Hail and well met once again. We have a good selection of treats to kick your weekend off with tonight. Let’s dive right in. The Metal: Ungesehen’s Unaussprechliches Entsetzen. The Booze: Avery Brewing Company’s El Gose. Continue reading
Donuts & CANTO: Linkin Park, Wolves in the Throne Room, Myrkur and more!
July 21, 2017
Good morning, it’s time to metal. Here’s some news you might have missed from yesterday:
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- Leading off with some sad news: Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington died yesterday of an apparent suicide. He was just 41. Rest in peace.
Album Review: Boris – “Dear”
Boris are back. Boris are ending. Boris have returned to their roots. Boris are not comfortable with the notion they are returning to their roots. Dear is the capstone to an amazing 25+ year career. Dear is not the end. Dear IS the end…What does it matter? It’s the nth album from the Japanese gods of the heavy, and whether it started as a farewell letter and transformed into a celebration, one thing is clear: Dear is another gorgeously thick slab of sound slowly and eternally unwinding itself in new permutations for those of us who have been hooked since the beginning. Continue reading
Album Review: False – “Hunger” (EP)
Every band has to push their creative envelope at some point. Sticking to your guns is a great thing, but making the same album with exactly the same sound and form again and again can lose it’s impact. Sometimes it’s necessary to add elements from other genres of music to take things in a new direction. Sometimes expanded production values are enough to breathe new life into the music. So what do you do if you’re Minneapolis based black metal act False, who’s shortest track length in their entire discography is nine and a half minutes? Why, you record a 7″ of course. And while Hunger shakes the proverbial tree, it enables the band to focus in and deliver some of their best work ever. Continue reading
Interview: Gabe Grosso (Hobbs) of Drug Honkey on “Cloak of Skies,” Guest Appearances and More
Drug Honkey are a doom quartet from Chicago. The band plays a unique mix of doom, death metal and sludge and have released four full length albums since forming in 1999. A couple months ago they released their latest, and fifth full length album, Cloak of Skies via Transcending Obscurity Records. I recently spoke to guitarist Gabe Grosso (Hobbs, guitars) about the album, guest features and more so read on to see what he had to say. Continue reading
