New Hampshire may not be a frequent producer of solid extreme music acts, but there are handful of solid acts – namely Trap Them and Vattnet Viskar – who proudly call the Granite State home. The latter of these two bands is preparing the release of their second album Settler, with a unique source of…
Early last month post-black metal outfit Vattnet Viskar announced their sophomore album, Settler, with few details attached. Since then we’ve received new information in drips and drabs. The artwork you see above is the cover art, and if it looks a bit cheesy and strange and other words not normally associated with…
Being a fan of the post-black metal genre, it’s hard to not be at least tangentially aware of New Hampshire’s Vattnet Viskar. Aside from signing to Century Media and releasing their debut album Sky Swallower in 2013, the group toured with Pallbearer last year and nearly stole the show. This…
Few tours offer as much MOSH as the recent Nails, Xibalba, and Early Graves tour. As usual, our regularly contributing photographer Maclyn Bean (the most technical and speedest photographer ever) attended his local show at Broad Street Ministry in Philadelphia and managed to not get his equipment broken! Photos of…
Somewhere between the massive gritty riffing of sludge and the pissed-off fury of hardcore lies Boston’s Zozobra, a project started in 2006 by Cave In and Old Man Gloom’s Caleb Scofield. Initially concerned with more upbeat atmospheric sludge along the lines of Baroness and Intronaut, the project has since turned…
Coming off the critical success of their new EP Species at War, Finnish grindcore aficionados Rotten Sound have announced a North American headlining tour throughout the month of May.
Start your day with some pissed-off powerviolence from Call Of The Void.
California’s hardcore/grindcore aficionados Nails have a new track available for streaming.
Consider The Secret a secret no longer for myself. This Italian hardcore group deliver grinding hardcore in the same vein as the recently discussed Early Graves, so after my first listen of the title track of their upcoming album it was one of those ‘where have you been all my life!?’…
Glossing over the obvious detail that Early Graves’ upcoming new album Red Horse contains a white horse on the front cover, everything about it just feels right. Goner was going to be hard to beat, but from what we’ve heard already Red Horse looks set to give it a run for it’s money…