Over the past weeks, quite a few great releases floating around in the realm of sludge, stoner, drone and doom have drifted my way. So here they are all in one place for your listening pleasure. Enjoy the rattling of your own bones…. 1. PENDULOUS – A Palpable Sense of Love &

With Author and Punisher‘s most recent album Melk En Honing, the industrial-strength goliath melding machines with their maker, Tristan Shone, continue to broaden the limits of where this project’s sound can go. I caught up with Tristan before he left for a headlining tour (dates below) to talk about the new

There’s little pleasure to be had interviewing artists in the spotlight. The most pressing questions have already been asked, and the interesting answers have already been given. The fun is to be found by interviewing those artists in the shadows; the bastions of the avant-garde and the unsung heroes of

Every year, AMPLIFEST keeps getting better. Last year, our correspondent José Carlos Santos left us with his sense of yearning for this year’s edition, and when we look at the lineup – featuring AMENRA, ALTAR OF PLAGUES, CONVERGE, FULL OF HELL and WIEGEDOOD amongst many others – we can see

Yesterday, I got really drunk with my roommate and we had a fabulous time. While intoxicated, we discussed how various hardcore and punk bands have recently developed bro-tastic audiences, and at one point my roommate even showed his ass to some women who claimed it was their birthday and wanted

CALLING ALL PUNX!!!! Once again the UK has proven that its current state of punk is full of pleasant surprises that are both musically vicious as well as intriguing. No Form, like many other punk/hardcore acts from the United Kingdom, is an absolute onslaught of sound that will make for