Iowa psychedelic sludge trio Druids will release their fourth album, Shadow Work, on June 3 via Pelagic Records (pre-order). The album title is a reference to the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst ...

Messiahvore is loud as hell. The Denver sludge band thoroughly enjoys building a “wall of sound” at concerts, says bassist Jenn McCrorery. Her playing, paired with that of her husband, Bart McCrorey ...

While never especially prolific in either output or appearances, area sludge-metal band Hollow Leg have nonetheless earned a premier reputation in the Florida heavy underground through their ...

Forget what you think you know about heavy metal and any of its various proliferations — thrash, doom, sludge, etc. For me, that’s an easy ask. As I told Brittany Fugate, co-lead vocalist for the ...

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Friend-of-SOTC Stelios Phili (who’s already got a band, unfortunately, or we would try and make him do this) spotted a musicians-wanted flier on Bowery and Fourth ...

For its 2019 edition, Roadburn, a Netherlands music festival dedicated to heavy and underground music, named Thou its artist-in-residence, giving the Louisiana-based sludge band several prominent sets ...

GX1000 just dropped a new edit titled "Dystopia" featuring Zack Krull, Dillon Krull, Jeff Carlyle, Rob Bootes and Matt Finley, and it's jam-packed with that classic SF street skateboarding rawness ...

Down with garage rock; I’ve decided that my Pebbles is The Seventies Sampler, a disc accompanying Canadian critic Martin Popoff’s latest book, The Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal—Vol. I: The ...

Once upon a time, Savannah was the mecca of “sludge” metal. Bands like Kylesa, Baroness and Black Tusk were popping up rapidly and they seemed molded by the marshes, Spanish moss and patched in tabby, ...