Baroness Embraces Both Limitations and Limitless Creativity on "Stone" (Interview with John Baizley and Sebastian Thomson)
Baroness return with their follow-up to 2019’s Gold & Grey with Stone; an album much more simplistic by design when compared to the grandiosity of its predecessor. Recorded in a country home in the middle of Pennsylvania during Covid isolation, this record is the sum of its million little pieces, whether that be stick clicks,...
Oblivion Castle Explores Dark Mysteries On "Witch's Lament in the Moonlight"
As Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms have no doubt already told you, Olivia Rodrigo released GUTS last Friday. What they haven’t communicated is that another album by a 20-year-old woman whose talent far exceeds her years comes out today–Oblivion Castle’s Witch’s Lament in the Moonlight. It’s the most expansive of V.C.H.’s releases under...
A Double Dose of Hell: Vicious Blade and Blasted Heath Share Two Tracks from Upcoming Four-Way Compilation
Wise Blood Records is back once again with a new four-way split: Faster Than The Devil 2 is a slightly-renamed sequel to Faster Than the Fucking Devil that pays more respect to algorithms, but not your neck. Faster Than The Devil 2 showcases four bands this time around: Pittsburgh’s Vicious Blade, Indianapolis’ Blasted Heath, New...