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The Exile of Satan from Heavy Metal Design: the art of Seldon Hunt, Stephen O’Malley & Aaron Turner

Posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Sunn O))) Monolith's & Dimensions Cover

Those “heavy metal” bands that debuted during that first palmy MTV generation sound like nontoxic pop compared to today’s vast offerings of subaltern metal genres, where intricate is the new heavy, and glacially slow is far more radical than hyperfast. Metal has evolved in such diverse directions—drawing from and crossing over with punk, math rock, noise, and avant-garde musical threads—that perhaps the real surprise is how audiences who never thought of themselves as metalheads are now exploring bands with names like Baroness, Gojira, Isis, and SUNN O))).

Read more at The Exile of Satan from Heavy Metal Design.

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We need more records: Vinyl in the Digital Age: Straight From the Horse’s Mouth, Talking to Bands

Posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Noisecreep: Vinyl records should have been something dead and buried when the digital age took its big thick grasp, as the number one music store in the country became a digital one. But the truth is, vinyl might be a driving force, helping keep the aching music ...read more

CraveOnline reviews Greymachine’s Disconnected

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

On the exact opposite end of the scale are the Greymachine and their new album Disconnected which is a brutal and ugly album. How ugly? Imagine a low flying plane cruising over the remnants of a burned out city filled with desperate people killing each other for basic survival. Take ...read more

Khanate and Isis members form Jodis; debut album announced

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

Jodis is the new band between Khanate’s James Plotkin, Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters), and Tim Wyskida (ex-Khanate, Blind Idiot God).
James Plotkin describes the sound of Jodis as “expansive, tonal, minimal, or all of the above. It has been described to me as a more relaxed Khanate, ...read more

Pitchfork news: Jesu + Isis = Greymachine

Posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Basic physics:  When the frontmen of two of the heaviest bands in the world get together, they are guaranteed to make something extremely fucking heavy.
Jesu mastermind and former Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick and Isis leader Aaron Turner have teamed up to form Greymachine, along with fellow Jesu / Godflesh member ...read more

Pitchfork rates Isis' Wavering Radiant: 8.5

Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Boston-to-Los Angeles transplants Isis have maintained their position in the vanguard of post-metal by consistently exploding the idiomatic strictures that have defined heavy music with each release –the same goes for the band’s latest album, Wavering Radiant. Please read what Pitchfork.com has to say about the album:
Pin a single label, ...read more