As Conan have been proving since 2006, not everything from Liverpool is about gorgeous football (Liverpool FC) or the "Mersey Beat" (which gave the world The...

One-man drone mystic Goryl is a figure whose music conjures arresting images of occult magic, shaman priests, and arcane voodoo rites. Although it isn't...

It's easy to think that post-metal's jumped the shark. Like post-rock before it, it almost seems to have become too formulaic. The build-climax-release formula...

I always love it when bands strip their formula down to the bare essentials. When it's done right, the results can be some of...

In a way, the legendary Dopesmoker was almost a prophetic vision of what the two now-legendary post-Sleep projects would look like. On the one...

So I’m back from my hiatus to find my fellow Metal Blast-ers have had kind of a time of it. Jon had the dubious...

Editor's Note: This is finals week, as all our students in the audience are well aware. Regrettably, Sam needed to go on temporary hiatus...

It seems that France has quite the underground sludge/doom scene, if Love Sex Machine and Monarch are anything to go by. Formed in 2002, Monarch has distinguished...

If you're a fan of drone metal at all, loving Earth is mandatory. On their Extra-Capsular Extraction EP and their legendary full-length debut Earth 2, Dylan Carlson...