Tag: hardcore
Wolves in the Throne Room
Thrice Woven Back on the prowl Release Date: September 21, 2017 Record Label: Artemisia Coming to us some six years after their last full-length metal album (with 2014’s Celestite famously…
Read more »Full Album Stream: Process of Guilt – ‘Black Earth’
While Process of Guilt can be classed as a sludge metal band, that isn’t doing the band’s sound justice. While the bedrock of their new album, Black Earth, is sludge metal, the…
Read more »Label Spotlight: WAR Records
Like much of the extreme music underground, hardcore is thriving right now. With an established old guard of bands in addition to a fertile class of young bands, there are…
Read more »Bob Rock on Metallica: “I didn’t cater to what they were. I catered to what they wanted to do.”
Producer, engineer, and musician Bob Rock (aka Robert Jens Rock) has a storied history. Whether you’ve formed your own opinions (likely) or constructed them after observing his role as producer,…
Read more »The Art of the Deals: On Promoters and Labels
I’m going to be 40 pretty soon. And while it may seem like I’m saying that so that you send me cards filled with money (I am), it’s also to…
Read more »For Those About to Squawk: King Parrot, Evil Invaders, Monarch
What’s up gang? I mean, like, what’s going on? I mean I’m here to tell you about what’s coming up so you people know what’s going on. So Austrailia’s King…
Read more »Demo:listen: Void Tendril
Welcome to Demo:listen, your weekly peek into the future of underground extreme metal. Whether it’s death, black, doom, sludge, grind, thrash, -core, heavy, speed, punk-, stoner, etc., we bring you…
Read more »Track Premiere: Samael – ‘Black Supremacy’
After a six-year gap from their last album, Lux Mundi, Samael are issuing their eleventh album, Hegemony. Though the album continues on the electronic/industrial path Samael have long been on, Hegemony also draws influence from the…
Read more »Track Premiere: Scour – ‘Red’
As far as extreme metal supergroups go, they don’t get much bigger than Scour. Counting among their ranks the infamous Phil Anselmo (ex-Pantera, Down, Superjoint), John Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Derek Engemann (Cattle…
Read more »Bloodstrike’s Holly Wedel on Putting a New Spin on Classic Death Metal
In 2015, Bloodstrike emerged as one of the most exciting and promising new death metal acts with In Death We Rot. The album took the sound pioneered by Swedish titans…
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