Every year I'm tempted to -- and sometimes do -- say "this has been a great year for metal." It's a toss-away idea: If you consume the genre obsessively, every year seems sort of great, the chaff…   Read Story »

On Friday longtime favorites Krallice played to a very packed Union Pool, along with the duo Orphan and fellow NYC black metal crews Malkuth and Liturgy. I'd just put on a Halloween show with…   Read Story »

As you might have concluded after hearing its 11-minute title track "Dimensional Bleedthrough," Krallice's second full-length takes a long time to unpack and absorb. The collection's least knotty…   Read Story »

Last summer a friend and I organized an intentionally below-the-radar show with New York's Krallice, the Seattle duo Inquisition and the McKinney, Texas quartet Dagon: It was supposed to offer a…   Read Story »

I'm not the only one at Stereogum who goes out to see live music, but I'm the one who goes out to see the most live music. And then I'm the one who sits around anally cataloging and indexing it in…   Read Story »