Chicago’s Nequient hit the ground running in 2015 with the EP Infinite Regress. By the time of their 2018 full-length debut, Wolves at the Door, they’d solidified into a brutal, versatile metallic-hardcore unit. They’d also established their studio methods and favorite producers (Pete Grossman at Bricktop Recording), and they accumulated some DIY touring experience. The […]
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Everson Poe’s powerful vision focuses the expansive metal of The Night Country
Chicago multi-instrumentalist Mae Shults began self-releasing heavy rock laced with doom metal under the name Everson Poe in 2009. In the ensuing years, she’s moved deeper into metal, amplifying her ambitious, cinematic vision with its grim cacophony and outsize theatricality. Last year’s Grief, for example, closes with “Acceptance,” whose oceanically distorted guitars and minimal, thundering […]
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Mexican Werewolf front man Rick Linus helped Chicago metal feel like a family
Remembering Mexican Werewolf front man Rick Linus through his band’s last album
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Three Beats: The first Thirsty Ear
A new-music festival at the Bottle, plus new albums from death-metal pioneers Master and DJ-producer Tony Trimm