Rival Consoles at the Empty Bottle and more goings-on 5/14-5/17.
Tag: Mutoid Man
Spacey metal trio Mutoid Man shreds a little less and leans into pop in its latest music
When Mutoid Man formed in 2012 it seemed its goal was simply to shred; and shred it did. Originally conceived as the two-piece of Stephen Brodsky of prog-rock-space-metal act Cave In on guitar and vocals and Ben Koller of obtuse artcore legends Converge on drums, Mutoid Man took the most over-the-top elements of their other […]
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
Mutoid Man is what happens when hardcore savants need to get out the metal
I like to imagine guitarist-vocalist Stephen Brodsky of Cave In and drummer Ben Koller of Converge—each an integral part of the early 2000s hardcore scene—shooting the breeze one afternoon about Robert Fripp side projects and figuring, what the hell, why not get together and jam at some point? Thing is . . . when you’re […]
Two Converge-Cave In side projects come to town this weekend
Mutoid Man plays proggy psych-metal on today’s 12 O’Clock Track.
Black Flag’s not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews
Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla’s house-party jams, Last False Hope’s steel-toed bluegrass, and 14 more records reviewed.
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.