Swans
Cinemartyr Aren’t Afraid to Step on Hallowed Ground
September 23, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out chameleonic New York band Cinemartyr‘s cover of Swans’ “New Mind”!
Swans – Children of God
October 29, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Swans’ 1987 classic Children of God is the latest Decibel Hall of Fame inductee.
Watch a New Trailer for Swans Documentary, ‘Where Does a Body End?’
September 2, 2020 Emily Bellino
Watch a new trailer for Swans documentary Where Does a Body Go?
Exclusive: Stream the new SWANS album “Leaving Meaning”
October 23, 2019 Justin Norton
While listening to the new Swans LP, Leaving Meaning, check out a new Q&A with Michael Gira about how the album came together and what’s next for Swans.
Video Premiere: EXCOP – ‘Tina’
April 22, 2019 Emily Bellino
EXCOP (featuring former members of Swans and Cop Shoot Cop) reveal the video for “Tina.”
Q&A: Michael Gira on new Swans, performing solo and creativity
December 19, 2018 Justin Norton
Michael Gira discusses Swans, his solo career, the impact of social media and more.
Prolific Producer Martin Bisi on Working with Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, Foetus, Live Skull
April 12, 2018 Emily Bellino
Prolific producer Martin Bisi shares memories of working with Sonic Youth, Foetus, Cop Shoot Cop and more.
Wrekmeister Harmonies Give A Master Class in Unorthodox Heaviness
April 11, 2018 Shawn Macomber
Want to find out more about how Wrekmeister Harmonies learned to sonically collapse your consciousness? Of course you do!
Interview: Rick Duncan of Portland bass-and-drum duo Towers talks weird sounds, perfectionism and practice room magic
March 3, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Towers come from Portland, Oregon, and have this awesome sound that’s a strange brew concocted of low-end bass hum and psych-stoner doom, post-punk and krautrock. There is a lot more in there, too. Putatively, it’s metal all right, but with a center so dark and heavy it can pull in all manner of outré influences…
“Something wicked this way comes…” Black Sun Drum Korps bring industrial doom to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
July 16, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
On 21 September, Scotland’s most enthusiastical audio bloodletters Black Sun will reimagine Shakespeare’s most brutal play as a theatrical work of avant-garde metal. The Glaswegian industrial/doom trio, operating under their extra-war-and-extra-percussion Black Sun Drums Korps handle, will take the Bard’s text, cut it up and adapt it to their own aesthetic. Given how carnal, martial…