Set and Setting

Set and Setting releasing 'Tabula Rasa' (stream "Wandering Tribulation")

Florida heavy post-rockers Set and Setting are following 2017’s Reflectionless with a new album, Tabula Rasa, in October via Pelagic, and the new song finds time for Isis-style riffs, Pink Floyd worship, and more…

Set and Setting releasing 'Reflectionless' (stream "...The Mirrored Self")

Heavy post-rockers Set and Setting are back with their third album and a new seven-plus minute single.

The Sword's 'High Country' out now (win an LP bundle!) +++ NYC shows this week from Atlas Moth, AC/DC, Earth & more

This past Friday, retro riffers The Sword released their new album High Country on Razor & Tie. You can pick it up on iTunes, and we’re also giving away an album bundle that features one copy on Double Black Vinyl, on CD copy, and one High Country Album Art T…

So Hideous releasing 'Laurestine,' touring w/ Set and Setting (dates & "Yesteryear" song stream)

NYC’s So Hideous will follow Last Poem/First Light with their sophomore album, Laurestine, on October 16 via Prosthetic. They recorded it with producer Dean Baltulonis (Modern Life Is War, Give Up The Ghost, The Hold Steady) and like on their debut, they were accompanied by orchestral arrangements courtesy of The FIrst Light Orchestra, which now has increased its size to 30 memb…

The Fest announces 2015 lineup (Desaparecidos, Menzingers, mewithoutYou, Jazz June, Beach Slang, Restorations, more)

Gainesville’s annual punk festival The Fest returns in 2015 for its 14th year (hence Fest 14) from October 30 to November 1, and like in previous years, a handful of the bands play Pre-Fest in Little Ybor from October 28…

Set and Setting touring this month (dates & LP stream)

Florida instrumentalists Set and Setting signed to Prosthetic Records last year and released the excellent A Vivid Memory on the label in September…

The Heavy Lowdown: Slayer, Iron Maiden, Blake Judd, YOB, Roadburn 2015 lineup, Opeth, weekend shows & more

The above pic was posted on Slayer‘s Instagram earlier in the week. Does it herald, as many expect, a new Slayer album in 2015? Is it the genesis of their pivotal post-Hanneman/Lombardo/Rubin album…

Mouth of the Architect & Set and Setting touring together in August (dates & streams)

Atmospheric post-metallers Mouth of the Architect will be heading out on the road this August with the moody instrumental metal group Set and Setting…

inaugural Southern Darkness Fest announced (Pelican, Black Tusk, Phobia, Sannhet, Maruta, Weekend Nachos & more)

Pelican at the Invisible Oranges CMJ Showcase, 2013 (more by Caroline Harrison) While North America will probably never be able to give the EU a run for its money when it comes to huge blowout metal festivals in the Wacken or Roadburn vein, the lands on this side of the Atlantic are hosting an increasing number of smaller but more targeted (and thereby more appealing, if you ask me) shindigs…

Johnny Beach's birthday party @ Mercury Lounge

MERCURY LOUNGE, NYC | MAY 28, 2006 (cred) The schedule for this past Sunday night (May 28, 2006) at Mercury Lounge reads “CLOSED FOR PRIVATE EVENT”…