Posted by Chip McCabe on January 29, 2016
Somewhere, deep amid the thorny brambles of the metal world there exists a dimension of pure atmospherics. A place where some of the most talented acts in the metal world spend their days slow-cooking multiple genres in a cauldron of the ethereal. It’s deep within this dark side of the genre that Oakland’s Lycus consistently […]
Posted by Matt Brown on January 27, 2016
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Like last week, the final week of MBN for January involves five new debuts and continues what looks to be a steady stream of albums for the early part of 2016. The really heavy […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on January 15, 2016
After kicking off the year with a hefty release week, things normalize a bit for a January release date. 2016 continues to have a strong start, though, with a number of underground up-and-comers releasing new material today. Check it all out here! Witchcraft, Nucleus (Nuclear Blast) The Swedish doom band is on album number five, and […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on December 11, 2013
As 2013 draws to a close, we’ve been giving the site over to artists to let us know what they’ve been listening to. It’s proven to a diverse year for artists and albums alike. You can check out part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and part 4 here, and part 5 here. However, we also want to […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 4, 2013
It’s December, which means it’s time for that annual rite of passage where everyone attempts to summarize a year’s worth of music into a top ten list. Metal Insider and its contributors will be releasing our lists starting soon, but we’ve also gotten lists from some of the artists themselves. Here’s the first installment, featuring […]
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 […]
