Tag Archives: Noisey

Headbangers Brawl: A metal renaissance, or just hipster metal?

Posted by on February 16, 2015

As just about anyone who’s read about music on the Internet knows, websites and publications (ourselves included!) love doing end-of-year top album lists. And while there tend to be certain touch points of universal acclaim – if you wrote a top 10 metal albums list for 2014, either At The Gates, Pallbearer or both were […]

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SXSW panel asks if underground metal has surfaced

Posted by on March 14, 2014

It’s cool when other music fans get into the metal you like, right? Tell that to the underground faithful, who are often so protective of death, black, thrash and other forms of extreme music that they’re constantly concerned that metal will get diluted by outsiders. SXSW’s panel “Has Metal Lost Its Edge?” sounded like a […]

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PitBoy takes in a letlive. show

Posted by on November 25, 2013

[youtube]http://youtu.be/FptYaeh3jTs[/youtube] Noisey’s series “PitBoy” series begins with a disclaimer: “At Noisey we think that most live music on the internet is pretty boring. So we decided to strap a bunch of cameras to an intern and throw him into some of the most brutal mosh pits we could find – to capture the true atmosphere […]

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Ministry To Release “Final” Album In September

Posted by on March 28, 2013

Even before the release of Ministry’s “comeback” album Relapse last year, Al Jourgensen made it clear that the industrial metal pioneers won’t be around for much longer. And in an interview with Noisey, Jourgensen revealed that Ministry has one more album in it before calling it quits for good… again. During the interview, Jourgensen states […]

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Converge Frontman Jacob Bannon Profiled In Short Film

Posted by on January 23, 2013

[youtube]http://youtu.be/DeLgGw5BGqA[/youtube] What makes Jacob Bannon tick? That’s pretty much what you’ll find out upon watching Rungs in a Ladder: Jacob Bannon of Converge, a new short documentary that debuted on Vice’s music site, Noisey. It’s a sparse film that plays more like a monologue than a profile, featuring Bannon talking about what guides his life while […]

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What Do Drag Queens Think Of Napalm Death?

Posted by on March 14, 2012

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwWFVMlCV4[/youtube] Almost every metal and grindcore fan loves Napalm Death. And their latest album Utilitarian proves that the death metal legends still kick ass even after almost three decades together. But what do drag queens and trannies think of Napalm Death? Apparently that question has been on the minds of whoever works at Vice Magazine’s […]

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