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Causal ReasonsReversal Self-Released2001 “Sounds like ____” is tricky business. Really, it’s best (though perhaps not for commercial purposes) to sound unique. But since that’s basically impossible, given today’s cultural forces (perhaps someone in some media-deprived locale could hit upon playing heavy metal, but I highly, highly doubt it), most musicians hope to remind listeners of […]

by Cosmo Lee Cynic‘s Focus turned 15 yesterday. Plenty of ink has been spilled on it, so I need not discuss its importance, except to point out that without it there would be no Alarum, Behold…The Arctopus, Between the Buried and Me, Intronaut, Spiral Architect, and many other bands today. I don’t remember when I […]

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2FduXYJc9VA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/1UDQYXbu6aE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0 Thankfully the Saints won the Super Bowl. Otherwise, I would have had to look for metal songs about colts. Speaking of Armored Saint, have you heard the preview track, “Left Hook from Right Field,” from their new album La Raza (out March 16 on Metal Blade)? You can stream it here. To be honest, […]

Deafheaven also released a new video for their Chelsea Wolfe collab ”Night People.”

The soundtrack for last year’s Masters of Horror series on Showtime seemed like a good idea – take new and unreleased songs from the hottest metal/metalcore/screamo/emo bands of the moment, spread the goods across two discs, and wrap the whole thing in nice packaging. So I picked up the soundtrack and put it into my […]

Whenver electronic/pop music writer Simon Reynolds weighs in on metal, it’s always interesting. I’ve been chewing on a recent post of his: “metal has just swallowed whole goth (especially 4AD goth-lite), industrial, post-rock, shoegaze, techno, isolationism, folk….to the point where what defines metal as metal these days is nothing sonic but really just the bombastic […]