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Home » Mutoid Man

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The film Hitler’s Hollywood and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

by Steve Heisler May 14, 2018August 18, 2021

Rival Consoles at the Empty Bottle and more goings-on 5/14-5/17.

Posted inMusic

Spacey metal trio Mutoid Man shreds a little less and leans into pop in its latest music

by Luca Cimarusti May 3, 2018August 18, 2021

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 […]

Posted inMusic

Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece

by Luca Cimarusti June 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak, Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party and Montrose Man, and the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti

Posted inMusic

Mutoid Man is what happens when hardcore savants need to get out the metal

by Kevin Warwick June 1, 2017August 18, 2021

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 […]

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Two Converge-Cave In side projects come to town this weekend

by Luca Cimarusti September 4, 2015August 18, 2021

Mutoid Man plays proggy psych-metal on today’s 12 O’Clock Track.

Posted inMusic

Black Flag’s not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews

by Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Bill Meyer, David Whiteis, Monica Kendrick, Kim Kelly and Luca Cimarusti December 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla’s house-party jams, Last False Hope’s steel-toed bluegrass, and 14 more records reviewed.

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12 O’Clock Track: “Gnarcissist” is poppy stoner metal from the newest Cave In/Converge team-up

by Luca Cimarusti September 27, 2013August 19, 2021

“Gnarcissist” superheavy stoner-pop from some prolific East Coast metalheads.

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