Bringing “the heavy” in new and interesting ways is tough, but Texas duo Pinkish Black have a way of making it sound easy. Frighteningly dark and drenched in desperation, they evoke everything from the more obvious horror-tinged vibes to ephemeral, unsettling tension. They’re never really heavy in the sense of…
There are few bands who can drastically alter the character and quality of their sound mid-stream and pull it off. It’s a huge risk that can alienate your fanbase and utterly destroy any momentum or success you had built to this point. Thankfully for Georgia post-rock group Maserati, that drastic evolution in their…
Relapse Records has come to be one of my all-time favorite record labels, but I always did wish that they would repress much of their back catalog to vinyl. Lately, they’ve made quite the effort to do just that: Mastodon’s Leviathan was quietly added to the Relapse webstore in a…
To be completely honest, I had no idea that Municipal Waste were working on a new album. However it seems the Waste will release The Fatal Flesh: Waste In Space as early as April through Nuclear Blast and while I wasn’t a huge fan of the ‘mature’ sound of Massive…
For some sad, sad reason, I had never heard of Zombi until moments before drafting this post; I’m listening to some of their stuff as I’m typing and I’m being blown away. How a spacey prog-rock duo (comprised of a bassist and drummer who both tinker away at synths) signed…
01. BARONESS – “Isak” 02. GENGHIS TRON – “I Wont Come Back Alive” 03. TOMBS – “Gossamer” 04. COALESCE – “Wild Ox Moan” 05. THE END – “The Never Ever Aftermath” 06. BURIED INSIDE – “V” 07. ZOMBI – “Orion” 08. BURNT BY THE SUN – “Inner Station” 09. THE…
