Find out why Henry Yuan over at Metalkult picked Sweden’s Noctum for his Notes From the Underground:  Deep within the heavy metal underground, there exists a place where the old style of heavy blues-based doom rock is still practiced, where the hellish sounds of early Black Sabbath, Flowe ...

Praise for Church of Misery‘s Early Works compilation from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Yeah, it’s expensive, but wait til you get a load of this sludge doom monstrosity, a massive triple LP, in a super deluxe heavy sleeve, it weighs a ton, as it should, cuz this is one seriou ...

Michael Gira has reactivated his No Wave / industrial / apocalyptic folk project Swans for the first time in 13-years, so who better to ask than him for a track-by-track review: The Quietus: What appears at first to be field recordings of church bells (but is actually percussion) and squealing, wor ...

"Eden Prison", a brand new song from Swans is available for streaming HERE, courtesy of Stereogum / Haunting The Chapel and The Quietus (down below). The track comes off the band's full-length, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky , which will be available September 27 via Michael Gira&rsqu ...

In June 2010, Cormac O’Síocháin conducted an interview with former Hellhammer/Celtic Frost  singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior in Tokyo, Japan about black metal and the legacy of Hellhammer, the breakup of Celtic Frost  and Tom’s new band, Triptykon. Watch the chat in two parts bel ...

Praise for Pharaoh Overlord‘s  Siluurikaudella from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Our favorite Finnish hypnorock band Circle, and related offshoots, are always both doing the expected, AND the unexpected. Expected, in that in almost all cases, Circle hew to the repetitive, rhyth ...

Lovingly pinched from HellrideMusic: Split releases don't get much better than this. With Morehead, Kentucky's drum n' bass comprised, bowel shaking doom crew Old One on one side and classic minded Massachusetts anchored doom metallists Black Pyramid on the other, there's absolutely no way doom puri ...