New York City is definitely known for being overrun by rats, and you can add Brooklyn psych doom cult Castle Rat to the infestation. This retro-sounding quartet—Riley Pinkerton (vocals/guitar/”Rat Queen”), Franco Vittore (lead guitar/”Count”), Ronnie Lanzilotta III (bass/”Plague Doctor”), Josh Strmic (drums/”The All-Seeing Druid”)—have conjured a… Read More »Video Premiere: Castle Rat – “Cry For Me”
Denver is a hotbed for metal right now—ask us how we know!—and its next export is Our Grief is Thus, the second album from Pagan folk/death metal outfit Oak, Ash & Thorn. As you’ll hear on the song “Auras,” video streaming below, the quartet deal in a… Read More »Video Premiere: Oak, Ash & Thorn – ‘Auras’
– February 13th, 2023 – BAND SHARES THAT A NEW ALBUM IS READY AND ON THE WAY, WITH DETAILS COMING THIS SPRING! Today, COGNITIVE shared the news of an upcoming headlining North American tour with support from Trenchlung! The bone-shattering New Jersey death metal elites… Read More »Cognitive Announce North American Tour!
Where they from? Oakland by way of Indonesia. The Super Bowl was this past weekend. I put $50 on Kansas City, took the over and I lost by ONE GOD DAMN POINT! There is no greater sign that god hates you then losing a parlay… Read More »Blast Worship: AK//47
Seven years after his debut with NCT U, Ten has finally released his first solo album. Talk about delayed gratification! He’s had plenty of solo singles throughout the years, but I can’t believe it took this long for SM Entertainment to give him something more… Read More »Song Review: Ten (WayV) – Nightwalker