Muziktology
"MUSIQUE AVANT TOUTE CHOSE"
Having just returned from an extensive European jaunt, Brooklyn-based avant noir trio SANNHET are preparing to embark on a U.S. tour in the next two weeks. Today, in anticipation of the tour, the band has unveiled a never-before-seen music video for the sprawling, expansive single “Fernbeds.” The song appears on the band’s most recent full-length So Numb, which was released last year via Profound Lore.
Cold Cave recently announced their new 4-song E.P. You & Me & Infinity and today, it’s streaming in full via Bandcamp amd is available digitally worldwide.
Ruminant progressive doom quartet Pallbearer recently premiered a new track entitled 'Dropout' as the 53rd installment of the Adult Swim Singles Program. The song, which is available digitally today, represents a subtle expansion of the singular doom-prog metal sound the quartet is known for.
What is your idea of perfect happiness? A fireplace, a Juno-60, a bunch of recorded VHS with white tape full of crossings out. Eventually a NES. My mother own a place like this. We composed out there. What is your most marked characteristic? Our red dot eye. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Our...
ust over a half-decade since their self-titled debut, Split Cranium have resurfaced with the beat grinding, tongue-lashing I’m The Devil and I’m OK LP. Following up the sonic blitzkrieg of their first single “Evil Hands,” the crust/metal/punk project has dropped a video for the vitriolic d-beat scourge “Ingurgitated Liquids.” Watch the video in full via Metal Sucks today (or directly on YouTube).
Genre-defying metal titans Pallbearer are undoubtedly road warriors, and they will continue to uphold that titled with their forthcoming North American tour dates. Along with a freshly announced batch of headlining gigs, the group is gearing up to support Obituary on an expansive U.S. tour in the coming months.
North Carolina riff-rockers ASG re-emerge with their sixth-full length and first new album in five years, Survive Sunrise, due out June 15 on CD/2xLP/Digital via Relapse Records. Hear the opening, title-track “Survive Sunrise” via Loudwire (or directly on YouTube).
Listen to Dylan Carlson’s hypnotic new track from ‘Conquistador,’ out April 27 from Sargent House Additional U.S. shows announced in July and August, appearing on select dates with Sleep, Kurt Vile & The Violators, and Marry Lattimore.
What are the actual steps that you take when you are creating? Do you need to enter or go to a certain setting in order to get creative? Oh, no. Ideas don’t wait for your mood or favorite creative set up. Sometimes they come to me when I’m on the street, or when I’m making love, or when I protest, or when I just smoke a cigarette out on the balcony… I try not to write them down on the spot, but rather to keep’em in mind and play them on repeat there until I go to rehearsal and show them to the boys…
What do you consider your greatest achievement? What is your greatest fear? I haven't achieved it yet. Being too old to achieve it.