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Noisecreep is a hard rock and heavy metal music news and media website based in the United States. It focuses on music news and interviews, with an emphasis on lesser-known hard rock and heavy metal bands.
Noisecreep was created by AOL Music in March 2009. It was the fourth genre-specific music website owned by AOL at the time of its launch.
AOL owned three other genre-specific music websites alongside Noisecreep: Spinner for rock, TheBoot for country music, and TheBoomBox for hip hop. All were part of AOL's MediaGlow publishing division.
The Creep Show is a video podcast produced by Noisecreep that features interviews with various metal bands. It was one of the site's primary content formats alongside written music news and interviews.
AOL shut down Noisecreep on the 26th of April 2013, as part of a broader closure of several online music news properties under AOL Music.
Townsquare Media purchased Noisecreep, along with The Boot and The Boombox, from AOL on the 2nd of June 2013. The sale came roughly six weeks after AOL's initial shutdown announcement.