This week is a big one for new albums, especially if you like the sounds that electric guitars make when they’re turned up loud. I’m not as besotted with Tame Impala’s new Lonerism as a lot of people seem to be, but the album does a nice job turning ’70s bongwater-psych into a prettily fractal [...]

Oh, hell yeah. Veteran metalcore brain-annihilators Converge return next week with their new album All We Love We Leave Behind, a pared-down effort with no guests and no, like, mercy. We’ve heard the early tracks “Aimless Arrow” and “Shame In The Way,” and now the entire glorious pummeling 46-min...

Ferocious hardcore cult heroes Converge release their new album All We Love We Leave Behind next month, and I, for one, cannot wait to hear the thing. We’ve already seen the video for leadoff single “Aimless Arrow,” and now we’ve got a new song in the form of the merciless, complex two-minute banger &#...

Kurt Ballou tells NME that their eighth studio album is 'a lot more focused'

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 [...]