Promoter Alexi Front began his love affair with Scandinavian metal in the mid-2000s by publishing a zine and running a label. He started the Scorched Tundra festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2011, and five years later he began throwing one in Chicago as well—spearheading a sort of underground-metal sister-cities program. Front is a curator by […]
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Virginia doom quartet Windhand deliver their most hook-driven songs to date on Eternal Return
Doing my home state proud since 2008, Virginia grungy doom quartet Windhand have just released their fourth full-length, Eternal Return (Relapse), which follows their breakout album, 2015’s Grief’s Infernal Flower. It’s their first without founding guitarist Asechiah Bogdan (also of Alabama Thunderpussy), but the band’s no-frills wall of noise fills in the void just fine, […]
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 9/11: Windhand, Next to Normal, and “Wisconessee”
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, September 11
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Best shows to see: Deerhunter, Chvrches
There are plenty of great shows to whet your concert-going appetite the next few days, including Deerhunter, Chvrches, Station to Station, Grant Hart, and Windhand.