Track Premiere: The Oxford Coma – ‘Trauma (Maybe I’m Forgetting Something)’

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…

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Track Premiere: Burn “Dead Identity”

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…

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The Colossus of Destiny: A Conversation With the Melvins Movie Director

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…

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Interview with Mark Rudolph, illustrator, cartoonist, metalhead

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…

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Track Premiere: Old Iron – ‘Bogwitch’

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…

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Interview with Cavernlight

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…

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The Top 10 Metal Songs Never Performed Live

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…

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Track Premiere: Blackfinger – ‘When Colors Fade Away’

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…

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Full Album Stream: Dead Woman’s Ditch – “Seo Mere Saetan”

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…

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For Those About to Squawk: Warbeast, Exit Eden, Damn Freaks

We’re getting into the dog days of August, and the releases are heating up… Have you ever wanted a symphonic metal version of the Spice Girls? No? You either?  Napalm…

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