Apostle of Solitude

Happy second day of Spring! This Nor'Easter that has hit NYC area could dump up to a foot of wet, slushy snow on the city and that means some of tonight's shows are being postponed or canceled...

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 ...

UPDATE: It's true, and it's called Orion Music & More Metallica @ Yankee Stadium in 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Metallica sent out a "Save the Date" on Friday...

, Cough Slow Southern Steel blew into town on a typhoon-like Saturday night (8/13), bringing with it late night performances from Cough (with special guest/film director CT on vocals...

Everyone, I have some bad news: due to a serious illness in his family, Jason has had to go to Utah for a couple of weeks, and we have to drop off SHoD XI and the Slow Southern Steel premiere in NYC...

Hull at The Studio at Webster Hall (more by Markus Shaffer) Now that they're finished beating down The Studio at Webster Hall with their 100db riffs, Hull will headline Ace of Clubs TONIGHT (7/20) as the band teams up with Iron Tongue (featuring CT and Reid of Rwake), The Dirty Streets and Flaming Tusk...

DOWNLOAD: Coffins - "Black Fog of Burning Flesh" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Coliseum - "Everything To Everyone" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Suma - "Headwound" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dispirit - "Bitumen Amnii" (MP3 Excerpt) DOWNLOAD: Dispirit - "Ixtab's Lure" (MP3 Excerpt) DOWNLOAD: Leng Tch'e - "Wirehead Imbeciles" (MP3 Excerpt) DOWNLOAD: Thou - tracks from Dwell in the Darkness of Thought and Drink the Poison of Life EP Split (rar) DOWNLOAD: Moloch - "Dry Cough" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Ghast - "Crawl, Blighted and Afraid" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fistula - "The Ones That Got Away" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Aun - "Drainbow" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Thou - tracks from Tears That Soak A Callous Heart Split (rar) DOWNLOAD: Ramesses - "Khali Mist" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Endless Blockade - "Clean & Prone" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Masakari - "XVI Rapid Dominance" (MP3) Thou at Scion Rock Fest (more by Christopher Mumma) The grotesquely prolific Thou is forever on the move, and in addition to their out-now Baton Rouge, You Have Much To Answer For EP and the upcoming studio LP Summit due in July on GIlead Media (CD) and Southern Lord (Vinyl), the band has a pair of splits on deck...