Whitehorse

The seventh annual M for Montreal festival happens next week (November 14 – 17) in its namesake Canadian city. Previous years, M4M has featured mainly Montreal (and other parts of Canada) artists, being showcased to a group of “international delgates” (talent buyers, journalists, music supervisors, tour agenents and other industry types) in a tightly controlled set of shows, this year’s fest expands its scope with nearly 100 performer at 16 venues, giving it more of an actual festival feel than an industry conference that has music showcases the public could by tickets to…

Whitehorse Australia’s Whitehorse headlined a rainy night at Acheron yesterday (6/12), joined by tourmates Batillus, NYC doom trio Unearthly Trance and death-grind newcomers Skullshitter (who I caught earlier this week, pictures)…

Last week we debuted the lead track from Melbourne, AU’s Whitehorse‘s second of three splits with Seattle’s Cross. It was the Australian crew’s song that got the spotlight in our last go around, but now comes the new stream for Cross, the metal band featuring TJ Cowgill (King Dude, Teen Cthulu, Book of Black Earth)…

Whitehorse at SXSW 2011 (more by BBG) Battle stations America! Whitehorse is preparing to rumble the US on a tour with Batillus, hopefully performing material from THREE splits on the way…

Dayton City Paper: Frontwoman Therese Lanz: I would describe Mares of Thrace as an armada of angry drag queens riding nuclear warhead-equipped rabid rhinoceroses in a kamikaze mission of destruction into an Alabama Pentecostal megachurch service…

May 15th, 1993. That was the last time that death metal legends Autopsy played NYC (at The Tilt with Incantation and Vital Remains), so Friday’s appearance at the Bell House (5/4) was a long-time coming…

Batillus at Subterranean (more by Carmelo Espanola) As discussed, doom greats Batillus and Whitehorse have teamed up for a split 12″ due via Vendetta Records…

Australian gods of death-doom Whitehorse are heading back to the states for a string of US dates, kicking it all off with shows at Chaos in Tejas and eventually creeping up the East Coast before heading out west…

Volume 8 of the incredible Chaos in Tejas will go down on May 31st through June 3rd in Austin, Texas, and this year and much like last, its chock full of incredible rare appearances from across the punk, crust, indie, and metal world…

Whitehorse at the WFMU Showcase during SXSW (more by BBG) Ever since Whitehorse hit the stages at WFMU during SXSW, I was hooked. The Aussie crew’s uber-brutal death-doom was impressive live, but would that cloak of darkness spread into recorded medium…