Unearthly Trance

Unearthly Trance at their last NYC show? (more by Jonathan McPhail) After returning from a quake/tsunami-ravaged Japan where they toured with High on Fire & Melvins (all bands are OK), preceeded by an Australian tour with Monarch & Dark Castle, NYC’s Unearthly Trance have called it quits…

Sweet Cobra had a helluva welcome at their very first NYC appearance on February 12th. A few short moments after the Chicago band took the Union Pool stage, the show sold out…

Doom were an English crust punk band from Birmingham, England, whose first, influental lineup were together from 1987 to 1990. Despite its short existence, the band is considered pivotal in the rise of crust punk, a style within the punk rock subgenre that fuses extreme metal with anarcho-punk…

DOWNLOAD: Thou – “By Endurance We Conquer” (MP3) Sleep at Brooklyn Masonic Temple (more) Lists are very subjective. A “best of” list is always an amalgam of personal experiences – that fateful moment when you press “Play” for the first time, in addition to a grade of excellent songwriting…

Unearthly Trance (who we recently interviewed) celebrated the unveiling of V at Union Pool on 9/29 as part of a kickoff to a string of dates with Swedish doom killers SUMA who were playing their first-ever US show…

DOWNLOAD: Unearthly Trance – “The Horsemen Arrive In The Night” (MP3) Ryan Lipynsky on stage w/ Unearthly Trance (more by Markus Shaffer) Unearthly Trance may be celebrating their new LP V TODAY (9/28) via Relapse Records (same day/label as Black Anvil’s Triumvirate), but it definitely ain’t all rays of sunshine…

words & Sleep @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple Monday night Back before Boris and Sunn O))) took over the place, Sleep played their first of two NYC shows at Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Monday night, Labor Day (9/6)…

pics & , Archon pics Unearthly Trance Unearthly Trance headlined a night of doom-y destruction at The Charleston with the ridiculous Coffinworm, along with Archon (who will play Acheron with Wolvserpent) and Syphilitic Lust…

Matt Pike of Sleep, on stage with High On Fire (more by Markus Shaffer) I get my fair share of emails, but lately the number regarding a single issue has trumped all others: the sold-out Sleep show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple on 9/8…

Kim Kelly, no longer a Philadelphian, made the jump to the concrete jungle known as NYC in between her stints on tour with Zoroaster (check out her tour diary part 1 and part 2) and upcoming van-adventures…