NEW YORK, NY— The name Black Cobra might seem pedestrian as far as metal band names go, but after experiencing this severe two-piece in the live setting, there is no name that would suite them better. Their high-energy style of doom metal is accomplished through colossal and uncompromising battery from…

MILTON, CT—After Black Sabbath no band has been more important to the development of doom and sludge metal than New Orleans-based misanthropes, Eyehategod. Having endured several hiatuses over the years due to activity from the member’s other bands and vocalist Mike Williams’ legendary struggles with heroin addiction and alcoholism, Eyehategod…

If you didn’t ever think you would hear a heavy metal guitar solo in a country song, the title track from Hank Williams III’s Rebel Within will blow your mind. On an album full of songs about booze, whores, getting drunk and getting high, some fret board fireworks aren’t as…

On this, their third full-length offering, Coliseum provide a balanced and eclectic mix of sludgy, post-metal inspired, hardcore that is vast sounding, memorable and contrite.

With only one track surpassing the five-minute mark, Coliseum are as equal parts Neurosis and Melvins as they are Social Distortion or Black Flag. The…

Agonizingly slow, ambient, funeral style experimental doom, with wailing vocals. I mean that in a very, very good way.

A Small Turn of Human Kindness is almost laughably heavy at times with distorted chords sustained over measures upon measures of crawling, grim doom. Metal of this kind that is lyrically…

After contemplating retirement for a number of years now, there is a possibility that with their seventeenth studio album the Scorpions may finally do just that (they’ve announced it, if that means anything). And if retirement is in the near future for the band, though they will always be remembered…

This spastic array of fusion and rock from former King Crimson bassist Trey Gunn is more a record of a man exploring his own musical limits than an album in any traditional sense of the word. Of course, when someone composes over a 51-minute drum solo by one of the…

NEW YORK, NY—I hadn’t felt quite this excited about a show in a long time. Now, I was about to witness what I fully expected to be the epitome of an Opeth show. They were to play three hours of music spanning their entire catalogue, including a performance of my…

Lots of indie bands try to blend elements of R&B and soul into their music and Brooklyn’s Apollo Run do it about as seamlessly as anyone. The band shows of their considerable talent by going from catchy piano-driven pop to brassy New Orleans soul all fueled by the incredibly versatile…

With a heavy focus on lyrics and melody, NJ-based indie/folk group River City Extension’s debut features promising songs that mercifully avoid most clichéd indie rock themes.

Getting his start in coffee houses (the way all respectable singer-songwriters do), vocalist/guitarist, Joseph Michelini decided his solo performances could do with some bolstering.…