Tag: metal

The Oxford Coma — grunge rockers who take plenty of influence from psychedelic and progressive rock/metal — recorded their latest full-length, called Everything Out of Tune, with legendary producer Steve Albini. While…

From essentially the first frenzied notes of the band’s incendiary 2015 Black N’ Blue Bowl comeback show… …dreams of a more lasting, substantial Burn reunion gripped the imaginations of no…

Filmmaker Bob Hannam set out to cover legendary sludge group Melvins. The end result is The Colossus of Destiny: A Melvins Tale, a lengthy, comprehensive documentary that spans the group’s three-and-a-half…

To commemorate the release of his latest metal tribute book Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest, enjoy this chat we had with Mark Rudolph regarding, among other things, the…

Seattle doomsayers and recent Good to Die Records signees Old Iron bring the low end on their latest effort, Lupus Metallorum. The trio balance their rumbling bass and pounding drums with…

Cavernlight play emotionally important music.  It isn’t flashy, like thrash or death metal, but it crackles with personal darkness that envelopes the listener.  Cavernlight wring slow tension from their instruments…

Heavy metal is a live art form. The genre made its greatest mark on pop culture when the uppermost earners in the metal circuit were huge live draws–and many of…

With such an evocative opening line as “Let us now pretend I’m already dead,” delivered by the rich and sonorous voice of Eric Wagner, you’ll have no choice but to…

UK label Third I Rex has made itself home to a number of unique bands, not least of which is Dead Woman’s Ditch. A unique combination of doom and sludge metal with elements of…