Sign them already: Inswarm
Photo by Scott IrvineText by Cosmo Lee If Isis had pursued their early industrial leanings instead of their later atmospheric ones, Inswarm might have resulted. I miss that dirty, Godflesh-inspired sound, and thought it was extinct (with the exception of Hyatari) until I heard Inswarm. This Moment The band has connections to many others. Along […]
Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun
Let me blow ya mind
Sign them already: Embers
The Bay Area’s brightest/darkest new hope
Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness
Unlike most of their counterparts, Burnt by the Sun combined extreme music with extreme politics. This was particularly welcome in the Bush 2 era, when protest of any sort stood tantamount to treason. Though many missed the violent velocities of drummer Dave Witte’s prior acts Discordance Axis and Human Remains, BBTS executed complex songs doused […]
Sun Worship - 'Pale Dawn'
Black metal with less shock, more value
Metal scene report: Australia
Thunder down under
How Fuming Mouth Touched Darkness and Returned With Gold on "Last Day of Sun" (Interview)
Fuming Mouth has certainly succeeded in death metal’s surface level aspects – titanic riffs, dismal subject matter, and so on. However, what really sets them – and all good death metal – apart is their deep and sincere approach to songwriting and sense of melody. It’s a formula that worked for the genre pioneers Death...
Sons of Satan Praise the HM-2
Buzz kill
Woe Have Seen The End (Interview)
Woe songwriter and main man Chris Grigg discusses the intricacies of his latest opus and tackling it on his own in a new interview.
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