Back in May, Chapel Hill, NC's Horseback released one of the year's most rewarding albums, Half Blood, which blends ambient black metal with rootsy Americana to chilling and remarkable results. Their…   Read Story »

Chicago-based avant-garde drone trio Locrian do fine work on their own (check out their excellent 2012 release The Clearing/The Final Epoch), but they're still probably best-known for their…   Read Story »

Chicago's Locrian are probably best known for their collaborations with Horseback and Mammifer, but the now-trio of André Foisy, Terence Hannum, and Steven Hess have released much excellent music on…   Read Story »

"Elevations And Depths" is the 10+ minute track that ends adventurous Chicago blackened noisemakers Locrian's The Crystal World, one of my favorite albums of 2010 (and one of two great records they…   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 »

Appropriately, and by design, the December edition of our Monthly Mix is the iciest. In the comments of the last installment Scott joked about me doing an "all black metal" mix, but as you'll notice…   Read Story »

I woke up early Thursday to a message from Sasha Grey titled "Sleazy Passed." She'd sent it at 5:30 AM and said, among other things, "Now I know how people felt when MJ died ... I think." A certain…   Read Story »

Over the past few months Locrian have quietly released two of 2010's best albums. They're not a quiet band, but the project of André Foisy and Terence Hannum -- which expands and contracts…   Read Story »

Locrian's Territories ends with the torrentially uplifting "The Columnless Arcade." The Chicago duo of André Foisy and Terence Hannum still create plenty of dark, crumbling, murky washes and…   Read Story »