Guitarist Kurt Ballou and vocalist Jacob Bannon formed metalcore outfit Converge in 1990, when they were still in their teens. By 2001, they’d changed the landscape of hardcore and heavy music with Jane Doe, their crucial fourth LP and the first to feature drumming dynamo Ben Koller and blunt-force bassist Nate Newton. Nearly 20 years […]
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Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece
Current musical obsessions of Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak, Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party and Montrose Man, and the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti
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Two Converge-Cave In side projects come to town this weekend
Mutoid Man plays proggy psych-metal on today’s 12 O’Clock Track.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Gnarcissist” is poppy stoner metal from the newest Cave In/Converge team-up
“Gnarcissist” superheavy stoner-pop from some prolific East Coast metalheads.
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12 O’Clock Track: All Pigs Must Die, “The Blessed Void”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “The Blessed Void” from All Pigs Must Die.