Bastard Sapling

Texas black metal boundary-pushers Absu brought their tour to NYC for a show at Saint Vitus on April 28. They were joined by Bastard Sapling (which features members of Inter Arma) and Imperial Triumphant, and we've got pictures of the show in this post...

Also playing Toronto's Modified Ghost Festival with Dillinger Escape Plan, Cattle Decapitation, Suffocation, Misery Index, Dead Cross & more

Bastard Sapling released an absolute burner last month with their second album, Instinct Is Forever, which you can stream in full below. The USBMers stretched out with weighty and well-produced songs that get raw with their lyrical angle, examining Mike Paparo's struggles with depression...

Electric Wizard at MDF 2012 (More by Fred Pessaro) UK doomers Electric Wizard announced a new album. This one is called Time to Die and the title plays into a theme, according to singer/guitarist Jus Oborn: "All of our albums in the past have had a theme -- revenge, drugs, black magick -- and the theme of this one is death...

Ashencult at Saint Vitus, 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro) Time is ticking down before Maryland Deathfest 2014, but as ever in the music world, festival lineups are subject to change until the bands actually hit the stage...

The Body at The Acheron, June 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro) As you may know, the Gilead Media Fest is happening in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on July 18 - 20 and has announced a number of additions to what was an already loaded lineup...

Inter Arma @ Hopscotch 2013 (more. Gilead Media label-mates Ash Borer, Mutilation Rites (who play Saint Vitus December 12 with Revenge), Inter Arma (who embark on a tour with Black Tusk soon that hits Saint Vitus on October 30), Thou and more will lead what is already a doozy of a lineup...

Cough at Bell House, May 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) The second annual Martyrdoom festival expands from one day to four this year, kicking off tomorrow (June 27) with a pre-festival show at Saint Vitus with Satanic Goat Ritual, Manticore, Krieg and Crypter (tickets)...

Bastard Sapling, which features members of Inter Arma (who have a new LP coming), Celebrity Murders, CR, and other bands, will emerge from their cave in Richmond to play a string of East Coast dates this weekend with Ashencult...

Bastard Sapling at The Charleston, April 2010 (more by Samantha Marble) Bastard Sapling is another one in a long line of young and promising bands from Richmond, VA...