When the Chicago punk band Sludgeworth started in 1989, they were a Screeching Weasel side project. At the time, Sludgeworth singer Dan Schafer played bass and guitar in Screeching Weasel, and drummer Brian McQuaid was also in both bands. (Back then, Dan Schafer was known as Dan Vapid, and Brian McQuaid was Brian Vermin.) Pretty soon, both of t...

The UK's premier stoner/doom/pysych/sludge weekender just got a whole lot heavier

A couple of months ago, I saw the long-running, sludged-out Orlando screamo trio Gillian Carter play a DIY show with Infant Island, Amygdala, and Listless. And let me tell you: That shit ruled. The three members of Gillian Carter have that musical-ESP thing going that you can only get if you’ve been in a band with the same people for a...

Featuring members of Crowning, Itto, Ikaray, Snuffed, Shrivel Up, and Cloud Cruiser, Chicago’s Greed Worm play a harsh, brutal, violently burly form of music they call “NU-DEATH SLUDGE.” This is insanely heavy and volatile stuff, and on their new Hell Is Real EP they’ve laced it with samples implicitly cri...

All Hail The Yeti offer up more hook-laden, Southern-simmered metal from the Hollywood Hills