“You live on in me.”
Sounds innocent enough. Downright heartwarming, actually. It’s the sort of sentiment that, in the wrong hands, can end up sappy. But fans of Michael Gira know that, whether as the unsettling and violent Swans or the unsettling and rootsy Angels of Light, he will never descend into maudlin […]

I know this happened over three months ago, but I just found this video. Here, in all it’s glory, is 77 Boadrum.
For the uninitiated, I recommend getting yourself acquainted with the Boredoms. To fully explain the way these Japanese noise-rock geniuses manipulate sound into a sonic mind-fuck of an aural experience is beyond […]

Metal is really fun. Where else can grown men and women bang on instruments, scream at the top of their lungs, and sing about dragons and werewolves and be taken seriously? Metal albums, that’s where. For me, the metal stereotype was represented by those quiet kids in high school that […]