When I was editor at Invisible Oranges , we covered the inaugural performance of something called Wrekmeister Harmonies — an ambitious and artsy project that combined avant-garde film with live music by a black metal/doom ensemble made up of some of Chicago's most notable experimental/metal musicians.
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11:35, no festival is ever a "scalpfest".
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In conversation as well as on record, one doesn't spend much time with Terre Thaemlitz before finding oneself confronted by their assumptions.
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Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know and bassist Darryl Jenifer have conspired to create Fire Burn Babylon Hardcore Hot Sauce.
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Walking around Shibuya, Shinjuku, Asakusa, it's hard not to be impressed by how absolutely excellent at everything the Japanese seem to be.
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Unlike many of its more populous peers, Canada's metallic output falls squarely under the "quality, not quantity" camp, stretching from the outer limits into the Ross Bay cemetery, and stopping in Wendigo country along the way.
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The Booker Prize is awarded to a 'readable' sequel to a Booker-winning historical novel instead of a more deserving stream-of-consciousness, punctuation-indifferent single-paragraph amble.
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Distressingly, the majority of Yakuza reviews still focus heavily on the alchemical influence the Chicago music scene has had on the band – noise rock, jazz, and industrial all writ large in the Windy City corpus – which is not so much erroneous as unfair, a fundamental if indeliberate underselling of what Bruce Lamont and his band mates bring to the table.
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At the start of "Lotus Array", the final stand of Beyul , the latest album by Chicago heavy hybridizers Yakuza , the drums plod through a trance, and the saxophone unfurls an exotic melody.
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Pitchfork's unofficial Show No Mercy CMJ showcase on Saturday (10/20) at 285 Kent featured New York acts Car Bomb , Batillus , Pyrrhon , Primitive Weapons , and Theologian.
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BBG CMJ showcase at Saint Vitus on 10/20 (a measly $5 door fee at the door if you didn't have a CMJ badge), sold-out the venue with an eclectic mix of bands that exemplified "heavy music" in many different ways: the searing post-rock/post-hardcore/black metal of Sannhet , brooding cello loops by Helen Money , crusty metallic-hardcore from Enabler , Am-Rep-y hardcore by Fight Amp , searing bluesy hard rock from Royal Thunder and experi-metal from Chicago's Yakuza (check out our recent interview with Bruce Lamont ).
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"Mladic" and "We Drift Like Worried Fire," the two 20-minute slabs of epicness that make up the meat of Godspeed You!
Read MoreLower East Side venues are hanging up their energy drink-branded vinyl banners, the streets are filling with bright-eyed college students slathered in one-inch badge pins and laminates … it's beginning to look a lot like CMJ week in NYC.
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I've always thought "avant garde metal" is an odd duck micro-niche.
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Converge's eighth album, All We Love We Leave Behind , is out October 9 on Epitaph (with a vinyl edition on vocalist Jacob Bannon's Deathwish Inc. ). AWLWLB follows Axe to Fall , a record that landed at the No. 1 spot of my 2009 year-end list.
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It somehow makes all the sense in the world that Chris Bruni, the proprietor, sole employee and prime mover behind Profound Lore , one of the most prolific labels on today's metal landscape, is also a conservatory trained pianist.
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Sometimes it feels like Japanese pop culture's not-so-secret super power is its ability to corral, amplify and caricature the weirder, cooler aspects of other cultures.
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The Shinsedai Cinema Festival announces 2012 opening and closing night films!
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SXSW kicks off later this week, but once you're done slurping the BBQ sauce off your fingers, pack your backs and head north to Manhattan, as the Tribeca Film Festival is gearing up to unspool in April.
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There's no real sport in arguing the semeticism of David Berman, who named his band the Silver Jews, and very publicly rediscovered Judaism himself after becoming sober around 2004.
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Crustcake, represented by the intrepid Andrew Wilhelm and Van Damned , spent four days in Austin, Texas, at South By Southwest, one of the world's largest, film, interactive and music festivals.
Read MoreBiggest and best metal release day of 2011 so far?
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-Entombed, Eyehategod, Black Breath, Wolfbrigade, and Pentagram at Maryland Deathfest.
Read MoreFor 2010, we decided to do something special as part of our regular end-of-year festivities here at MetalSucks — namely, ask musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year were.
Read MoreBack in August, I got a chance to talk with Yakuza front man Bruce Lamont about all things Yakuza, his band's stellar new album, Of Seismic Consequence (which is a contender for this curmudgeon's year-end "Best Of" list), his upcoming side projects and collaborations, his other fellow musicians from the Windy City, and Yakuza's then not-yet-announced tour with Triptykon and 1349 — a tour that is now under way.
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You might better know Tokyo-born Brighton resident Shige as purveyor of snide earworm electronic experimentation in the guise of DJ Scotch Egg; Drum Eyes, by contrast, is an ever-growing beast, Shige pulling in members of various other bands (a former Boredom here, a Sloath there) to help realise his vision.
Read MoreUK-based Drum Eyes represent one of the stronger proponents of what could be called the next generation of krautrock.
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Wolvhammer was started in late 2008 as an idea between Heath Rave and myself.
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