Missing out on this is sort of like missing out on last call at the bar. If they gave you extra beers at the same price, that is. 

For this week’s Demo:listen we dredge up your nightmares with California’s Barren Altar and a new Canadian monster known as Amphisbaena . . .

We teamed up with FreqsTV, the all-original rock and metal documentary channel on YouTube, for some pavement-crushing tour videography. 

It takes two to terrify!

Lita Ford is the undisputed Queen of Heavy Metal, and after reading her long-awaited autobiography, Living Like a Runaway, I can say one thing’s for certain: Heavy lies the crown.

Normally, this is the spot where time would be taken to give an introduction to the band, but guitarist Jeremy Perkins took the baton and ran with it like a motherfucker when we sent Montreal’s Éohum a few questions about having a full time French horn player augmenting their doomy black metal.

There will be shred. 

Are you an axe wielding, headbanging, record collecting design enthusiast who has a passion for print?

The regional openers for the Portland date of the dB Tour mean business.

Where were you when you first unlocked an unlisted track after a long period of dubious silence as a record played possum? Or when you noticed an album creeping up to track 69, where Tool’s “Disgustipated” lurked at the edge of Undertow? If you were born after 1995, maybe never.