by Bram Teitelman | Oct 3, 2014 | Current Events, News
London’s Telegraph reports that a Bangladeshi man arrested after he volunteered to go to Syria to fight for ISIS was the singer of a death metal band. Asif Adnan is the singer and guitarist of Bangladesh death metal band Jahiliyyah. The band’s name refers...
by Seth Werkheiser | Sep 4, 2014 | News
Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom) has a new band called Sumac, with drummer Nick Yacyshyn from Baptists. On bass, though not a full-time member, bassist Brian Cook (Botch, These Arms are Snakes, Russian Circles) recorded on the upcoming album. “We are pursuing...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 23, 2014 | Current Events, News
While post-metal band Isis broke up four years ago, they’ve been in the news lately. Actually, not the band, but the militant Islamic terrorist group that recently claimed responsibility for beheading American journalist James Foley. And while you might not...
by Matt Brown | Apr 16, 2014 | Crowdfunding, News
If you’ve never heard of a Cleveland, OH band called Craw, you’re not alone; the post-hardcore act hasn’t put out an album since 2002 and the three albums that proceed it have been out of print since the late 90’s. Yet, in their prime, the band...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 7, 2014 | Lists, News
Today Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne made a hypothetical mix tape of bands he used to like. In a column for The AV Club called “I Made You a Mixtape,” the theme Osborne chooses is “bands that were good, but blew it.” The 21st Melvins album, Tres...