not going to be doing a headlining

"I have no problem at all with , honestly," Tombs mainman Mike Hill recently told Noisecreep when asked if he had any thoughts on people sharing music online and sending MP3s around to each other. "People have always shared music, be it on a cassette tape or whatever...

To be fair, Chris McCaddon, singer of Famine, has nothing against death metal bands. It's those "death metal bands" he has a problem with. "A band, who will not be named, they just show up and don't know anything about their gear or about music," McCaddon told Noisecreep in our New York office...