Metalcore supergroup Old Man Gloom have often fallen silent for years at a stretch, but for two decades now they’ve occasionally emerged from the depths with an offering of their signature celestial sludge. This summer they’re delivering new material as a pair of albums, an approach they’ve used twice before (with Seminar II and Seminar […]
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Death metal supergroup Umbra Vitae blend catharsis and fun on Shadow of Life
The beauty of musical collaboration is that you can never totally anticipate what will happen, even when the people coming together have established aesthetics of their own. Some groups devise a concept and never stray from it, while others incorporate unexpected twists and turns—and Boston postmetal project Wear Your Wounds (started by Converge front man […]
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Cave In’s Final Transmission is a tribute to late bassist Caleb Scofield, their heart and soul
The winding story of Boston band Cave In is full of massive triumphs and heartbreaking pratfalls, and they’ve kept on trucking no matter what comes their way. Formed in 1995 as an extreme metalcore band, Cave In debuted in 1998 with Until Your Heart Stops, whose layers of corrosive vocals, dual guitar shredding, and unrelenting […]
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Metalcore masters Converge curate a night of live music and art for House of Vans
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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Nikki Hartel of Audiotree on a new way to fill out your Eurythmics collection
Current musical obsessions of Nikki Hartel of Audiotree, Mike Gebel of the Empty Bottle, and Luca Cimarusti of the Reader
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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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Touche Amore set the standard for modern melodic hardcore
Touche Amore’s new Stage Four combines furious energy with earnestness, curiosity, and introspection.
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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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‘Predators’ is the heavy-as-hell return of experimental hardcore supergroup Old Man Gloom
A new track from the heavy metal team.
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12 O’Clock Track: The gravel and brawn of Castles’ “Palm Reader”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Palm Reader” from Castles’ newest album, Fiction or Truth?.
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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: Kvelertak’s thick black ‘n’ roll on “Bruane Brenn”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Kvelertak’s “Bruane Brenn,” off their upcoming albume Meir
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A Duran Duran-loving metalhead, a debut album almost 20 years in the making, and more on the B Side
A long-in-the-making jazz career, experimental music at the MCA, obscure radio-friendly rock, and more
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12 O’Clock Track: Converge, “Aimless Arrow”
“Aimless Arrow” is the lead single from Converge’s upcoming All We Love We Leave Behind