Category: Features
Deconstructing Dødsfest! – A Dialogue With Beaten To Death
Originally written by Ian Chainey and Jordan Campbell With their second record, Beaten To Death has emerged as one of the most inspired acts in not only modern grindcore, but the entire spectrum of musical …
Keep It Short, Stupid – EP Round-Up: November Part 2
Heavy metal’s highway is stacked ten miles deep with bumper-to-bumper short-player traffic in 2013, and we’re doing our best to pick through the releases most likely to land on our readers’ collective radar. Here’s round …
Hold Your Tongues – Pelican vs. Russian Circles
Originally written by Dean Brown. Since primitive man made a rhythmic racket by slapping a stick off a rock-face, instrumental music has always been an important part of our culture throughout the ages. Nowadays we …
Mad Max On The Autobahn – A Krautrock Primer, Part 2
originally written by Craig Hayes If you took the time to read Part One of this Mad Max on the Autobahn feature (and danke schön! if you did), then you’ll be aware that part two …
Mad Max On The Autobahn – A Krautrock Primer, Part 1
originally written by Craig Hayes Metal has cooked up plenty of hearty musical combinations over the years, and some of the most tempting have resulted from peppering the sonic stew with Krautrock. This year, Finnish …
Epicus Doomicus Boringus
Originally written by Erik Highter. How long is too long? Back in 1968, Iron Butterfly’s “In A Gadda Da Vida” took up an album side with 17 minutes of what most would call aimless noodling. …
Four To Score: Carpe Noctem And Three More
This article was originally written by Last Rites Old Guard member Ian Chainey With more new metal releases than ever before, ‘heads are forced to acknowledge some rad records shoot between their legs as if …
Things That Go Blargh In The Night – Songs That Scare Our Scribes
Our friends, coworkers, and subway-squinters-at-our-patches all say the same thing: “Metal? You like scary music.” Like every cut pumping through our cans is nothing but a game of Candyman. To them, we’re frittering away our …