Zeal and Ardor: meet the black metal bluesman who brands his fans
The musician’s merch table is, to most people, the place where you buy T-shirts, albums and ephemera. At a big arena show there might be grotesquely overpriced satin jackets, or other such tat. The...
View ArticleLiving up to their metal
When you’re Gojira, one of the metal world’s most revered bands for their unsparing brutal brand of death, groove and experimental metal, there’s certainly a lot of pressure to prove yourself. The band...
View ArticleMastodon, Gojira review: Wild, woolly and very loud
first published at 2:03pm Mastodon/Gojira Luna Park Big Top, March 26 ★★★½ Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds. The Church of Metal is a broad one, and there are some shared themes between touring partners...
View ArticleAlbum Of The Week: Jesus Piece Only Self
Hardcore, as originally conceived, was a singles genre. Bands wrote songs short enough that they could fit six or eight of them on one 7″, compressing their ideas into tiny and potent bursts of rage....
View ArticleMorbid Angel's 'Covenant': How the Band's Major Label Debut Raised the Bar...
In 1992, music-industry legend Irving Azoff went out for ice cream with Gunter Ford, manager of the Florida death-metal band Morbid Angel, to discuss a possible signing. "The actual negotiations took...
View ArticleToner Rock’s Vanguard wakes up after two decades
‘The Sciences’ is another masterpiece from Sleep. The six songs on the album last 53 minutes; but, more important, it’s an album you can like instantly even without the aid of a bong For a second or...
View ArticleHARTMAN: ‘Freedom’s Goblin’ is long, worth the listen
Prolific 30-year-old California garage rock singer-songwriter Ty Segall released his 10th studio album, “Freedom’s Goblin,” on Jan. 26. The album boasts a daunting 19 tracks, all of which are unique in...
View ArticleThe Black Market: The Month In Metal – May 2017
We usually kick off the Black Market with one of my standard 8,000-word screeds about whatever happened to irritate me during the preceding four weeks, but here’s the deal: I got totally reamed by...
View ArticleSOUND 'ROUND: In celebration of the dark arts
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS — GOTHS (MERGE) Unless your name is Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking or Paul Allen, odds are John Darnille is smarter than you. Like the good English major he was at an...
View ArticleAlbum Reviews: The Center State, Moosebite
Two local bands recently have released new work. Here’s a look. The Center State “Wilderness” There’s a choice when it comes to follow-ups in folk music — either continue making well-crafted, acoustic...
View ArticleConjurer – Mire: Exclusive Album Stream
Conjurer have been whipping up a frenzy in venues up and down the UK with their intoxicating brew of extreme metal styles since February 2015. Their 2016 EP I was an incredibly promising amalgam of...
View ArticleHeavy Metal Could Use a Few More Acts Like BABYMETAL
Heavy Metal Could Use a Few More Acts Like BABYMETAL Cory Garcia | May 14, 2018 | 6:43am Facebook Twitter email Print Article AA BABYMETAL, Skyharbor Revention Music Center May 13, 2K18 This show...
View ArticleGojira Tease Emotional New LP With Disturbing 'Stranded' Video
French progressive-metal veterans Gojira plunge into a cult-like atmosphere with their disturbing video for "Stranded." The dynamic single highlights the quartet's new LP, Magma, out June 17th via...
View ArticleREVIEW: ‘Legend of the Seagullmen’ sends listeners on psychedelic pirate...
Supergroup Legend of the Seagullmen released their self-titled debut album on Feb. 9, and the expectations were high. The supergroup is made up of highly experienced musicians and artists like Brent...
View ArticleListen to Zeal & Ardor's 'Devil Is Fine' Album: Exclusive
Gospel has roots in the spirituals that North American slaves sang while they toiled on plantations and as they escaped along the Underground Railroad. Although the relationship between Christianity...
View ArticleOpinion | Metal for non-metalheads
Deafheaven meshes the dark sounds of extreme metal with the euphoric brightness of shoe-gaze Would a black metal band pick a quote from a Graham Greene novel for the title of their album? Well, if that...
View ArticleThe Deftones sell out the Cotillion in Wichita
On May 25th, 2016, Code Orange warmed up the crowd at Wichita's Cotillion. Code Orange formed in Pennsylvania in 2008. Their sound is a doom style hardcore American punk. The hard core steady beat of...
View ArticleThe Black Market: The Month In Metal – October 2016
As usual, we’ve got an avalanche of worthy metal to discuss this month. Before we get to it, I want to take a crack at addressing one of the most frequent questions/complaints we get from readers: “I...
View ArticleZeal & Ardor – Devil is Fine: Album Stream
There is a gross falsehood proliferated by those whose horizons stretch no further than the end of their nose. The fallacy is that all modern music is simply repetitions of ideas and concepts from...
View ArticleCD review: DevilDriver return in brutal form with Trust No One
California death-groove thrashers, DevilDriver, return this month with perhaps the band’s strongest effort since 2009’s Pray for Villains. Trust No One is the group’s seventh studio effort, and the...
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