It may not be $789 billion, but newly employed as of today, I’ve already begun to help the struggling US economy by spending the money I haven’t yet started making. In my regular eBay carousing, I stumbled across two earthlings? Man’s Ruin promos (one for Human Beans and one for the self-titled) with the apparently […]
YOB won’t actually hit all four corners of the US on their upcoming coast-to-coast tour, but they’re not far off. After starting out in their native Pacific Northwest, they’ll swing through the Midwest, loop up northeast to go south along the East Coast, then turn west and circle back out across to Southern California, finishing […]
Some of the best heavy rock records of all time were released through Man’s Ruin Records. We’re talking about pivotal, genre-defining releases that continue to resonate some 20-plus years later, which in rock and roll time is an eternity. Some bands are still active and contributing, and some have left it behind, but in light […]
No question that by now High on Fire are a known quantity. For over 20 years, they’ve become not just a staple band of the heavy underground, but of heavy metal in general. To wit, they won a Grammy. One is hard-pressed to think of something that qualifies as “mainstream acceptance” more than that, short […]
Pennsylvania trio Boozewa release their new EP, Developing Good Health, on Nov. 26. Nice, right? Sure. That’s what I like to think of as a safe-bet-good-time. The lockdown-formed trio based in Coatesville (about 45 minutes west of Philly) started this year off by releasing the 90-second instrumental track “Farm Witch (Reprise).” It was the first […]
Neither Mat McNerney nor Kimmo Helén has anything to prove in terms of atmosphere building. The two are bandmates in Hexvessel and have a number of other projects going at any given moment, so a film soundtrack feels like an organic-enough extension of what they’ve done in the past to make sense. You’ll note the […]
Many bands, one Primordial. Going on nine records deep into a career that in 2018 hits 25 years since the release of their first demo, the Dublin-based metallers are one of a kind. Over their time, they’ve transcended black metal, pagan metal, Celtic metal, doom and however many other subgenres on their way to defining and […]
I’ve applied this kind of standard before, I know, but the truth is there are two kinds of people who aren’t going to be down with Eternal Elysium reissuing a fully remixed and remastered version of their 2005 album, Searching Low and High, to kick off Robustfellow‘s new venture, the Robust Relics Series. You know those kinds of people? […]
