Old Iron is a Seattle-based metal trio that packs a wicked punch! The band will release their sophomore LP Lupus Metallorum via Good to Die Records on August 18th, and it comes laced with references to “the Devil’s interval,” alchemy, and serious psychedelics. The band’s guitarist/vocalist Jesse Roberts explains: “There was never any intended theme, but in hindsight, half of […]

Melvins released their 2xLP A Walk With Love & Death this month via Ipecac Recordings. The double album features Death, a proper Melvins’ release, and Love, the score to Jesse Nieminen‘s short film, A Walk With Love & Death. The band is currently on a massive North American tour and returned to the Pacific Northwest last night to play a […]

Chelsea Wolfe‘s track “16 Psyche” is off her upcoming LP Hiss Spun due out September 22nd on Sargent House. Recorded by Kurt Ballou (Converge) in Salem, Massachusetts this past Winter, Wolfe’s sixth full-length also features guitar work from Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age, Failure) as well as a guest appearance from Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, SUMAC) […]

Gaytheist premiered their “Let’s Get Astrophysical” track this week via Decibel. The Portland-based metal trio is readying their Let’s Jam Again Soon LP for release on June 16th via Seattle’s Good to Die Records, and this new listen in on the upcoming album is a seriously heavy affair. Cavernous low-end opens the track before it quickly takes a downward death-spiral […]

True Widow Live @ The Highline In Seattle: True Widow turned in a heavy and haunting set last night at The Highline in Seattle, WA. The Texas-based trio played to a packed house and the band did not disappoint the rapt audience delivering plenty of hefty but melodic material from their new LP Avvolgere out now on Relapse Records. Live […]

Watch True Widow’s “F.W.T.S: L.T.M.” Video: Texas stone-gaze trio True Widow released their killer LP Avvolgere on Relapse Records this September, and today we watch the band’s new video for the album track, “F.W.T.S: L.T.M.“. Combining shots of stunning vistas that evoke the wildness of the West, with closeups of human faces and forms–often the band’s own–the vast ruggedness of […]

Watch Zig Zags “They Came For Us” Video: “Thirty-nine to beam up”. LA thrash trio Zig Zags delve into the twisted cult world of Heavens Gate in this mega-creepy new video for their track, “They Came For Us“. Jessica Hundley returns to do the directing here and she combines news reel and documentary footage of the millenarian group with shots […]