Gruesome’s new rip-roaring record, Silent Echoes, so thoroughly beats the listener into submission that Merriam-Webster might have to devise a term far more potent than “bludgeoning,” “battering” or “abusively punishing.” Read my review of the record courtesy of Post-Trash.
Feast your eyes and ears on brand-new post-groove metal newcomers Noumenia in their first-ever interview, which I recently conducted with the entire band after its signing to Eclipse Records. The story is featured in the July issue of Music Connection and is also available online here.
Read my review of Laura Jane Grace & In the Trauma Tropes’ new record, Adventure Club, in the July issue of Music Connection or on its website.
Malevolence are a rare metal quintet that have four of its five founding members still in the group. Thanks to their deep friendships with one another, the band born in Sheffield, United Kingdom, have the gift of an underlying groundwork of trust that eludes the majority of bands, regardless of genre. Read my cover story on Malevolence in the latest issue of New Noise, or check out the feature online here.
Rather than replicate the early sound of their ’90s-era triumph, Fixation on a Co-Worker, Deadguy opts for hooks, guitar texture and a throwback production sound that digs deep on their first studio record in three decades. Read my Treble review.
The best compliment a young band can receive comes in the form of a query delivered with a tone of disbelief: “Is this really your first record?” Ossuary, with their searing Abhorrent Worship, deserve such a response—and I bestow them with it in my latest contribution to Post-Trash.
Birth (Defects) vocalist Sean Gray, guitarist Rob Savillo and electronics handler Joey Generic give New Noise a rather riotous, hourlong conversation as the Baltimore band’s career is now over. Read my feature on the reigning crust punk in the latest edition of New Noise magazine; or here, if you wanna be all, like, “Man, I ain’t even heard of twenty … what did you call them, homie, “Days”?
It appears that Kyuss, the early stoner-rock band co-founded by guitarist/vocalist Josh Homme (also of Queens of the Stone Age), may be finally ready to reassemble his earlier project. Somewhere in the Palm Desert region, surely. Sitting in a circle, of course. That way, the group can maximally aerate the moon by channeling unholy reservoirs of toxins into the tractor bea- …
… Huh? What’s that now? Well, huh to you too, big man. Huh to you too.
Read much more from my FLOOD feature on the eternal desert rock hounds. Meanwhile, in related news, The Bad Penny recently caught up with Oliveri, to chat about: You guessed it, all things Oliveri. That includes reminiscing on his days with Kyuss. Stay tuned for that big mug of slow joe coming from somewhere in … eh, let’s play it safe and keep it at “future” for now.
Toiling away at creating a style all their own for over a decade, the latest LP by Richmond, VA’s Keep exudes a sense of freedom in their doomsday shoegaze sound. Read my FLOOD review of Almost Static.
John Dieterich, guitarist for one of the most respected, popular, and experimental indie-rock bands ever, is just like the rest of us when it comes to opening his heart to, and taking care of, animals. Shortly after the April release of Noble and Godlike in Ruin, the 20th studio album by Deerhoof, he gushed to New Noise about his unconditional love for his dog, Ida Strawberry.
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