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Watain - Trident Wolf Apocalypse (9/10)
Twenty years into their career delivering some of the most blasphemous metal this side of Sweden, the Theistic Satanists (look it up) continue to adorn their concerts in animal carcass, ... -
Signing Story: Coast Modern
Name a band––any band––that got signed to a label before playing a single concert. Used up all your lifelines yet? Well, in the Bandcamp Era––a time when labels rely as ... -
Signing Story: Ocean Park Standoff
Samantha Ronson––that’s right, the reputed London DJ whose romance with Lindsay Lohan drew her enough limelight for a lifetime––is shy about her music. In March 2015, Ronson, along with drummer/producer Pete ... -
Maren Morris: Grammy Winner on Songwriting and Touring
Maren Morris was terrified when she won the Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance at the awards ceremony in February. Terrified that she would trip on her dress. The singer-songwriter hadn’t ... -
Signing Story: Brett Young
It can be lonely at the top. Just ask Brett Young, who topped the Country Aircheck/Mediabase/USA Today chart with a song called “Sleep Without You.” What’s particularly notable about the ... -
Music Album Review: Fucked Up - "Year of the Snake" (9/10)
Fucked Up have balls. Their shows are spotlighted by a hairy-backed, sweaty brute who barrels through the crowd like an uncaged wildebeest. The band’s records capture some of this mayhem ... -
Signing Story: J Motor
Quick quiz: Would you rather be affiliated with iconic publishing house BMG or red-hot supernatural television show Stranger Things? Fortunately for Australian electronic musician J Motor, he doesn’t have to choose: ... -
Music Album Review: Mastodom - "Emperor of Sand" (10/10)
In an age where extreme metal reigns, Mastodon are one of the few metal bands accessible to the mainstream. On Emperor the songs are punchier and poppier than the band’s mid-career forays into heady prog. ... -
Signing Story: Fire From the Gods
Hustle and flow. If Austin’s Fire From the Gods have a mantra, it might very well be that one: Over the years, the band has worked the circuit hard, all ... -
Music Album Review: Entrance - "Book of Changes" (6/10)
Entrance has to be seen to be believed––but hearing them gets you about halfway there. Guy Blakeslee and company eschew most conventions, turning the experience into a hocus-pocus affair far removed from the ordinary. ... -
Signing Story: Jay Som
Drinking and using the Internet can certainly have its downside. Take posting nude selfies, for example. But for at least one budding musician, it was a sloppy decision that paid ... -
Music Album Review: Iron Reagan - "Crossover Ministry" (8/10)
Anchored by Municipal Waste singer Tony Foresta and bassist Land Phil and rounded out by ex-Darkest Hour skin-slapper Ryan Parrish, former A.N.S. guitarist Mark Bronzino and Hellbear bassist Rob Skotis, ... -
Music Album Review: Årabrot - "The Gospel" (8/10)
The Gospel, according to Årabrot frontman Kjetil Nernes, is about a warrior’s re-entry into the world after a bloody battle. The saga is very much his own, with the singer ... -
Singers on Singing • 2016
For this year’s exclusive, genre-bending singers roundtable, we talked with vocalists who have sold millions of records (CeeLo Green), performed blistering sets at major festivals (Meg Myers); recorded an album ... -
Album Review: Magrudergrind - "//" (8/10)
About six years ago, Magrudergrind blew the doors off The Roxy in Los Angeles with a matinee gig hosted by Scion Metal. Despite immediately establishing themselves as a force to ... -
Signing Story: Royal Thunder
The first time Spinefarm Records reps went to a Royal Thunder gig, their guitarist Josh Weaver bolted from the stage mid-song and— before making it to the bathroom—unleashed a torrent ... -
Album Reviews: Abbath - "Abbath" (8/10)
Black metal fans saw their collective sorrow hit new depths last year when Abbath, co- founder of Immortal, left the legendary Nor wegian band amid a copyright dispute. As it turns out, ... -
Album Review: Baroness - "Purple" (10/10)
In August 2012, Baroness were in a bus crash that seriously injured frontman John Baizley and led to the departure of their drummer and bassist. As one would expect, fallout ... -
Album Review: Holy Grail - "Times of Pride and Peril" (9/10)
Falsetto-vocal bands are returning to metal in full force, but nine times out of 10, their sound amounts to a heaping pile of Velveeta. That leaves plenty of room for ... -
Album Review: Sunn 0))) - "Kannon" (9/10)
Three songs. Thirty-three minutes. A $333 bet that Kannon will be regarded as the best drone album of 2015. Greg Anderson has said in interviews that he’s trying to make ...
