Tag: experimental

  • Tidal Arms – Tidal Arms

    Tidal Arms – Tidal Arms

    By Gruesome Greg Although their self-titled is actually the second album from this Brooklyn-based trio, it happens to be their first that I’ve actually heard.  Can I just say props for having a song named “Jelloshotgun”?  I could use one of those… Anyways, what we’ve got here are 10 tracks of angly, jangly, mathy post-metal that…

  • The Night Watch – s/t

    Hellbound Metal: “The Night Watch have released a challenging debut, one which initially did not work for me. Though not all the tracks stand out, it’s with repeated listens that it becomes apparent to me that the album is an exciting piece of avant-garde metal/post-rock/insert label here.”

  • Thérèse Lanz of Mares of Thrace: The Hellbound Audio interview

    Thérèse Lanz of Mares of Thrace: The Hellbound Audio interview

    I had the opportunity to chat with Thérèse Lanz about Mexican food, video games, being interviewed, stupid questions she is asked, Chicago (and what to eat late night), U.S. Politics and a little bit about music a few weeks prior to the release of The Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon Metal) and the cross Canada tour that…

  • Primus @ Sound Academy, Toronto, ON, July 27, 2010

    “While avoiding the bookend records (Suck On This and Antipop) completely, Primus pulled together a set tailor-made to please the devout and focused on fan favorites like “Eleven,” “Pudding Time,” “Golden Boy” and “Southbound Pachyderm” rather than reaching for any “Wynona” or “My Name Is Mud”-sized brass rings (“Jerry Was A Racecar Driver” represented the…

  • Nachtmystium – Not so black metal

    While the practice of genre blending is nothing new to the world of metal, few bands have taken it to the extremes that Chicago band Nachtmystium have. Built on a strong foundation of second wave black metal, that band have evolved progressively into a psychedelic, industrial and post punk fueled black metal behemoth, culminating in…

  • Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part II

    Addicts is one of the most diverse albums to be released in a long while and one that would be a crying shame to miss. Nachtmystium have become masters at pushing their genre to new and unexplored limits. Expect imitators, but don’t accept imitations.

  • Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones

    Could it be that after three decades as metal musician Fischer has found his voice after playing with so many different styles? Eparistera Daimones is not that different from Monotheist, but that’s not a detriment when following an album that revived your career and reputation. Triptykon’s debut is a worthy piece in Fischer’s enigmatic but…

  • Into the crawlspace with THE WHITE MICE

    Like the rodents they are named after, The White Mice are an elusive target. Here are the known facts; the band is from Providence, R.I. They released the wonderfully twisted Ganjahovadose via 20 Buck Spin last year. They’ve recorded a slew of splits and EPs with titles like Mouse of Mendes and Do They Know…

  • The Melvins: Chicken Switch

    For this album, thirteen musicians weren’t just handed a single song and asked to artfully adorn it with electronics, they were handed as much source material from The Melvins’ songbook as they wanted and asked to get as creative as they wanted in creating something new from their source material selections; essentially being asked to…

  • Gaza: He Is Never Coming Back

    Gaza’s He Is Never Coming Back is a tumultuous collection of powerful, almost too emotional songs that are heavy – not for simply being dudes from Salt Lake City who want to show who has the biggest balls on the block, but simply because they have something very powerful to day.