Disappearer

Having debuted as a hardcore/screamo band on their 2001 s/t debut, There Were Wires went in a doomier direction on 2003's 'Somnambulists,' but then their label Iodine Recordings shuttered and the band broke up. Now the label and the band are both back...

The problem with most contemporary metal is that it just isn't heavy: Pristine digital editing, onstage drum triggers and other depressing innovations have sapped the genre of its primal force...

Keelhaul played Santos last night (8/5), and damn if they weren't dizzying, jaw-dropping, amazing, . Good news: Keelhaul will play a late show at The Acheron TONIGHT...

by BBG Unsane at Union Pool (more by Paul Birman) So far there have been a few contenders for my favorite show of 2010, but definitely on that short list was the return of the gods of NYC noise rock, Unsane, to Union Pool earlier this year (with a stellar supporting cast in Made Out of Babies, United Nations, and Dark Vibe)...

DOWNLOAD: Black Cobra - "Negative Reversal" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pelican - "Strung Up From The Sky" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Disappearer - "A Skull Full Of Bats" (MP3) Black Cobra's therapist recommends meditation to cure their anger...

DOWNLOAD: Orcustus - "Asphyxiokenisis" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Subrig Destroyer - "God Of Furnace" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Disappearer - "A Skull Full Of Bats" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Roller - "Rattle Of The Shaman" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Gnaw Their Tongues - "Rife with Deep Teeth Marks" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Velvet Cacoon - "Funeral Noir" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Black Arrows Of Filth & Impurity - "Damn, Girlfriend, That Napalm Exfoliates As It Burns" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Black Arrows Of Filth & Impurity - "If Shit Were Gold, The Poor Wouldn't Have Assholes" (MP3) Orcustus, a vile and caustic black metal crew that at one point featured Infernus and Tormentor of Gorogoroth, have released their long-time-coming LP via Southern Lord...