Human Bodies — Demo XXMV
Local wreckers Human Bodies are currently out on the road, taking their frenetic brand of punk-influenced black metal on a sprawling 35-date…
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Sigh — Graveward
Ten albums deep into their illustrious career, Japanese avant-black-metal crew Sigh continue to surprise and confound. While their earliest efforts were in…
Scorched Ear 2 @ Cambridge Elks Lodge
Stopples were mandatory tonight. Opening the mini-fest was Negative One, a band containing Mr. Boston Hassle himself Sam Potrykus. They were led…
News and Nods, July 2015
GRCB City Feed Community Day 7/2 & SUMMER SESH SHOWCASE 7/25! Do you know the next Siouxsie? The next Joan? Then check…
Devil Worshipper — “Into Radiation Wave”
This is what I want to be hearing from “rock” bands in 2015. Cosmic downer biker metal. Out on the highway, but…
Mastery — VALIS
VALIS. The vast, active living-intelligence system which Phillip K Dick claimed telepathically downloaded a massive store of occult information directly into his…
Thisclose — Chapter lll
Stoke-On-Trent (that’s in Scotland) is not known as a hotbed for much of anything musically, but then again, maybe I’m not in…
Cloak — Succumb
Cloak are a very new four-piece wrecking crew out of San Francisco who play a raging combination of black metal and old-school…
The Body & Thou — You, Whom I Have Always Hated
When The Body and Thou stopped at Cuisine en Locale in Somerville last year in support of their collaborative Released from Love…
Venom — From the Very Depths
Fourteen albums into their career, UK metal legends VENOM are clearly no longer releasing music as revelatory or influential as the records they…
Ramming Speed’s Jonah Livingston and his 2014 FAVORITES
JONAH LIVINGSTON. DIY HERO. METALHEAD. BOSTON onto RICHMOND. LEGEND. – Dan Shea Ramming Speed’s Jonah Livingston recaps some of his 2014 favorites…
HUMAN BODIES – NO LIFE
On No Life, demoniac local trio HUMAN BODIES follow up on their initial demo with a six song, twelve minute gut punch…
