ROADBURN 2016 DAY ONE: Cosmic Truth
04.15.16 – 00:16 — Hotel room, Tilburg Already it seems like Roadburn is in full swing. There’s no sense of the outside world, only Roadburn, which always has and always will. Familiar faces abound,...
View ArticleRoadburn 2016 Audio Streams: CHRCH, Bliksem, Chaos Echoes, Yodok III, Daniel...
This invariably happens every year. I’ll grant that the audio streams from Roadburn 2016 seem especially quick in arriving — the last batch was only 10 days ago — but at some point every year there’s...
View ArticleNorthwest Terror Fest 2017: Coven and John Haughm Added to Lineup
Losing Warning is a bummer, but Northwest Terror Fest 2017 is taking it in stride and taking its game to another level entirely by adding Coven to the bill for their first US show in 27 years. I had...
View ArticleCHRCH & Fister Release Split LP Tomorrow
Do you love atmospherically switched on and utterly skull-cleaving extreme doom? Sure, we all do. One should therefore take note of tomorrow as the release date of the new split between Los Angeles...
View ArticleCHRCH Sign to Neurot Recordings; Light Will Consume us All Due Spring 2018
If there was any doubt that Sacramento megadoomers CHRCH made an impression with their 2015 Battleground Records debut album, Unanswered Hymns (review here), that might’ve been leftover after they hit...
View ArticleDesertfest London 2018 Lineup Complete: Hawkwind, Radio Moscow, Wino,...
A well-earned slow clap for Desertfest London 2018 on the occasion of completing what is unquestionably its broadest, biggest and most staggering lineup to-date. The festival has been outdoing itself...
View ArticleCHRCH to Release Light Will Consume Us All April 27; Album Details Revealed
Yeah, the dark cover art is cool, and it’s nice to know that immediately upon releasing their new album, CHRCH will make a break for European shores to tour with 2017 splitmates Fister, but what I...
View ArticleCHRCH Announce West Coast Tour Dates with YOB & Acid King; On the Road Next...
Californian hyperbole-inspiration specialists CHRCH head out on a tour next week that will take them to Austin Terror Fest the lineup for which indeed looks duly terrifying. Perhaps even scarier than...
View ArticleQuarterly Review: CHRCH, Bongripper, King Chiefs, Bonnacons of Doom, Boar,...
You know the deal by now, I’m sure: 50 reviews this week between now and Friday, in batches of 10 per day. It’s an unholy amount of music, but those who really dig in always seem to find something...
View ArticlePsycho Smokeout Set for April 20 in Los Angeles; Elder, Monolord, Amenra,...
With the advent of the Psycho Smokeout in Los Angeles next April 20, Psycho Entertainment partners with RidingEasy Records and enters the fray of a busy Spring festival season, pushing Elder and...
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