SUMAC Breaks New Ground With ‘Love in Shadow’
Following their fantastic collaboration with Keiji Haino, heavy post-metal act SUMAC introduces free rock, noise, and improvisational ideas to their sound on Love in Shadow.
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KEN mode Turn Back the Clock with ‘Loved’
Canadian extreme hardcore act KEN mode makes a return to its proper, overwhelming form with their sardonically nihilistic new record, Loved.
Destroy Or Be Destroyed: Alice in Chains Confronts Ghosts, Past on ‘Rainier Fog’
Frontman William DuVall discusses Alice in Chains’ sessions for its first album tracked in Seattle in over 20 years and the emotional and psychological impact of recording on the group’s home turf.
Alice in Chains Revive Their Classic Sound Again on ‘Rainier Fog’
The main issue with Alice in Chains' Rainier Fog is that the band never climbs from the bottom to the top of that mountain to give us all of their range. Still, a solid effort.
Yob Highlight Their Conceptual Vision on ‘Our Raw Heart’
To characterize Our Raw Heart as consistent is not to damn the record with faint praise as Yob's music is as powerful and beautiful as ever.
Agrimonia Offer the Strongest Chapter in Their Post-Metal Vision with ‘Awaken’
Returning five years after their strong Southern Lord debut, Rites of Separation, Agrimonia introduce the strongest chapter in their heavy post-metal vision.
Pepper Keenan Returns to Corrosion of Conformity for ‘No Cross No Crown’
Corrosion of Conformity have written a new record that harks back to their golden Deliverance and Wiseblood days, with the added doom-laden lurches of Keenan's last LP with the band, 2005's In the Arms of God.
YLVA – ‘META’ (album stream) (premiere)
Sludge metal has rarely sounded a visceral and delightfully disorienting as it does coming through the hands of YLVA.
From Recession to Progression: An Interview with Process of Guilt
Process of Guilt's dogged DIY survival during harsh economic times in a country not particularly well-known on a global level for its metal is proof that if you continue to stubbornly follow your passion good things can happen.
Bell Witch: Mirror Reaper
Bell Witch moves the listener with a deathly journey that is often poetic and at times philosophically rich.
Mastodon: Cold Dark Place EP
This EP is essential listening for any Mastodon fans who've followed the band into the 2010's without an excess of griping about what the band used to be.
Low Flying Hawks – “Space Wizard” (video) (premiere) (interview)
Mysterious, Krautrock-influenced sludge merchants team up with acclaimed Mexican film director, members of Melvins for new video.