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
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