Belus

words & A blackened crust band. An updated NWOBHM band. A poppy street-punk band. A blackened thrash band. A slow crusty doom band, and a traditional doom band with female vocals...

Let it be known, Batillus was officially the heaviest band in Brooklyn on Saturday night (4/23). The band's earth-shaking volume forced a premature ending to their record release set at Union Pool due to a "neighbor's noise complaint"...

DOWNLOAD: Loss - "An Ill Body Seats My Sinking Sight" (MP3) Sabbath Assembly at Roadburn 2011 (more by Stefan Raduta) The previously discussed Ghost show at The Studio at Webster Hall (on June 1) gets more impressive with the addition of Sabbath Assembly and Natur to the bill...

DOWNLOAD: Morne - "Edge Of The Sky" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Morne - "My Return" (MP3) As previously discussed, Morne is following up their stellar debut for Feral Ward, Untold Wait, with the new doom opus Asylum at their new home Profound Lore on 6/14...

DOWNLOAD: Morne - "My Return" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Caulfield - "Set Fire to the Heavens" (MP3) With their epic show with Batillus fast approaching, Morne has released a new song from their upcoming LP for Profound Lore, Asylum (due 6/14)...

Lots of metal/hardcore updates that need to be addressed, so in honor of my non-existent Short Wave Warfare column I've added them here to my weekly suggested show column, Evillive...

Morne's Untold Wait LP and Demo were both well done (as discussed previously), and now the band (featuring Jeff of ex-Grief/Disrupt fame) is prepping their newest abomination for a new label...

Salute! (more by Markus Shaffer) Records are like assholes, everybody's got one... but not everyone released an LP that will make you want to hit repeat over and over again...

DOWNLOAD: Agalloch - "The Watcher's Monolith" (MP3) Decibel has released their top 40 metal albums of the year, abd Agalloch's Marrow of The Spirit landed at #1...

DOWNLOAD: Abscess - "Dawn of Inhumanity" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Vasaeleth - "Wrathful Deities" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Apostle of Solitude - "December Drives Me To Tears" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Apostle of Solitude - "Hunter Sick Rapture" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Agrimonia - "The Decay" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Locrian - "Procession of Ancestral Brutalism" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Hammers of Misfortune - "Freebird" (Zipped MP3) DOWNLOAD: Buzzov-en - "Mainline" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Cobalt - "Scarred For Life" LIVE (MP3, Filth cover) DOWNLOAD: Hooded Menace - "As The Creatures Ascend" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Zu - "Tom Araya Is Our Elvis" (MP3) Locrian at Show No Mercy last Year (more by Justina Villanueva) Occupying the vast nothing at the crossroads of black metal, noise, ambient, and drone are Chicago duo Locrian...