Creedence
Creedence Clearwater Revival are one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history, and it seems like they wanted it that way. Best known for catchy rock ‘n’ roll singles, sung by John Fogerty in a...
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Portuguese instrumental rock trio Black Bombaim have good taste in collaborators. Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, synth player Luís Fernandes, and Earthless guitarist Isaiah Mitchell have all made...
View ArticleLucifer
Discogs is not a perfectly accurate reflection of music history. Because its data is user-generated, it reflects those users’ preferences and the limitations of their knowledge. So, for example, while...
View ArticleTitan To Tachyons
Avant-garde metal continues to gush forth from New York City at an unprecedented rate, and the latest manifestation comes in the form of the trio Titan to Tachyons. The rhythm section consists of what...
View ArticleIncantation
Being a death metal institution is a weird feeling, I imagine. On the one hand, you’re being rewarded for making the music you love, but on the other hand, nobody expects you to progress — indeed,...
View ArticleSpirit Adrift
Spirit Adrift, a duo from Phoenix, Arizona, play traditional metal: loud, not too fast, catchy and headbang-worthy at once, aiming for operatic grandeur but settling for fist-pumping grit. This is not...
View ArticleSunbomb
It’s good to have your preconceptions upended. It’s good to be surprised. But it doesn’t actually happen that often, especially as you age and the boundaries around your taste solidify. After a few...
View ArticleMarta Gabriel
Metal is in many ways unrecognizable to people who’ve been listening to it since its earliest days. A brief history lesson: heavy metal, as it was originally called, evolved out of the bluesy hard...
View ArticleKælan Mikla
Kælan Mikla started things off right. Their first album (their second, really, but we’ll get to that), Kælan Mikla, opens with the song “Kælan Mikla,” in the tradition of Black Sabbath (whose...
View ArticleEric Wagner
Former Trouble singer Eric Wagner died of complications from COVID-19 in August 2021, at the age of 62. His band at the time, The Skull, had dropped off a scheduled US tour with The Obsessed after...
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