by Bram Teitelman | Jul 27, 2015 | Label Moves, News
[youtube]https://youtu.be/952-KAXOQqg[/youtube] Way back in October of last year, San Francisco black metal/shoegaze duo Deafheaven announced that they’d begun work on the follow-up to their sophomore album, Sunbather. And now it’s done, coming in October...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 1, 2015 | News, Tour Diary
Yesterday, the tour between fellow California sludge bands Black Sheep Wall and Colombian Necktie ended. As proud sponsors of the tour, we’ve been bringing you a tour diary from Black Sheep Wall. You can read installments one and two and three with drummer...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 23, 2015 | In The Studio, News
Deafheaven made a lot of black metal purists angry and made more fans of shoegaze think that they might actually like black metal with the release of 2013’s Sunbather. From its pink album cover to selling the font and a blanket of the album cover, they’re...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 10, 2015 | Festivals, News, Touring
We’d already known that Slipknot and Faith No More were playing the Heavy Montreal Festival (aka, the best reason to go to Canada other than the exchange rate). But yesterday, the Fest released the full lineup, and it’s ridiculous. Korn will be performing...
by Metal Insider | Feb 16, 2015 | Columns, Headbangers Brawl
As just about anyone who’s read about music on the Internet knows, websites and publications (ourselves included!) love doing end-of-year top album lists. And while there tend to be certain touch points of universal acclaim – if you wrote a top 10 metal albums list...