Savannah, Georgia sludge-metal warriors Kylesa started out as a slobbering two-drummer beast of a band, and they're still that. But on their last two albums, they've been injecting their ferocious…   Read Story »

Yesterday, Kylesa topped our list of the month's best new metal, and today, they close out April with the release of a new track from the forthcoming Ultraviolet, "We're Taking This." Philip Cope is…   Read Story »

Metal in 2013 will to some extent be defined by two stories that made their debuts in April, one of which was included on our list of the month's best songs, the other which was not but deserves to…   Read Story »

I just spent a few hundred words discussing the ways in which Ghost B.C. are mislabeled "metal," but you could say the same thing about Kylesa at this point, too. Not that the Kylesa sound anything…   Read Story »

The great Savannah, Georgia metal maulers Kylesa -- easily my favorite metal band in the world over the last few years -- have a new album called Ultraviolet coming in a couple of months, and they've…   Read Story »

Kylesa's excellent 2010 album Spiral Shadow pushed the Georgian metal band's boundaries into something else entirely -- namely, early-'90s alternative rock. That may sound like a slight but it's not…   Read Story »

Pitchfork Fest's final day was a scorcher. We're still recovering, but our tireless photog Graeme Flegenheimer braved the heat to deliver pics of Ariel Pink, Baths, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, How To Dress…   Read Story »

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 »

If you've paid attention, you know where I stand on Kylesa's fifth album (and 2010 best of contender) Spiral Shadow. It's an album that works best within its own snowballing context, so take a listen…   Read Story »

I posted Kylesa's "Tired Climb" at the beginning of last month, reiterating the Built To Spill influence and overall excellence of the longstanding Savannah psychedelic sludge metal quintet's fifth…   Read Story »