The Anatomy Of: Bones of the Earth
Get a look at the musical anatomy that makes up the sound of Bones of The Earth. Featuring Mastodon, Baroness, and more.
AMA (Ask Metal Anything) – March 2020
For years now Eden and I have attempted different strategies for taking our extensive and passionate community of readers, musicians, and people involved in the music industry as a whole and opening up channel... Read More...
Rosetta – Terra Sola
Terra Sola does a neat job of connecting two running threads that I've been thinking about lately. The first is the experience of coming back to bands. I'll be honest with you; I used to be a massive Rosetta b... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 10/4/19
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group&nb... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 1/4/19
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But w... Read More...
DIRGE – Lost Empyrean
For fans of post-anything metal, there was a turning point where we came to dismiss instant gratification. The point where we came to fall in love with the longform sonic journey, the gradual and subtle expanse of musical ideas, or the entrancing (and at times physical) nature of cascading, droning riffing and phantasmal leadwork. Bigger than that, it’s where we abandoned immediacy in exchange for the ambient, the psychedelic, the densely layered, or the ruminating.
Disco Loadout: November 2018 – Pitchshifter, Earthtone9, Boss Keloid & More
Now that's more like it. After a couple of uncommonly lean months, my gig diary was back up to fighting weight in November, and I saw around thirty bands (some of them twice, but we'll get to that), including s... Read More...
RANGES’ Trio of New Items Bring The Ascensionist to Its Peak
I first became acquainted with the Bozeman, MT post-rock band RANGES what seems like ages ago, though somehow it was only 2015. They were a virtually unknown band that had just caught the attention of a small c... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: SOM Answer Your “Prayers” With New Track
Today we are premiering "Prayers," a new track from the upcoming debut record by shoegazing post-metal act SOM, a supergroup of sorts comprised of three underrated figures who have had their hands in more than ... Read More...
Disco Loadout: October 2018 – Euroblast Special
The Load In
The gig drought continues. Admittedly, I was out of the country (again) for a good chunk of the month and, typically, almost everything I wanted to see in October happened whilst I was away. I was ... Read More...