Split Premiere: Bog Body & Primitive Warfare

Back-to-back interviews with New York guitarless death-sludge duo Bog Body and South Carolina pale horse Primitive Warfare plus a full stream of their unbelievable new split album.

Five For Friday: April 24, 2020

This week’s new releases include albums from Katatonia, Ulcerate and other luminaries of trad-metal, death metal, and raw black metal.

Undersmile: The Best Band at Roadburn a Certain Writer Didn’t See

When you attend Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, you’re going to have to make some difficult choices, because with four separate venues going at the same time, you are not going to see all bands. Especially if you’re like me, and are such a total fanboy when it comes to a handful of acts that you insist on seeing their complete set. 

The Locrian Lowdown: Annihilation Edition

The new Locrian record Return to Annihilation is out today and — perhaps predictably — it’s fucking awesome and epic and enthralling and, yeah, maybe a little nutty. Go hear for yourself here, buy it here, and check out the band’s exclusive track-by-track listening guide below. 1. Eternal Return We wanted to start out the…

For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of the Week

ANTHRAX are back at it and because Worship Music wasn’t that bad, this bird brain had high hopes for the EP Anthems. Then I saw it was a covers EP. Oof. This thing stinks more than a pile of homeless people fighting over a bag of buttholes. You really want to hear a bunch of…