Posted by Chip McCabe on October 11, 2013
Black metal has come a long, long way since the bullet belts and corpse paint of the early 90’s. Sure there are still a ton of bands that carry the flag of “true” or “kvlt” black metal. There are also bands that are taking the genre and stretching it like a rubber band to see […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on July 1, 2013
Let us not mince words here. Lycus, hailing from Oakland, CA, are a doom band. If you want to get cute and call them “funeral doom” that would be completely acceptable. But make no mistake that if you were to look up “doom” in Noah Webster’s lasting gift to mankind that a picture of the […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on April 26, 2013
If you think about it, Death Metal is a pretty broad term covering hundreds of loosely connected bands. Growled or gurgled or screamed vocals over the top of blast beats and shredding guitars. That about sums it up right? Only to the untrained ear. But even to the untrained ear every now and then there […]
