Brandon "Show No Mercy" Stosuy highlights the best new metal music whenever he damn well pleases.
Jul 11th, 2011 7 Comments
Anyone who talks about London-based vocalist/guitarist Patrick Walker's elegant doom trio 40 Watt Sun mentions his legendary, also elegant doom trio Warning. You have to, really. (Grab 2006’s… Read Story »
Jul 6th, 2011 10 Comments
Deafheaven's Roads To Judah came up a few times in the comments of my Top 26 Metal Albums Of 2011 So Far. With reason. The San Francisco group's gorgeous 4-song, 38-minute full-length debut blends… Read Story »
Jun 30th, 2011 4 Comments
The Phoenix-born Northern California/Brooklyn-based noisemakers Servile Sect play "sci-fi influenced black metal." It's even more awesome than that sounds. The band, featuring Luke Krnkr (one half of… Read Story »
Jun 28th, 2011 82 Comments
Before the quibbling starts: I didn't include YOB's Atma because it isn't out until August. It would be way up there. I've also been listening to Dragged Into Sunlight's Hatred For Mankind quite a… Read Story »
Jun 23rd, 2011 5 Comments
If you missed 2009's The Vault of Membros demo or this year's Winterwolf split or The Manifestation 7", take note: Clifton, NJ's Disma is a suffocatingly down-tuned quintet led by legendary… Read Story »
Jun 21st, 2011 2 Comments
Offering outsiders a look at what's going on in one of the louder corners of Brooklyn, practice-space cohorts (and soon-to-be tourmates) Batillus and Mutilation Rites are releasing a split 7" next… Read Story »
Jun 20th, 2011 17 Comments
If you have any interest in underground metal, black or otherwise, you're aware of the uproar created by Brooklyn quartet Liturgy. Much of the disdain's focused on frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, and… Read Story »
Jun 15th, 2011 5 Comments
Oregon doom trio Yob's "comeback" fifth album The Great Cessation, the first post-Middian/Age Eternal offering under the Yob name since 2005's The Unreal Never Lived, landed at No. 6 on my 30 Best… Read Story »
Jun 13th, 2011 4 Comments
As HTC pal Kim Kelly posted over the weekend, legendary Anal Cunt frontman (and best song titler ever) Seth Putnam died of a heart attack on Saturday 6/11. The grindcore icon was 43. You can read… Read Story »
Jun 10th, 2011 2 Comments
French Folk Fuck black metal punk weirdos Peste Noire's last album, the François Villon-homaging Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor, landed at No. 5 of my 30 Best Metal Albums Of 2009. As I wrote then… Read Story »
