Junius

They're also touring Europe and the UK with Katatonia and Sólstafir next year.

The EP includes two new songs and remixes by Holy Fawn and members of O'Brother, Teenage Wrist, and more, and you can hear the soaring, shoegazy lead single now...

SOM, the new band with current/former/touring members of Constants, Junius, Caspian, and Rosetta, are self-releasing their debut album The Fall this week and we're premiering a full stream...

The sludge/shoegaze/post-rock/space rock supergroup's new single comes with a visualizer made by A Storm of Light's Josh Graham (who used to do live visuals for Neurosis).

Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas teamed up for the awesome collaborative album Mariner last year, and this month they'll go on a collaborative North American tour. Dalek and Whores will open.

Boston heavy post-rockers Junius haven't released an album since 2011's Reports From the Threshold of Death (though they did put out an EP in 2014), but that will finally change this year. Junius will release Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light on March 3 via Prosthetic Records...

Driftoff is a new band featuring members of Junius, Rosetta and City of Ships, and if you listen to those bands you probably have some idea of what you're get...

Junius at Gramercy in 2011 (more by Greg Cristman Heavy post-rockers Junius announced a NYC one-off which will be their label Prosthetic Records' holiday party happening December 4 at Saint Vitus...

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...

Solstafir at Inferno Festival 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) For such a long-running and accessible band, Iceland's Solstafir have flown remarkably far under the crossover radar for most of their career...