Relapse Records has announced the signing of Japan’s Coffins. The band is currently writing material for its fourth full-length album, to be recorded later in the year. Coffins is a three-piece death/doom band from Tokyo that formed in 1996 and has previously issued three full-length albums an ...

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Following the release of their self-titled debut on Tee-Pee in 2008, the groundswell around Swedish retro rockers Graveyard has been remarkable. The Gothenburg four-piece, born from the same roots as Witchcraft in the band Norrsken, tapped a direct line to the soft ...

Jason Simon, the lead singer and guitarist of psych band Dead Meadow, would like to show you his softer side with his new video for ‘Good Hope Road.’ The music takes inspiration from folksters like Bert Jansch, Leonard Cohen, Sandy Bull and Townes Van Zandt — slow and steady and in ...

Progressive Norwegian rock/metal band Ulver has changed the title of its next album to Wars Of The Roses from the previously announced Critical Geography. A song from the forthcoming effort, ‘February MMX’, is available for streaming using the Soundcloud player below. Continue reading: ...

Lovingly pinched from AllMusic: Baltimore’s Arbouretum are singular on the stoner psych-rock scene. Due in large part to the vision of lyricist, frontman, and lead guitarist Dave Heumann, their sound is simultaneously sprawling, devastatingly heavy, sludgy, meandering, and mysterious. The Gat ...

Mat ?Kvohst? McNerney provides the acrobatic lead vocals for the excellent avant / experimental industrial-leaning Norwegian black metal crew Dødheimsgard as well as the very differently forward-thinking (and also amazing) UK black metal band Code. He takes another turn with his stripped down ?psych ...

Though their similarly monikered Spanish brethren carry the old-school death-metal torch, it’s Sweden’s Graveyard that riffs like that classic rock gods of yesteryear. After a recent departure from Tee Pee Records, the retro-band have signed to Nuclear Blast for their new release Hisinge ...