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Earlier this week, iconic American filmmaker David Lynch died, leaving behind an astonishingly brilliant and bizarre body of work that blends violence, romance, mystery, surrealism,…
Blood Incantation is probably the most divisive critically-acclaimed metal band to come along since Deafheaven dropped that pink album in 2013. You either love Blood…
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Death metal is only called death metal because it sounds like the kind of metal Chuck Schuldiner invented (at an age when most of us…
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Gorguts does not have a bad album. Luc Lemay is a musical genius and an extreme metal icon. We’d be remiss not to also say…
As has already been established in this very publication, Cattle Decapitation is the furiously-misanthropic, environmentally-conscious, and stunningly-virtuosic tech-death/grindcore band of choice for the cultured, discriminating…
This Will Destroy You is perhaps the quintessential instrumental post-rock outfit of the 2000s. They play shimmering, guitar-driven compositions, they lean hard into the loud-soft-loud…
Russian Circles is one of the most reliable workhorse bands in all of indie metal. They’re 99.9% instrumental, they eschew gimmickry of any sort, and,…
Deafheaven appeared out of nowhere in 2011 with a solid debut LP, and then became the decade’s most exhaustively-argued-about purveyors of heavy music in 2013.…