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Kelly Shaefer is an innovator who helped to invent technical death metal as the guitarist and vocalist in Atheist. Others might identify him as one of the self-indulgent virtuosos that…
You don’t find many grunge revival artists that evolve into a metal band. The pejorative term for the former is post-grunge. Some people in America lampoon it as “butt rock”,…
How do you make sludge metal interesting to those that want it to be something other than grim? Brooklyn quartet, Somnuri, are not about to sugar-coat it with sorrowful shoegaze…
Krista Van Guilder might have a quintessential Dutch surname, but she’s synonymous with Massachusetts in the Northeast of the United States. A veteran musician in the state’s doom metal scene…
You could be forgiven for thinking that French sludge quartet, Averysadstory, broke up after 2015’s Tools of Death album. A handful of live shows in 2018 and 2019 supporting Karma…
American trio, Spotlights, are a cult band with a strong DIY ethic. Now on their fourth LP and first for Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records, they hit the road at the…
King’s X are one of those bands that always had the critical acclaim but no breakout commercial success. Their first five albums are as good as anyone’s. 1989’s Gretchen Goes…
This year could be one of the most fertile for doom metal since the early 1990s. Messa, Eight Bells, Tuskar and Hangman’s Chair have all put their spin on the…