by Metal Insider | Nov 6, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
The desert sands are harsh. They are sharp and show no mercy to anything occupying space around them. Imagine lying among the billions of grains, hot to the touch under the burning desert sun. Imagine sinking down, slowly drifting down and down as the weight of the...
by Metal Insider | Sep 18, 2015 | New & Noteworthy, New Music, News
The wave of excellent release weeks continues today with a jam-packed schedule that will have your ears begging for the music to never stop. Read on for what may be one of the busiest weeks of the entire year! Shinedown, Threat to Survival (Atlantic) Album...
by Metal Insider | Sep 11, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Labeling something “atmospheric” has become, over the last two decades, a favorite device of metal music writers and bloggers alike. Everything with a twinge of doom, with a snifter of black metal, with pinch of post-metal bombast gets the...
by Metal Insider | Jul 31, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
What do you get when you take two Molotov cocktails built out of cheap beer and whiskey bottles, thrown out of an unmarked van barreling down a dusty old highway at about 100 miles per hour? You get the split release from two doom metal/stoner rock/sludge acts about...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 28, 2015 | Art, News
Deafheaven got so much attention over the cover of their last album, 2013’s Sunbather, that you’d almost think there wasn’t music attached to it. A pink background with the album title written in a cool font, it was a pretty iconic look, but given...