Earth have joined up with label mates Wolves in the Throne Room for a week-and-a-half long West Coast tour for this April. The string of dates will also include opening support from instrumentalist Cello performer Lori Goldston, who will also be part of Earth’s live lineup for the tour.
Earth have been finalizing material for their [...]
Chicago’s Lair of the Minotaur’s new album may be called Evil Power, but the sound is more like “raw power.” Combining the ferocity of blackened thrash metal with the grinding style of doom metal, Lair of the Minotaur are really a sound to behold.
Some might see Evil Power as an album that takes queues from [...]
Shrinebuilder today embark on their new US tour, kicking it off at The Casbah in San Diego, California. The band will pound the West Coast all week alongside Neurot brethren A Storm of Light on all shows, and with special appearances by Harvestman (Steve Von Till of Neurosis) on the three Bay Area shows.
Immediately [...]
Saw these guys a couple of months back in Portland and they sounded exactly like on this video, only much…much louder.
Awake in Sleep – Dark Castle from Paul Myers on Vimeo.
Behold one and all, the power of Post Mortem! Despite there being, literally, one Post Mortem in every populated nook that plays some sort of variation of thrash and death metal, none of them are quite like the Massachusetts undergrounders who have created a comeback album after many years of inactivity, albeit with bittersweet consequences. [...]
Noriega is a band I have been waiting to appear on the scene. Combining metalcore and doom metal, Noriega are finally that bridge between the stoner/doom sensation of the last year or two, and the recent past’s indelible presence of metalcore. Ironically though, despite having a very modern image and a metalcore highlight (due in [...]
Remember that band that released an album called Crack the Skye earlier this year? I used to remember them…and then I listened to the debut of Shrinebuilder. Featuring Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Scott “Wino” Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus), Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om) and Dale Crover (Melvins, Fantomas), Shrinebuilder is more of an experience than a [...]
Headed over to Geno’s Friday night in downtown Portland for an evening of doom metal. Every once and awhile I will check out the local scene on the look out for quality regional acts hitting the area when I stumbled upon this show at the local club which is the default location for all things [...]
On one hand, The Sin Committee stick to a bygone era of nu-metal with relatively simple riffs with downtuned riffs and strong bass rhythms, at least initially. The idea of listening to another nu-metal band in 2009 would probably immediately turn off many potential listeners almost immediately, including myself, however, after only a few minutes, [...]
While always holding down the fort as a doom metal band, Kylesa has been a great story of maturity in evolution. On their 2002 self titled debut Kylesa was a rough around the edges sludgy doom metal band heavily influenced by the hardcore scene which was becoming the center of the heavy music world’s attention. [...]
