The official date of this weekend's Haunting The Chapel/BrooklynVegan Krieg/woe show was Saturday, 10/30, but we started the Mischief Night/Halloween event after midnight to make sure the East Coast…   Read Story »

A couple of months ago I "tweeted" about woe's excellent Quietly, Undramatically "sound[ing] like what black metal from Philly should sound like," i.e. rough, dirty, dangerous, ballsy, no-bullshit.…   Read Story »

In March 2009, as part of my now defunct Show No Mercy series, I put on a show with Krieg, woe, Liturgy, and Malkuth at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. And it fucking snowed. A lot. Krieg doesn't play…   Read Story »

American black metal's shifted radically over the past few years -- in both mainstream perception/acceptance and via a more expansive set of underground aesthetics and a more diverse execution. Since…   Read Story »

A lot's changed since the last Twilight album. For starters, there are those pesky teenage vampire movies of the same name. I asked new Twilight member Stavros about them a few months ago: "This is a…   Read Story »

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 »