A great performance of dark, sludgy post-metal.

Post-metal, similar to its sonic cousins post-rock, post-hardcore, and post-punk, has always been about creating mood and atmosphere. In the early 90s, bands like...

Death metal has always been a genre that easily lends itself to experimentation, and so it has produced some of the most exciting sounds...

I feel like atmospheric sludge went into a slump almost as soon as it started to blossom. There are groups like Isis, who can...

Some bands are content with finding their niche and spending their entire careers in it. They might write the same song every time, but...

When I first received Shakhtyor's debut EP from my dear editor, we were at first struck by how much the band's name sounded like...

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 love sludge metal simply because there's so many different ways you can pull it off. There's the angular dissonance of an act like Ramesses,...

The time has come once again for one of the most hallowed names in metal to rear their heads and spit out a dark,...

“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.” - Socrates Any band that takes their name from...