Pyrolatrous (feat. mems. Krallice, Hull) Returns With Riffs Galore (Early Track Debut)
Brooklyn stays busy. I mean, there are so many bands and it’s all the same five people (or so). In fact, featuring members of Anicon, Krallice, and all the other bands Lev Weinstein is in (like Woe sometimes), Pyrolatrous returns after a decent length slumber to remind people that, at one point, New York was...
Hippie Death Cult Coalesce Maniacal Doom into a "Red Giant" (Early Track Stream)
The uncommon appeal of Hippie Death Cult is, to my ears, that they play stoner rock like it’s something entirely different. That sounds nonsensical, but the Portland trio use the sounds, textures, and overall atmosphere of stoner rock as a testbed for extraordinary, sublime strangeness that ties back to their genre inclinations while becoming something...
"Andermans Mijne," or, How Laster Left Black Metal (Review)
Turning one’s back on black metal, either temporarily or permanently, is almost as integral to the genre now as corpse paint. Bullet belt dudes in bands like Aura Noir will happily play spindly avant-rock in Ved Buens Ende or Virus one moment then go back to blackened thrash like it never happened. Or you can...