If the cover of an album is a naked lady wearing an animal skull, I think that you can expect some serious distort and...

One of my favorite left-field answers to the dreaded “what kind of music do you listen to” question is “caveman music.” It gets a...

I've often compared stoner metal to pizza because it's really hard to do poorly. When it's good, it's the most incredible thing on Earth...

A good live album is more than just a document of a band's performance. It should do more than just capture the instrumentation and...

When I had the pleasure of interviewing vocalist Hideki Fukasawa and drummer Junji Narita of Japanese doom heavyweights Church of Misery at last year's Maryland Deathfest,...

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...

Stoner metal needs good riffs to survive, moreso than any other genre of metal. This is equally true if it's either the dank and...

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