Brandon "Show No Mercy" Stosuy highlights the best new metal music whenever he damn well pleases.
Jan 18th, 2011 18 Comments
A lot's changed in American black metal since Krallice formed three years ago. A lot's changed for Krallice, too. Strange it's only been three years -- feels like they've always been around. Maybe… Read Story »
Jan 14th, 2011 1 Comment
Yakuza vocalist/saxophonist Bruce Lamont's a master collaborator (see Nachtmystium, Locrian, Sigh, Minsk, Brutal Truth, etc.) and records regularly with a number of projects (Bloodiest, Circle Of… Read Story »
Jan 13th, 2011 4 Comments
It could be this morning's KEN mode and Trap Them listening sessions talking, but pair those knockout efforts with bluesy, sludgy Louisville trio Young Widows' In and Out of Youth and Lightness and… Read Story »
Jan 6th, 2011 9 Comments
Electric Wizard's Black Masses landed at No. 27 on my Top 50 Metal Albums Of 2010. It's the longtime Sabbath, Satan, and Lovecraft-nodding dark psychedelic UK doom quartet's seventh album, the… Read Story »
Dec 21st, 2010 64 Comments
Clichés be damned -- this really was a good year for metal. I had a harder time organizing a Top 10 in 2010 than ever before. Ditto the Top 20. It was such a good year that I went overboard and… Read Story »
Dec 6th, 2010 7 Comments
French (and Finnish, Japanse, etc.) avant black metal group Deathspell Omega's fifth full-length Paracletus is their most rabid -- 49 minutes of layered, technical, violent black metal. It opens in… Read Story »
Dec 6th, 2010 1 Comment
Unless Agalloch give me a call, I'm taking a break from organizing Haunting The Chapel shows for a few months -- after the Swans @ Masonic Temple sell out, freezing Halloween event with Krieg and… Read Story »
Dec 1st, 2010 7 Comments
This is not the longtime (and awesome) Japanese psych band, Ghost. It's the newish (and awesome) Swedish band, Ghost. Instead of the tree-climbing acid folk and Kraut leanings of the elder crew, we… Read Story »
Nov 30th, 2010 37 Comments
People had a lot to say about Decibel's Top 40 Of 2009. I think this year's list is even more worthy of a debate. As mentioned in the past, I'm a fan of the magazine -- besides the New Yorker, The… Read Story »
Nov 23rd, 2010 Comment
I interviewed the main members of the Haugesund, Norway noise-rock group Årabrot a few years ago in Trondheim, during the same trip I met up with old Varg pal Snorre Ruch. We spoke in some kind of… Read Story »
