Unsane

A Friday night at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Union Pool usually consists of madness from wall to wall. And with snow still on the ground, Feb. 12 was no different. Well, it was a little different, because the back room was filled with people waiting to see Made Out of Babies, Unsane, United Nations and Dark Vibe...

A song or two after noise rock monsters Unsane started played, vocalist Chris Spencer wanted to make sure everyone in the audience heard the most important statement of the night. "We just wanted to play this show to hang with each other," Spencer said after he got the attention of the crowd at New York City's Union Pool on Feb...

Two of the most iconic female members of the counterculture, No Wave pioneer and poet Lydia Lunch and Swans vocalist Jarboe, guest on the electrifying new A Storm of Light album 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses,' making an otherwise excellent album even more awe-inspiring...

Entering into the first week of September, Noisecreep starts the month off with some amazing releases and notable debuts on the charts from the week prior. Reported by the good folks at Metal Insider, the projected 10-15,000 units sold was damn near spot on with Victory's Otep pulling in the highest debut, with 10,400 albums sold...

Chris Spencer has always been a fan of blood, knives and half-dispoed-of remains of dead bodies. The album artwork for his now-on-hiatus band Unsane was always some kind of re-imagined urban murder scene. Sometimes they were a made-up display, while others -- like the classic 'Scattered, Smothered & Covered' artwork, based on photos from Mexican death magazines -- recreated real-life scenes. S

Cable have never been a band who's actions are easy to predict. But back in 2006, when the band released the 12-year retrospective CD/DVD 'Last Call' and called it quits, everyone figured that Cable's unique mix of sludge, murk and loud was never to be heard again...

Chris Spencer has done a lot in his musical career. Most notably, he's known as the blistering voice and founder of New York City hardcore mainstays Unsane. But he's started a new band, Celan, which was birthed during a conversation about recording in a specific studio – the legendary andereBaustelle Studio in Germany, where the last Einstürzende Neubauten records were recorded. "Unsane wa...

Is it possible to be a "heavy" band without being a "metal" band? One needs to look no further than New York City for the answer, where bands such as Quicksand, Helmet and Unsane have for the most part avoided the metal tag, despite being unquestionably heavy...