Brandon of Stereogum recently conducted an interview with Fenriz of Darkthrone. A few excerpts of the chat follow below: STEREOGUM: you've experimented with different approaches throughout your career ?with The Cult Is Alive you shifted to a more blackened crusty punk sound. What inspired that dire ...

Scott “Wino” Weinrich  told the German edition of Metal Hammer magazine that Saint Vitus has yet to find a record label, and has only written one new song so far, but that a full-length studio effort from the group will likely surface within the next 12 months. Watch the chat at THI ...

Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: On their first two albums (1998’s Gangstabilly and 1999’s Pizza Deliverance), the Drive-By Truckers were supreme redneck jokesters, specializing in scabrous white-trash vignettes owing more to Southern Gothic fiction (Fl ...

Janet Willis of HellrideMusic recently conducted an interview with Ken Baluke of Sons of Otis. A few excerpts of the chat follow below: Hellride Music: This has been a long time in the making due to my constant daily insanity? late but worth the wait. You guys have been around for a while now, and ...

It?s been seven years since the last Solace record came out, and The Obelisk is proud to premiere the first leaked track from their new record, A.D., which hits iTunes next month and will exist in the physical realm come June. The song is ‘Za Gamman’, and it rocks. Solace, ‘Za Gamm ...

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: It was clear from the last Lamp of the Universe record, Acid Mantra, that Kiwi psychedelicist Craig Williamson was looking to do something a little more structured. Williamson, who cut his riffing teeth playing in underrated head rockers Datura, emerges from the co ...

An eight-minute trailer for The Guessing Game, the ninth full-length album from the veteran British doom / stoner band Cathedral, can be viewed below. The CD is scheduled for release on March 26 in Europe and on April 20 in North America. Produced once again by Warren Riker , who also took care o ...