Kings Destroy

SAVAK’s new album Cut-Ups is out this month and they’re currently on tour with Pinback.

This Helmet tribute album is coming out soon. In the meantime, stream two of its great tracks.

I’m pretty sure weed isn’t legal in New York yet, but nobody told the crowd in Saint Vitus as Bongzilla took the stage. The sickly sweet stench filled the room, mingling with the familiar stale beer/body odor scent at once both familiar and gross…

All the heavy stuff you’ll need at SXSW.

Stoner doomers Bongzilla made their return (again) earlier this year, and they’ve continued to stay active. Now they announced a pretty extensive tour for 2016 with great support: Black Cobra and Lo-Pan are all dates, and varying legs with Against the Grain and Kings …

As a young band, Weedeater plied their trade touring. They logged countless hours on the road, and it’s that work ethic centered around bringing the riffs to the people that continues to guide the latest version of the group, one that features former Zoroaster bassist Travis Owen taking over behind the kit after Kirkum’s departure…

New Bedford, MA metal trio Elder recently put out their third album, Lore, on Armageddon Shop. With five tracks that all pass or near the ten-minute mark, it’s the kind of classic doom with endlessly catchy riffs and howling clean-sung vocals that fans of the recent Pallbearer and Crypt Sermon albums (or you know, like, actual classic doom albums) need to check …

Whatever they played, I’m sure I’d have been into it, but having watched them play full-album sets previously for The Great Cessation, 2005’s The Unreal Never Lived and 2003’s Catharsis, I’m glad to be able to put Clearing the Path to Ascend in that category as well…

Doom legends Pentagram brought their tour with Bang and Kings Destroy to NYC last Saturday (11/1), where they played at Gramercy Theatre. Making this one doubly cool, it was one of two dates on the tour where they were joined by flute-bearing doomers Blood Ceremony…