Deftones' Chino And Isis Members Form Palms was a top 12 rock story of April 2012

Sufjan Stevens dropped 59 songs’ worth of existential Christmas crisis on the world this week in the form of a five-disc collection called Silver & Gold. The sprawling set is Sufjan’s attempt to reconcile the conflict he feels between the sanctity that supposedly defines the holiday and the vapid consumerism that has...

Aaron Turner is in the business of breaking hearts these days. In 2101, he split up Isis, one of the most groundbreaking metal bands of the last decade. This year, he shut down his label, Hydra Head Records, which has been inarguably the best American metal label since Roadrunner was running off classic after classic [...]

Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler has spoken in length about the shocking arrest and incarceration of singer Randy Blythe when the band headed out to the Czech Republic earlier this year.

It would be difficult to overstate the impact made by Hydra Head Records, the metal label founded in 1993 by Aaron Turner (otherwise best known as the singer for Isis). The label has released music by many of the genre’s most forward-thinking artists, from Neurosis to Converge to Sunn O))) to Xasthur to Torche to [...]