by Bram Teitelman | Apr 17, 2013 | New Music
While Kings Destroy have a hardcore background, with two members having logged time in Killing Time, the band traffics in sludgy stoner rock. Their 2010 debut album, And the Rest Will Surely Perish, established them in and around the NYC area, but they’ve...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 15, 2013 | Splits
While information has kind of been out there for a month, Chicago psych/black metal band Nachtmystium are on hiatus. Frontman and founder Blake Judd stated in an interview with Stereogum last month that he’s decided to concentrate on Hate Meditation. Back in...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 18, 2012 | Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxi4P8pAcJQ[/youtube] It’s likely been a while since you’ve thought of Local H, if you even remember them. The Chicago-area duo have been around since 1987, and are probably best known for their song “Bound For...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 10, 2012 | New Music, Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GC3oh1h1s[/youtube] And that’s a good thing. Vancouver’s Bison B.C. are set to release their fourth album, Lovelessness, on October 22. The band lead with “Anxiety Puke/Lovelessness,” a nine-minute slab...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 31, 2012 | Collaborations
Have you heard of Twilight? No, not the movies about sparkly celibate vampires, the black metal supergroup. Already featuring members of Nachtmystium, Isis and The Atlas Moth, they’ve now gotten even more cred, as former Sonic Youth guitarist and vocalist...