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 ... Read More...
Most music nerds can name at least one instance where an album stopped them dead in their tracks. You know the feeling. Those moments when the mind slowly pushes out all other thoughts and daily duties that regularly clutter the brain in order to make ample room for complete and total fixation on one incredible piece of music. There’s no multi-tasking in this space, no working on our various outside projects with music happily and quietly occupying the background. Instead, the music muscles its way front and center. It is music at its most alive, vibrant, and commanding of our full attention. In those distinctly transcendent moments, the music is everything.
Whether you call them prog, melodic death metal, or Tiberian ass-bastard folk (an inside-joke that they'll probably never live down), Cormorant can be summed up as just amazing. Their 2009 album Metazoa mad... Read More...
The discovery of a new band is always exciting. Will it be something you've heard countless times? An experience that leaves a bad taste in your mouth? Or is it a treat from which you cannot stop consumi... Read More...
Spawning from the bay area, the band Cormorant broke forth into the metal scene by creating two unique releases titled The Last Tree (an EP) and Metazoa. With a fusion of talent, diverse influences, minds, an... Read More...