Chris Rowella
Contributions
Gold - 'Optimist' (Album Premiere)
Beyond mood music, beyond post-[insert genre here], plus liner notes
Freedom Hawk's 'Sunlight' to be Finally Released on Vinyl
The retro rock cult classic is finally available again. Also, tour dates.
Top Albums of 2016, by Chris Rowella
Top picks including sludge, doom, noise rock and the death metal album everyone slept on for no reason at no. 1
Corrosion of Conformity's 'Blind' Turns 25
The album that saw them pivot from hardcore to stonery metalcore would influence a generation of musicians
Skeletonwitch, Iron Reagan and Oathbreaker Live at St. Vitus
Ohio’s black thrashers headlined two souls out nights in Brooklyn
The Watchers - 'Sabbath Highway' (Stream)
Old style riffs with the appropriate amount of cheese
Year of the Cobra - "The Siege" (Video Premiere)
Drum and bass and lots of toughness
Nopes - 'Never Heard of It' (Album Premiere)
What does punk look like in 2016? This.
Altar of Oblivion - 'Barren Grounds' (EP Premiere)
Danish doom kings worship the old gods just the way we like it