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Ghosts of Glaciers Deliver a Powerful, Intelligent Instrumental with "Epigenesis" (premiere)
Colorado trio Ghosts of Glaciers combine the primitive pounding of thrash metal with the intellectual nuances of progressive rock on a new track, culled from the upcoming album, The Greatest Burden.
31 Jul 2019
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Post-Metal Outfit Pelican Returns with More Dark Moods and Inventive Instrumentals
On Nighttime Stories, instrumental quartet Pelican make the most out of working without a singer, proving that some narratives are best built without words.
18 Jul 2019
Music
Rosetta Preps Vinyl Reissue of 'A Determinism of Morality' (album stream + interview)
The beloved 2010 album from Philadelphia intellectual metal masters Rosetta gets a new lease on life. The band's Matt Weed looks back in this exclusive interview and album stream premiere.
03 May 2019
Music
Yob and Near-death Metal Experiences
Yob's Our Raw Heart topped PopMatters Best of Metal 2018 list. Here, Yob's Mike Scheidt meets with neurophilosopher Christopher James Stevens to discuss music and mystical experiences.
16 Jan 2019
Music
SUMAC Breaks New Ground With 'Love in Shadow'
Following their fantastic collaboration with Keiji Haino, heavy post-metal act SUMAC introduces free rock, noise, and improvisational ideas to their sound on Love in Shadow.
21 Sep 2018
Music
A Storm of Light Examines Crumbling Lives, Crumbling World In "Prime Time" (premiere + interview)
Experimental heavy rock outfit a Storm of Light returns with a new video, "Prime Time", ahead of first album in five years, Anthroscene.
14 Sep 2018
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Deafheaven's 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love' Takes the Strengths of Its Predecessors and Refines Them Even Further
Sunbather will forever be Deafheaven's iconic album, but Ordinary Corrupt Human Love might just be their best record.
11 Jul 2018
Music
God Is an Astronaut Takes Listeners on an Introspective Journey via 'Epitaph' (album stream) (premiere)
Irish trio God Is an Astronaut returns with ninth and possibly best album to date with Epitaph, out Friday via Napalm Records.
Jedd Beaudoin
23 Apr 2018
Music
Post-rock Band Lume Explores Grief, Survival on 'Wrung Out' (album stream)
Chicago post-rock trio Lume carries listeners through a long night of the soul on superb new album Wrung Out.
Jedd Beaudoin
19 Apr 2018
Music
Kontinuum Announce New Album With Single That Inspires "Shivers" (premiere)
With nearly a decade of live performances and LPs behind them, Icelandic collective Kontinuum appear poised to release their best work yet.
Jedd Beaudoin
18 Apr 2018
Music
Bound Meditates on Thin Line Between Hope and Resignation Via 'No Beyond' (album stream + interview)
Washington, D.C. quartet Bound issues debut album on 20 April. Founding member talks about the year-long journey toward the record's completion and the events which inspired its nine tracks.
Jedd Beaudoin
16 Apr 2018
Music
Keiji Haino and SUMAC Join Forces for 'American Dollar Bill'
The Japanese rock insurrectionary Keiji Haino and Northwest art metal trio SUMAC improvise über-heavy body music.
23 Feb 2018
Music
Godflesh: Post Self
Almost 30 years after their inception the extreme experimental spearhead act, Godflesh returns with an album that perfectly sums up their sound, and reveals even more about the oblique and elusive core of the band.
15 Dec 2017
Music
Sannhet: So Numb
Without changing their identity, Sannhet travels deep within their core to further progress their unclassifiable sound on So Numb.
22 Aug 2017
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Mouth of the Architect - "Fever Dream" (premiere) + Interview
Hear "Fever Dream" from the upcoming Mouth of the Architect LP, Path of Eight, releasing October 7, as the band takes us through the album in this exclusive interview.
12 Sep 2016
Music
Horseback: Piedmont Apocrypha
Music can rarely get more genuinely personal than this. But when it does, this is what it sounds like
12 May 2014
Music
Beyond the Redshift: Is This the End for Cult of Luna?
Swedish post-metallers bid us farewell. Maybe.
01 May 2014
Music
Pelican: Forever Becoming
Forever Becoming is an apt title for the Chicago-based post-metal outfit Pelican, who despite significant name recognition and years of experience is still struggling to come to its own.
21 Nov 2013
Music
Russian Circles: Memorial
Russian Circles' fifth studio album, Memorial, is the first landmark post-metal release since Isis' Panopticon, the band's greatest achievement, and unquestioningly one of 2013's true artistic masterpieces.
21 Oct 2013
Music
Lento: Anxiety Despair Languish
Unlike many of Lento's post-metal kin, the band doesn't take the epic or expected route. Forgoing the de rigueur and clearly signposted crescendos of many of the band's peers, Anxiety Despair Languish is instead taut.
23 Jan 2013
Music
Amenra: Mass V
Heaving, dynamic lurches, and the promise of shadowy enlightenment spill over on Amenra's latest album, V.
15 Jan 2013
Music
Isis: Temporal
Whether you thought Isis' career ended far too early or at just the right time, Temporal is a nice a going-away gift as could be expected from these post-metal greats.
04 Nov 2012
Music
Faal: The Clouds Are Burning
Life is difficult, and toil and trouble abound, but Faal's argument that it can always get worse is hard to dispute.
06 Sep 2012
Music
Ancestors: In Dreams and Time
Three albums in and Ancestors have produced a tour de force bursting with vitality and songwriting genius. If that all sounds like hyperbole, so be it -- albums of such extraordinary scope demand rhapsodic adoration.
20 Jun 2012
Music
Pelican: Ataraxia/Taraxis
Though it's brief, Ataraxia/Taraxis is a hopeful foreshadowing of better music to come from Pelican.
22 Apr 2012
Music
Alcest: Les Voyages de l'Âme
Alcest's most accessible work to date doesn't sacrifice the brilliant musicianship that the band has demonstrated over their past two recordings. In fact, Les Voyages de l'Âme is equally as powerful as those albums.
25 Jan 2012
Music
Russian Circles: Empros
Empros both defines and expounds upon an already successful musical journey. With this record, Russian Circles have reached their artistic peak masterfully.
01 Nov 2011
Music
Hull: Beyond the Lightless Sky
Hull’s sophomore album is a vastly more imaginative effort, conveying a palpable sense of creative energy that with any luck should see the band getting a lot more attention.
17 Oct 2011
Music
Nadja: Under the Jaguar Sun
Here’s to hoping Nadja pull a Radiohead and emerge jazzily, victoriously; sounding less like a two-hour Aztec sacrifice and more like Agalloch meets Orthodox, while keeping close that stylish, Canadian Aidan Baker dark flair.
02 Nov 2010
Music
Alcest: Écailles de Lune
Stéphane Paut comes closer than ever to perfecting his gorgeous mix of shoegaze and metal on Alcest's second album, Écailles de Lune.
10 May 2010
Music
Red Sparowes: The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer
While the Red Sparowes have seemingly abandoned their fixation on unwieldy, melodramatic song titles, in exchange they’ve upped the musical drama.
06 Apr 2010
Music
Alcest: Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Alcest's Souvenirs d'un autre monde alternates dreamy interludes and withering blasts of sound. Like recent Jesu, this is a shoe-gazing, post-rocking take on metal, if it is metal at all.
27 Nov 2007
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