Metal Alliance Tour: The Stars Align Alessandra Donnelly March 20, 2012 Goings-On Springtime in New Jersey means two things; we don’t need to pile on 15 layers just to get the mail and the announcements of summer tours and festivals begin. That wish for warm weather shows to look forward to ...
Interview with Blut: Drop Out And Kill JJ Koczan January 18, 2012 Interviews Lo-fi British duo Blut make their home in fucked-up drone and doomed riffing, working hard to sound as inaccessible as possible at any given moment. This is completely on purpose. The band’s warped vision o...
Interview With Eric Wagner: Doomed And Doomed Anew JJ Koczan January 6, 2012 Interviews It was a shock when Trouble vocalist Eric Wagner split from the long-running and influential Chicago classic doom outfit. The band’s much-awaited album, Simple Mind Condition, had finally been released, and...
Interview with Mike Scheidt from YOB: The Union Of Selves JJ Koczan August 12, 2011 Interviews Theirs is among the most inimitable sounds in all of underground heavy music, and with the self-produced Atma, their second album for Profound Lore following 2009’s excellent The Great Cessation, Eugene, OR...
Interview with Ben Hogg from Hour Of 13: The Time Is Now JJ Koczan May 4, 2011 Interviews The new guy in North Carolinian doom outfit Hour Of 13 is anything but. As the longtime frontman of Beaten Back To Pure and Birds Of Prey, Ben Hogg has been a one-man Southern metal massacre for well over a...
Interview with Adam Norden from American Heritage: Exploring Our Sedentary Nature JJ Koczan April 13, 2011 Interviews After a six-year interval (the reasons for which are discussed below), Chicago/Georgia outfit American Heritage return with their second Translation Loss full-length, Sedentary. The album, which features a ...
Grails: Dug In Deep JJ Koczan March 30, 2011 Columns After releasing their first two albums on Neurot, Portland, Oregon instrumental unit Grails began their association with Temporary Residence by appearing on the avant Black Sabbath tribute Everything Comes ...
Interview With Scott “Wino” Weinrich: The Prophet Of Doom JJ Koczan February 9, 2011 Interviews 3 In March, legendary singer and guitarist Scott “Wino” Weinrich will officially release the vinyl edition of his first-ever acoustic album, Adrift, via Volcom Entertainment (the CD is out on Exile On Mainstr...
Interview with Jus Oborn from Electric Wizard: Spine Tingle And Soul Burn JJ Koczan February 2, 2011 Interviews Their music is creepier than Christopher Lee overseeing an island of naked ‘70s pagan hippies, and for U.K. doomers Electric Wizard, that’s just how they want it. For nigh on 18 years, guitarist/vocalist Jus Ob...
Electric Wizard: Worship At ‘Black Masses’ JJ Koczan December 15, 2010 Columns 1 The seventh album from Dorset cult kings (and queen), Electric Wizard’s Black Masses (Rise Above) cements the band as one of the most important and accomplished acts in doom. The burgeoning genre of occult doom...
