Posted by Chip McCabe on October 31, 2014
What exactly is in the water up in Portland, Oregon? The sheer volume, not to mention the high quality, of heavy music acts that have been pouring out of an otherwise bucolic, little city has been quite impressive for quite some time now. Is Portland, OR the most “metal” place in North America these days? […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on August 9, 2013
There are certain genres that, as the majority of bands go, there’s not a whole lot to experiment with. Funeral Doom for example may, at first glance, appear to be one of those genres. You play real heavy, you play real slow, you sound depressing as hell and viola! But for any genre within the […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on July 1, 2013
Let us not mince words here. Lycus, hailing from Oakland, CA, are a doom band. If you want to get cute and call them “funeral doom” that would be completely acceptable. But make no mistake that if you were to look up “doom” in Noah Webster’s lasting gift to mankind that a picture of the […]
