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Heavy Metal Cat Drummer Takes Over the Internet + More News

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 4:30PM by Amy Sciarretto Comments

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Fat cats and death metal? What a match made in heaven. Check out this chubby feline rocking the blast beat air drums in the video below which has become a viral hit these past few days.

The hilarious clip was created by a member of Visionaires, a Florida-based metal band. The song in the video comes courtesy of an Australian group called Thy Art Is Murder. How popular has the video below become? Well, the Death Metal Fat Cat Facebook page already has over 11,000 likes. That's more than a lot of the "real" bands we cover on Noisecreep!

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Our Last Night Tour Diary #2: Buffalo Wild Wings, Parties + More Mayhem (PHOTO EXCLUSIVE)

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 3:40PM by Carlos Ramirez Comments

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Our Last Night is currently out on tour in support of Age of Ignorance, their fourth album. The U.S. trip finds the post-hardcore heroes joined by Woe, Is Me, Chunk! No Captain Chunk, Secrets, Capture the Crown and The Seeking.

Noisecreep has partnered with Our Last Night to bring you an exclusive tour diary from the band. Here is the second installment. Enjoy!

From Our Last Night:

"After the Memphis show we made our way to Texas where we would be spending the next couple days. First stop in the Lone Star state wonderful Houston, Texas! There was a great turn out, and as always Warehouse Live continued to be one of our favorite venues! Below is a quick photo taken of Doriano Magliano one of the lead vocalists of Woe, Is Me!

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Texas in July Bassist on Their New Album's Sound: 'It's Finally Us'

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 2:15PM by Carlos Ramirez Comments

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"We decided to just call the album Texas In July because the more we listened to the final product, the more we realized that we had finally found what we had been trying to write for years," Texas In July bassist Ben Witkowski tells Noisecreep.

We're on the phone with Witkowski during Texas In July's current European tour in support of their brand new self-titled album. The bassist says while he's extremely proud of their new record, he still stands behind their earlier work. "We were super-young when we wrote I Am [2009], but a lot of people love it. So I try not to bash our older songs. I'm still pleased with that early stuff."

For Texas In July, the Pennsylvania-based metalcore group worked with producer Will Putney (For Today, Chiodos), resulting in their most dynamic set of songs yet. "With this album, we can finally say, 'It's finally us.' We worked really hard on the songwriting and Will was so easy to work with."

The album also features guest performances from vocalist Dave Stephens of We Came As Romans, August Burns Red drummer Matt Greiner and Hundredth vocalist Chad Johnson.

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Heavy Metal Christmas Songs: 10 Awesome Holiday Rock Jams

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 1:05PM by Allyson B. Crawford Comments

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There isn't much metal about traditional Christmas music. Lucky for us, many of our favorite artists have made their own holiday tunes to make the end of the year a little more brutal. Some of our favorite bands have even recorded covers of holiday classics as well. You know, just in case you want to spin a couple of more familiar tunes while you open presents are your parents house. No need to offend mom on Christmas.

Today, Noisecreep highlights some of the best hard rock and metal holiday tunes to keep your holiday rocking!

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Nickelback Instagram Parody: Rock 'N' Roll Comedy Gold

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 11:55AM by Noisecreep Staff Comments

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Instagram and Nickelback. Both are ubiquitous in pop culture, although Instagram may be a bit more popular than the hit-making Canadian institution that music lovers love to hate. In this hilariously silly new College Humor parody, Nickelback's hit single "Photograph" is turned into a male-female duet that is used to highlight the fact that most people take Instagram photos of things that are just not worthy of being snapped.

Coffee foam, garden gnomes, fireworks in the sky, a superclose up of my eye! Tell us you haven't seen those show up in the camera rolls of the people you follow on Instagram.

This vid effectively captures the cold, hard fact that a whole lot of nonsense fills your Instagram feed. That is, if you use the photo sharing service and are so hellbent on documenting' peach pie.

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Stone Sour, Papa Roach Tour: Hard Rockers Announce Co-Headline Dates

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 11:20AM by Carlos Ramirez Comments

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Stone Sour and Papa Roach just announced that they will be heading out on a U.S. co-headline tour in January 2013. The two bands are currently out together in Europe, selling out shows together, so this is a no-brainer.

Stone Sour is out in support of House of Gold & Bones Part 1, the first installment of their two album series. House of Gold & Bones Part 2 will be released spring 2013. Papa Roach's current album, The Connection, debuted top 20 on the Billboard Top 200 when it was released earlier this year.

Check out the Stone Sour/Papa Roach tour dates below.

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Dave Grohl Documentary Unveils Trailer, Masters of Reality Return + More News

Posted on Dec 5th 2012 9:00AM by Amy Sciarretto Comments

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Dave Grohl's directorial debut, Sound City, is set to premiere at Sundance. It will follow with a theatrical bow in February of next year. The film is a doc about Sound City, the Van Nuys, Calif. recording studio. Grohl was inspired to make the film when he purchased the Neve 8028 recording console, built in 1972, from the studio. Besides that, his personal connection to Sound City began in 1991 when Nirvana recorded Nevermind there. So he has serious history with the location.

Now, about that console? Well, it was so inspiring to Grohl since it is considered to be the crown jewel of analog recording equipment and has been used to capture such artists as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Guns N' Roses, Fear, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica and more.

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