Cryptopsy vocalist Matt McGachy exclusively reveals that the end is in sight for one of the best technical death-metal bands of all time. The reason for the retirement is practical: Flo Mounier, one of metal’s most revered drummers, can’t hammer his percussion kit like a whirling dervish forever. Read my New Noise interview with McGachy for more on the unexpected development, as well as the band’s recent signing to Season of Mist.
Times are tough for young bands these days, to put it mildly. Go to New Noise for some invaluable advice that KEN mode, Cloud Rat, Deaf Club and Undeath told me to tell you.
My series on how bands can break through without breaking the bank continues with clever, resourceful and amusing advice from rad bands including Deafheaven, Whores, Elder and Intronaut. Go to New Noise and get schooled.
Go to New Noise to read my live review, previously published on MTV News’ now-shuttered website, of Shellac’s caustic concert at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on January 28, 2001.
For the sake of good measure and posterity, here’s an email that largely media-averse Shellac guitarist/vocalist Steve Albini sent me before his deeply sad passing on May 7:
“I’d be happy to talk to you. I’m traveling at the moment but I’ll be back on May 6th. I can do a conversation any morning prior to my normal sessions starting at 10 am (Central) or I can answer questions by email, where I will likely be more eloquent.”
The Bad Penny, named after one of Albini’s creations, already misses him more sorely than words can express.
For their 10th album overall and first in five years, Omaha indie-rock stalwarts Cursive didn’t opt to release Devourer through their own label, 15 Passenger – or Omaha-based Saddle Creek Records, for that matter – but rather Run for Cover Records. Read the full story in Music Connection‘s print edition or on its website.
Check out my new series on New Noise in which veteran musicians offer advice to young and financially struggling bands on how to tour without breaking the bank. … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Sigh and Black Anvil divulge their money-saving methods in the first installment.
With the health of Dennis Lyxzén unclear after he apparently suffered a devastating heart attack, we send our best wishes to him—and bring you a previously unreleased interview with Lyxzén from November 2019. Go to New Noise‘s website to read our conversation, during which Refused’s main man shares how he envisions the shape of the world to come.
New Wave of Swedish Melodic Death Metal entry Kvaen succeed throughout the entirety of The Formless Fire, even in its weak spots, as the band’s passion for writing and performing stellar songs trumps all else. Fresh blood doesn’t get more bloodthirsty than this. Go to New Noise or click below for my full review.
We left virtually no stone unturned with Lindberg, a hyper-literate social studies teacher who is far more obsessed with the magical realism of authors like Jorge Luis Borges and the philosophy of pessimism espoused by Eugene Thatcher than overexposed occultists like Aleister Crowley. Enjoy one of the headier, epic interviews with one of the most crucial members of not just MDM but of heavy metal on the whole in the last 30 years, via New Noise.
As everyone’s favorite “three-piece grindpunk psychonaut unit” (their words, not ours) head out for another tour, go to New Noise for some previously unpublished thoughts about music festivals they shared with me during a conversation last year.
The Bad Penny (beta) 