Los Angeles Crimson/Camus-referencing progressive doom/sludge quintet Ancestors (not the powerviolence black metal band of the same name) released their second album Of Sound Mind in October. We…   Read Story »

Every year I'm tempted to -- and sometimes do -- say "this has been a great year for metal." It's a toss-away idea: If you consume the genre obsessively, every year seems sort of great, the chaff…   Read Story »

Ancestors' second full-length Of Sound Mind isn't out until October, but the Los Angeles quintet's packed these eight new songs with enough layers of progressive doom expansiveness that you should…   Read Story »