Richmond

Q&A: City Of Caterpillar’s Ryan Parrish On Genre Tags and Underground Ethics

September 6, 2022

Richmond noise rock heroes City Of Caterpillar discuss their 20-year “hiatus” and the unlikely-awesome new LP, Mystic Sisters.

Track Premiere: Guardrails — “Yours Truly”

March 9, 2022

It’s been a long goddamn while since a hardcore band blasted out of the gate with a sound as feral and kinetic – yet savvily refined in construction – as Guardrails. Hear them now.

Enforced To Release Exclusive Single, “Casket,” via the Decibel Flexi Series

December 2, 2021

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, December 6 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Richmond thrashmongers Enforced.

Full Album Stream: The Astral Void – ‘Earthen Tomb’

June 3, 2020

Join us in celebrating Earthen Tomb, the stunning debut album from Virginian doomsters The Astral Void.

Track Premiere: Battlemaster – ‘Black Challenge’

June 1, 2020

Take the “Black Challenge” with long-running Richmond blackened thrashers Battlemaster.

Full Album Stream: Antichrist Siege Machine – “Schism Perpetration”

August 26, 2019

Richmond devastators Antichrist Siege Machine show their true form on debut full length. Hear Schism Perpetration in all its unholy glory right now.

GWAR Begin Crowdfunding New Card Game

July 30, 2019

Travel throughout GWAR‘s history in a new card game.

Demo:listen: Omen Stones

May 31, 2019

This week’s Demo:listen features Richmond’s hard-hitting and mercurial Omen Stones.

Brewtal Truth: Champion Brewing Hosts ‘Benefit For Balsac’

April 4, 2018

The craft beer and metal worlds team up for a special show this Saturday, April 7, to benefit GWAR’s Balsac the Jaws of Death, aka Michael Derks

Brewtal Truth: Dave Witte’s Food, Beer & Metal Life

February 21, 2018

Municipal Waste drummer Dave Witte dishes on all the dishes he’s whipping up at his Go Go Vegan food truck, as well as his latest beer and musical projects.

Metal & Beer: Municipal Waste Teams Up With Cigar City Brewing

May 12, 2017

You can’t purchase the new Municipal Waste album, Slime and Punishment, until June 23, but you can now drink the band’s collaboration, Divine Blasphemer Smoked Porter, with metal-friendly Tampa brewery Cigar City.

Exclusive Video Premiere: BAT – “Beware of the Bat”

January 18, 2017

Apparently it’s difficult to pull off a good metal video. Richmond’s BAT make it look not only easy, but fun as hell, too, with their new black&white, B movie-inspired thriller, “Beware of the Bat.”

Piece By Piece and Friend Or Foe Premiere Songs From Upcoming Compilation

October 19, 2016

The Extermination series of hardcore compilations has featured a top notch roster of bands in the past. Piece By Piece and Friend or Foe join that roster on The Extermination: Vol. 3. 

Dave Witte helped write music for a 30-person drum circle

August 18, 2016

The Municipal Waste drummer is collaborating with Richard Christy (The Howard Stern Show, Death, Charred Walls of the Damned) and 30 others in Richmond on August 28 on the Shape of Sound. 

Dave Brockie: 1963-2014

March 24, 2014

In the late 90s, perhaps around 1998, I pulled over at a truck stop about 45 miles outside of Richmond, Virginia. I grabbed a few snacks and went to the checkout line when it occurred to me that the clerk was staring, somewhat horrified. I looked down and remembered why: my entire body was covered…