Torche's last full-length outing, 2012's Harmonicraft, was an absolute beast, but since then, they've stepped up their game yet another level on 7-inch one-offs like the fucking ridiculous…   Read Story »

With Harmonicraft, Torche made one of the year's best albums -- had it not been on Stereogum's Top 50, where it plainly deserved to be, it absolutely would have been included on our list of the…   Read Story »

This was an amazing week for videos, but not a great week for videos with anything in common with each other. Here's the only narrative I thread I can pull from the five videos below: Two of them are…   Read Story »

Torche are simply not the sort of metal band to put magical elves and ogres in their music videos. So when the glowy-eyed beasties do show up in their new clip for the soaringly catchy dude-metal…   Read Story »

It's the last week of April, and so it is time for a look back at the month's best free MP3s that also happen to work well as a single, sequenced mix. This zip file finds the common ground between…   Read Story »

Name: Torche Progress Report: Steve Brooks talks about the band’s new album Harmonicraft. Sludge-pop metalheads Torche are having a busy 2012. Not only did the band make waves by having a bat…   Read Story »

The underground metal landscape is a rocky and striated one, full of sub-sections and micro-scenes, so it's hard to make any sweeping generalizations about it. But here's one: Over the last 20 years…   Read Story »

The great Floridian riff-rockers Torche will release their new album Harmonicraft later this month, and it absolutely slays. We've already posted the great leadoff track "Kicking." And today, we've…   Read Story »

Thundering Florida riff-monsters Torche are getting ready to release the new album Harmonicraft, and if first single "Kicking" is any indication, it's going to be an absolute hellbeast of an LP.…   Read Story »

Underground metal is generally a willfully insular world, but anthemic Florida stompers Torche don't care about any of that. Their surging stomp is as much Superchunk as it is Slayer, and they cover…   Read Story »