Band Bios // Sunn O)))
Associated Entries: Earth, Khanate [nextpage title=”Biography” ] Much like their Southern Lord labelmates Khanate Sunn O))) represent a newer breed of doom/drone metal bands. Although not nearly as noisy/confrontional as …
Jesus Lizard Reunion
Main Entry: Jesus Lizard / Scratch Acid According to various websites, Jesus Lizard are going to play at All Tomorrow Parties festival in 2009. Here’s official press release: All Tomorrow’s …
Label Profile – Man’s Ruin Records
Empty Pleasures and Desperate Measures since 1994. Now-defunct Californian label Man’s Ruin Records was founded by graphic artist Frank Kozik in 1994. Its first release was “Delta 6″ by Experimental …
Artist Profile – James Plotkin
Guitarist/bassist James Plotkin first came onto the music scene with his band Old Lady Drivers (also known as OLD), a curious little band that started out as a noisy grindcore …
Band Profile – Ulver
Ulver is obviously not a black metal band and does not wish to be stigmatized as such. We acknowledge the relation of part I & III of the Trilogie (Bergtatt …
Band Profile – Isis
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] With the success/critical acclaim that they achieved, Boston, MA (and, currently, Los Angeles) based Isis rushed in the era of acceptance of bands that combined ferocity of …
Band Profile – Cutthroats 9
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] By the mid 90s, New York band Unsane significantly raised their profile when MTV started playing a video for their song “Scrape” on a regular basis. At …
Band Profile – Slint
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Slint is/was one of the bands whose popularity grew immensely after their break-up, despite the fact that the band released only two full-lengths and an EP (released …
Band Profile – Rapeman
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Controversially named Rapeman was an extremely short-lived band formed in the late 80s by Steve Albini’s after the break-up of Big Black. Their name was based on …
Covers – Weird, Wonderful and Downright Odd
Just like tribute albums, covers are a very special topic – some bands do nothing but copy the original note-for-note, while others are capable of transforming somebody else’s song into …