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Interview: Karl Simon (The Gates Of Slumber)
Karl Simon (above right) is the vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter for the Indianapolis, Indiana-based band The Gates of Slumber. The group plays doom metal, a style heavily indebted to Black...
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Corrupted
Garten der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain) by Phil Freeman Corrupted are a fascinating, mysterious band. They never grant interviews or allow themselves to be photographed in an official “promo...
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Pilgrim
Misery Wizard (Metal Blade) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Doom might be metal’s most polarizing subgenre. From a strictly musical angle, it can be tough to take—the slowness always risks making it...
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Six New Albums
by Phil Freeman A lot of interesting records came out this week. I picked three jazz albums and three metal albums out of the pile. Black Breath, Sentenced to Life (Southern Lord) Buy it from Amazon...
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Manowar
The Lord of Steel (Magic Circle Music) Buy it from Amazon by Phil Freeman It’s been 30 years since Manowar‘s debut album, Battle Hymns, was released in August 1982. When they first appeared, led by...
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Down
Down IV Part I – The Purple EP (Independent Label Group) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon It’s been five years since Down‘s last studio record, Down III: Over the Under, which itself arrived five...
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Black Sabbath Live 1970
Happy Halloween! Here’s Black Sabbath, live in Paris 1970. Set list: Paranoid Hand of Doom Rat Salad Iron Man Black Sabbath N.I.B. Wasp Behind the Wall of Sleep War Pigs Fairies Wear Boots
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New Orthodox 2CD Set
The somewhat mysterious and always awesome Spanish doom trio Orthodox (read my interview with them from 2011) are releasing a two-CD set of B-sides, rarities and demos, Conoce los Caminos, on Alone...
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Interview: Terrance Hobbs
by Phil Freeman Suffocation are one of the most important American death metal bands; it’s impossible to really embrace the genre without exploring their discography. Their debut album, 1991′s Effigy...
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Dying Embrace
Era of Tribulation (Armée De La Mort) by MacDara Conroy It’s temping to judge the merits of music produced in the developing world through the tinted lens of cultural sensitivity: to let certain...
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A Taxonomy Of Extreme Metal Vocals
Since its inception in the 1970s, metal has been a proving ground for vocalists. First there were the operatic screams of genre pioneers like Ronnie James Dio (of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and a lengthy...
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Black Sabbath
by Phil Freeman It’s 2013, and there’s a new Black Sabbath studio album. That’s surprising. It’s not the massive shock it was sold as being, when it was announced last year, of course. They’d been...
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Interview: JR Robinson (Wrekmeister Harmonies)
Interview by Robert Rubsam Photo by Jaimin Townsely Wrekmeister Harmonies’ You’ve Always Meant So Much to Me is one of this year’s best surprises in the realm of metal. If, like me, you aren’t from...
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“I’ve Always Been Sarcastic”: The Phil Anselmo Interview, Part 2
About five weeks ago, we published the first part of an interview with former Pantera and Superjoint Ritual singer (and current Down frontman) Phil Anselmo, who’s recently released his first album...
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The Best Metal Albums Of 2013: #5-1
Here they are: the top five entries in the Burning Ambulance countdown of the 25 best metal albums of 2013. (Click here to see #s 25-21; click here to see #s 20-16; click here to see #s 15-11; click...
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Eyehategod
Photo: Dean Karr Fourteen years is a serious gap between records for any band that professes to be a going concern. Even for the deliberately slower-paced outfits of the sludgy New Orleans scene, it’s...
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Marco Serrato
Painting: Javi Pessoa Marco Serrato is the bassist for Spanish doom/jazz/garage rock trio Orthodox, who have been discussed extensively on this site over the years. Suffice it to say, they’ll explode...
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Ihsahn
This feature originally appeared late last year, as the cover story to Burning Ambulance #7, which is still for sale as a print magazine, an ebook, or a Kindle edition. We’re publishing it here because...
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Monarch
France’s Monarch are one of those bands for whom genre designation seems reductive. Their music is extraordinarily slow, and heavier than an avalanche, which causes most writers to file them under...
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Huntress
Huntress is a relatively young band, having been around for just over five years. Vocalist Jill Janus, then going by the name Penelope Tuesdae, hired the Los Angeles-based band Professor to perform at...
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