noise

Is live music back? For now, and hopefully for much longer than that. Check out photos and a review of Portland experimental metal duo Wizard Rifle's stop in Chicago on their tour (they've got two upcoming dates supporting The Sword in New York).

Dutch doom/noise pioneers Farer's debut album "Monad" is due for a reissue via Tartarus Records later this month—watch a surreal video for a track from it.

Vessel of Iniquity multi-instrumentalist A. White gets in touch with his doomed past and brings it to a chaotic future on this project's newest album.

Walk the anxious streets of this electronica/noise/drone Australian duo's industrial soundscape with our early premiere of their debut album.

Stream the debut album from black/post-metal/noise collective EDEN now ahead of its release.

Looking for a way to completely separate from reality? Here's four albums released this year that construct alternate realities, operate on different wavelengths, and generally achieve total disconnection.

Watch a feverish visualization for a song off the industrial and black-metal-tinged noise project's debut full-length "Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges."

"Rites" dabbles in black metal, sludge, and more to enrich its ingenious tapestry of experimental noise; stream the whole album now and check out an interview with the band.

The dungeon synth overlord, a ritualized industrial black metal troupe, and power ambient duo cast spells on Reggie's Rock Club this past January 25th.

We unveil Chicago-based trio Den's second full-length "Iron Desert," a work culminating nearly a decade's worth of heady and noisy doom for your soul.