Zoroaster

If you desire an evening of metal that you can't categorize and is as hip as it is brutal, then you need to head out on a cosmic march to see Zoroaster and Weedeater on their upcoming trek, which launches Feb. 28 in Detroit. There is nothing trendy about either band, so if you want to destroy your hearing and have your mind blown, this tour has your name tattooed all over it...

UPDATE: See our final list of the best metal videos of 2010. 2010 has been a great year for metal videos, crying out for a best-of list. Fan-made brutality, animation, space travel -- 2010's had it all. But it's so easy to miss a video in the myriad of premieres, so out of hope that nothing gets left out, we here at Noisecreep offer up our best of the best metal videos so far this year... Read Mor

Sure Zoroaster can be called doom metal, but they've never fit too snugly into the genre tag, despite their undeniable low and slow riffs. The psychedelic experimentations have always shifted the Atlanta three-piece into formidable new sonic territories...

Zoroaster's 'Matador' might be one of the most anticipated records this year -- and it deserves to be. The sludge-bending trio is not holding back on their third full-length, for what seems to be not some new direction but a refinement of the various paths and experimentations the band has has over the years...

Well, the new Zoroaster track, "Black Hole," is 'black' not only in name, but also in sound. The song retains much of Zoroaster's signature southern-fried sludge demeanor, but unexpectedly features a layer of reverb-soaked black metal riffing...

After hearing the debut album from Conan, 'Horseback Battle Hammer,' we can't help but wonder if the recent spate of earthquakes plaguing the globe might have been caused by the reverberations emanating from Conan's U.K.-based practice space...

Black Tusk have just announced another round of late spring and summer tour dates that extend their already never-ending itinerary. After touring with Skeletonwitch back in late January, the Savannah, Ga. band found time to finish recording its debut LP for Relapse Records, 'Taste the Sin,' with Jay Matheson and Steve Slavich in Columbia, S...

Mastodon guitarist and vocalist Bret Hinds appears in the latest video by Zoroaster, 'White Dwarf,' which comes from the band's 2009 album 'Voice of Saturn.' The clip features an abstract Mastodon-worthy concept about a white dwarf star that crashes into Saturn, causing aliens to seek refuge on Earth...

Webster Hall's the Studio in New York City isn't much like the upstairs part of the classic venue. It's your typical basement music spot and not a historical dance hall. Yet this writer has seen some magical performances at the Studio, including a whacked out Zoroaster...

Savannah, Ga.'s Black Tusk are currently laying a hurtin' on their current tour with Weedeater. Drummer James May checked in from the road, offering his thoughts on why Georgia has exported some of the best up and coming metal over the past several years, with the likes of Mastodon, Zoroaster, Becoming the Archetype and Black Tusk spilling out of the state...