Neurot Recordings proudly unveil a brand new live album from Neurosis, who are undoubtedly cited as one of the most influential bands of heavy music's experimental underworld. The first release from Neurosis since 2007's Given to the Rising, this new live album was recorded that same year in Tilbur ...

there's something mentally purifying about New York City trio Castevet's muscular, aggressive blend of progressive black metal, genre-stretching / time-shifting hardcore, ink-dark ambiance, and raw, soul-sick emotion. it's like vintage Unsane bleeding into Leviathan. (Someone should line Castevet up ...

Praise for Grails’ Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 4 from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Once we got over our initial disappointment, that the track ‘I Want A New Drug’, on the Grails‘ long in the works 4th volume in their Black Tar Prophecies series, was not, in fact, a Huey Lewis & The News cover ...

Lovingly pinched from Rockfreaks: Coming from rather an odd angle with their third full length Morte(s) Nee(s) Celeste have well and truly fucked up my mind in trying to work out what is going on in this bruising collision of black metal, post-metal and dashes of hardcore, as I can say without hyper ...

Lovinly pinched from Drowned In Sound: Described by drummer Milo Smee as “a record nobody likes” in an interview I conducted before the record was even released, Crush Depth had already been unfairly, if self-deprecatingly, maligned. Chrome Hoof‘s third full-length embodies all of the dizzying contr ...

Praise for Alkerdeel‘s De Spleenzalvinge from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Brand new record from these blackened Belgian weirdoes, whose sound has changed dramatically from our first exposure to these guys. The grim noisy Luizig cassette, releases on Silvester Anfang’s Funeral Folk label, which ...

Praise for Howl‘s Full of Hell from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: What’s not to love about these guys (and gal)? Crushing, riff heavy grooves, sludgey, and Southern sounding (even though they’re from Rhode Island), downtuned, low slung, brutal, but weirdly catchy too, with a bit of a post rock v ...