Tag: post metal

  • Snailking – Storm

    Snailking – Storm

    You know you’ve been listening to this shit for a while when you start seeing bands named after some of your favourite albums. Y’know, like the Polish band Dopesmoker or Dopethrone from Montreal. Hell, there’s even an outfit named after the Truckfighters tune Desert Cruiser—though I guess that one shouldn’t be such a surprise. In…

  • Tidal Arms – Tidal Arms

    Tidal Arms – Tidal Arms

    By Gruesome Greg Although their self-titled is actually the second album from this Brooklyn-based trio, it happens to be their first that I’ve actually heard.  Can I just say props for having a song named “Jelloshotgun”?  I could use one of those… Anyways, what we’ve got here are 10 tracks of angly, jangly, mathy post-metal that…

  • Long Distance Calling: Avoid The Light

    Germany’s Long Distance Calling have created quite the slow-burn of an album with Avoid The Light. The band’s music is often described as a mixture of “post-rock” and “post-metal,” and while listening it’s easy to conjure up comparisons with a group like Godspeed You Black Emperor! but also with the more drawn out and ambient…

  • ISIS: Wavering Radiant

    A couple weeks ago, the world’s most accomplished stoner, multiple gold medallist Michael Phelps, returned to the pool after serving out his suspension for inhaling what, considering his lung capacity, must have been enough weed smoke to lay out the state of Utah.