Swans

Check out chameleonic New York band Cinemartyr‘s cover of Swans’ “New Mind”!

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 Go?

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.

EXCOP (featuring former members of Swans and Cop Shoot Cop) reveal the video for “Tina.”

Michael Gira discusses Swans, his solo career, the impact of social media and more.

Prolific producer Martin Bisi shares memories of working with Sonic Youth, Foetus, Cop Shoot Cop and more.

Want to find out more about how Wrekmeister Harmonies learned to sonically collapse your consciousness? Of course you do!

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…

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…