Tag Archives: Pelican

Metal By Numbers 7/17: Abbath outstrides the charts

Posted by on July 17, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   I’m not always sure what to write about in this little blurb. Sometimes it’s a soapbox, sometimes it’s just typical intro fluff. This week, I decided to look into how many album covers […]

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Metal By Numbers 7/10: Moving futha up in the world

Posted by on July 10, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   No, that’s not a typo in the title. It’s the name of the top debut this week from the Danish/Norwegian/German folk group Heilung. Their music isn’t metal in the traditional sense, but fans […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/26: Baroness strike gold (and grey)

Posted by on June 26, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   There were a lot of boosts in sales this week. It’s interesting how I write “A (number)% drop in sales” so often that when a boost happens I get this odd little beat […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/19: Sales are in motion

Posted by on June 19, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   There’s some bands I feel like I see on here all the time. Others feel less frequent. Most of this has to do with not just album sales, but how widely bands vary […]

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Pelican announce new album ‘Nighttime Stories,’ streaming new song “Midnight and Mescaline”

Posted by on April 15, 2019

2019 is the year of Pelican as the band just keeps revealing new music and content. Last month, the band revealed a reissue for their 2003 album Forever Rebcoming and mentioned the 7” Midnight and Mescaline record store day release. Now the band is streaming the song in it’s entirety and announced new album Nighttime Stories, which is scheduled to drop June […]

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Pelican announces new music and summer tour; releases reissue of “Forever Becoming”

Posted by on February 27, 2019

It’s a big day for Pelican as they announce new music, a reissue and a summer tour. The band has announced that they will be releasing Midnight and Mescaline exclusively on Record Store Day (April 13th, 2019) through Southern Lord Records. This two-song 7″ will be the quartet’s first new music in the past six years. […]

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Watch Isis perform for the first time in eight years at Caleb Scofield tribute show

Posted by on October 15, 2018

The livestream from the West Coast tribute show to the late Cave In, Old Man Gloom, Zozobra bassist Caleb Scofield that took place on Saturday (13th) is still available. A Celebration of the Life & Art of Caleb Scofield was held at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, which featured the return of post metallers […]

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Psycho Las Vegas adds Carcass, Cult of Luna, Oathbreaker, Sumac many more

Posted by on December 19, 2016

After three years as a destination fest in Southern California, the Psycho California Fest became Psycho Las Vegas earlier this year. Giving attendees everyone from stoner legends like Boris and Yob to cool uncle music like Alice Cooper and Blue Oyster Cult in Sin City proved to be a huge success, and 2017’s lineup including […]

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Pelican surprise-release new live album

Posted by on November 22, 2016

Pelican’s intstrumental post-metal is always a rewarding listen, and earlier this year, Belgian fans got to witness them live as they played the Dunk! Festival. The festival was livestreamed, and the organizers gave the band the recordings, which they remixed. They were only planning on releasing the recording on Bandcamp, which they did. However, dunk! is […]

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Pelican faces backlash after suggesting fans donate to ACLU

Posted by on November 15, 2016

If last week’s election proved anything, it’s that America is still vastly divided. While only 55% of eligible voters even bothered showing up at the polls, the number of people voting in Donald Trump as our next president (26.3%) was about as much as those voting for Hillary Clinton (26.5%). Se by getting involved in politics […]

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