Our local scene has recently seen a resurgence of new bands outside of the stoner/doom genres, with new releases from Obscene and Fleshbore immediately coming to mind. The latest one we’re thrilled to feature is Indy’s Shroud of Vulture. While [...]
Jag Panzer has always been an underrated yet respected band in American heavy metal scene. That attitude seems to extend to guitarist Mark Briody, the band’s driving force for over thirty years despite being somewhat overshadowed in the public eye [...]
Polish five-piece Outre and Scotland-by-way-of-New Zealand quartet Barshasketh are two of the more exciting European black metal bands on the scene today. Their most recent albums-Ghost Chants and Ophidian Henosis, respectively-exist somewhere [...]
To completely misappropriate a line from an old Indiana Beach commercial, there’s more then doom in Indianapolis. I know the city has a reputation as a stoner/doom kind of town thanks to bands like The Gates of Slumber and Apostle of Solitude and [...]
To most of the outside world, heavy metal is just a collection of shouts, bangs, and noises played far too loudly by the misfits of society. Maybe that isn’t far from being accurate in some cases, but nothing could be further from the truth when it comes [...]
Spend enough time writing about music and it’s pretty easy to become at least slightly jaded in a “there are no new ideas in metal - everything that can be done has already been done.” And to a certain extent, that really is true [...]
So as Vault Hunters with slightly longer memories will likely remember, I reviewed Young Hunter‘s third full-length Dayhiker right when it came out a few weeks back. I may not have quite known how to describe the album, but I was deeply enamored [...]
If you’re a regular reader of this site, then you know we’ve written about Ohio-based musician Sean Deth and his various projects several times before on these (virtual) pages. There’s a very good reason for that, beyond just the that [...]
