It’s time to turn the volume upwards and make things Dead Quiet. If that statement doesn’t make sense to you then you had better get ready...
In 1992, Seattle rock band Alice in Chains released Dirt, which became the band’s defining album and their most commercially successful effort to date. With a...
There’s been a lot happening in the realm of dark, acoustic folk music lately: and following in the footsteps of the likes of King Dude or...
Starting a new chapter in their career, Canterbury band Struck/Down are premiering their new single "Wandering Child" right here.
Japanese trio, Boris continues to promote their just-released new album, NO, and now have also unveiled a dystopian music video for their single, “鏡 -Zerkalo-.” The...
Sean Arsenian, the guitarist and vocalist for the noise rock group The Great Sabatini is also a full-time tattoo artist and co-owner of DFA Tattoos, a...
Every now and then, a record comes along which surprises, stops you in your tracks, and transports you elsewhere. This is one of those albums. Marrowfields...
Dublin, Ireland’s Mael Mórdha gave the world four albums of high concept folk/doom metal but, according to drummer Shane Cahill, the band has essentially been kaput...
Italian heavy noise duo OvO is an underground phenomenon that has been rattling eardrums and smashing preconceptions for twenty years. Their ninth full-length album, Miasma, dropped February...
When it comes to emotional viscera in metal, few genres manage to encapsulate feelings of hopelessness, rage, and self-discovery like doom/sludge. Their dragging, monolithic riffs and...
Wolves Among the Ashes (Century Media), the latest full-length from French extreme metal outfit Svart Crown is a nuanced exercise in balancing varied and often conflicting...
The Thelema-inspired doom of Caronte, with Schammasch’s ritualistic blackened death, rounded off by the no-nonsense black metal assault of Enthroned: what more could any self-respecting Luciferian...
From the deep sea emerges The Osedax, a three-piece sludge metal band ready to deliver a real earworm with their brand new song “White Horse /...
L’héritage du monde, the debut album on Sepulchral Productions from Quebec’s Trépas, is an exhausting experience, but one that invokes sense memory beyond the aural making...
Monterrey, Mexico’s doom rockers The Dark Silence of Death are offering their snappy, driving track “Strange Happenings” as a free mp3 download; give it a listen...
Released via Southern Lord Recordings, Pyroclasts is extremely heavy, bold, and the record that Sunn O))) have been working towards over the past decade.
Along with openers Windhand, post-metal instrumental band Russian Circles’ recent concert at Toronto’s Lee’s Palace was utterly impressive. Their stark lighting effectively amplified the mood and...
Out September 20th via Metal Blade Records, A Dawn To Fear by Cult of Luna commands your focus and repays you with one of the most...
Following on from their previous outing, Mississauga-based chuggernauts Hammerhands have put out another beast of an album; Model Citizen is a black dahlia of sludge and...
On their new Sludgelord Records release, Ocean is More Ancient Than The Mountains, Chicago’s Plague of Carcosa delve deeper into the dark minds of Lovecraftian creatives,...
To discuss their debut record Celestial Mechanics, out now via Century Media, in addition to questions about some of his awesome tattoos, we spoke with Tronos...
A Throne of Ash (Season of Mist
To offer you insight into the writing and recording of their Thrill Jockey Records-released album, Throes, Iowa doom metal trio Aseethee present a special track-by-track rundown...
Russia’s doomy instrumental twosome, Endname deliver some delicious post-metal that’s peppered with electronics, atmospherics, and down-tuned guitars. Check an exclusive sneak preview of Eva, due out...
Due on April 19th via Magnetic Eye Records, Chicago doom/stoner quartet, High Priest have one hell of an end-of-week “Offering” with the debut of their new...
Deafheaven, Baroness and Zeal & Ardor recently delivered some sublime sonic chaos at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall and we loved every minute of it.