Late last year, Madlib released the beat album Rock Konducta Pt. 1, with the promise that a Pt. 2 was on the way. Now we’ve gotten word that it indeed is, along with a definitive version of the full double album, Rock Konducta which will amount to more than 50 tracks. This seems like the [...]

In February, we talked to the pioneering American prog/sludge/pop/metal band Mastodon, who were then in the studio recording their forthcoming LP, Once More Round The Sun. And today, the first music from that album has emerged, in the form of “High Road,” which debuted today on something called The PRP, and which you can list...

Down is the New Orleans sludge-metal supergroup led by Pantera’s Phil Anselmo and Corrosion Of Conformity’s Pepper Kennan, and later this spring, they’ll release their new EP Down IV – Part Two. The first track we’ve heard from it is a titanic, bludgeoning deep-head-nod groove called “W...

Iconic NOLA sludge merchants Eyehategod will release their first studio album for 13 years this Spring.

Chicago blackened sludge/doom quartet Lord Mantis’ sophomore album, Pervertor, was one of Stereogum’s favorite metal records of 2012. Last year, the band contributed to one of the most intense live shows I saw in 2013, when they opened for the great American black metal duo Cobalt on that band’s truncated North Amer...