The UK's premier stoner/doom/pysych/sludge weekender just got a whole lot heavier

A couple of months ago, I saw the long-running, sludged-out Orlando screamo trio Gillian Carter play a DIY show with Infant Island, Amygdala, and Listless. And let me tell you: That shit ruled. The three members of Gillian Carter have that musical-ESP thing going that you can only get if you’ve been in a band with the same people for a...

Featuring members of Crowning, Itto, Ikaray, Snuffed, Shrivel Up, and Cloud Cruiser, Chicago’s Greed Worm play a harsh, brutal, violently burly form of music they call “NU-DEATH SLUDGE.” This is insanely heavy and volatile stuff, and on their new Hell Is Real EP they’ve laced it with samples implicitly cri...

All Hail The Yeti offer up more hook-laden, Southern-simmered metal from the Hollywood Hills

As far as I know, there are no deserts in New York. But that doesn’t mean that NYC should be deprived of epic, guttural stoner-metal. Desertfest, a European collective that books sludge festivals around the world, has just announced the lineup for next year’s Desertfest NYC, which will bring many of the world’ fines...