by Chip McCabe | Oct 9, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
The metal world sometimes tends to get hung up on geographic locales when it comes to certain styles of music. For example, when discussing black metal or doom, Texas probably isn’t the first place anyone generally thinks of, right? Well the thinking about...
by Chip McCabe | Sep 25, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
There are relatively few metal bands left in this great big world who have been consistently making music since the early 1990s. There are even fewer bands who can say that they’ve been making consistently good music since the early 1990s. One of those bands is...
by Chip McCabe | Sep 11, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Labeling something “atmospheric” has become, over the last two decades, a favorite device of metal music writers and bloggers alike. Everything with a twinge of doom, with a snifter of black metal, with pinch of post-metal bombast gets the...
by Chip McCabe | Jul 31, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
What do you get when you take two Molotov cocktails built out of cheap beer and whiskey bottles, thrown out of an unmarked van barreling down a dusty old highway at about 100 miles per hour? You get the split release from two doom metal/stoner rock/sludge acts about...
by Chip McCabe | Jun 5, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Sophomore slumps are a real thing and they are an absolute bitch. You’ve seen this play out a million times before. Band X puts out a killer debut, totally catches you off guard even, an suddenly they are in discussions as one of your new favorite bands. Then...