Back in 2019, the Flint, Michigan band Greet Death released New Hell, an extremely promising album that combined heavy-shoegaze sludge with tender, measured prettiness. The band had big plans after that LP’s release, including an opening spot on Deafheaven’s 10th-anniversary tour, but you know what happened with that. So it&a...

Blackened sludge crew The Lion's Daughter reimagine Priest and Ministry for a Bandcamp Friday covers EP

San Antonio’s Amygdala are one of our greatest, most underrated punk bands. Their ferocious racket draws on screamo, sludge metal, and crust, and it comes out sounding like feverish, fearless, expressionist hardcore. Bandleader Bianca Quiñones has one of the world’s greatest screams, and she roars about racism and sexual vio...

Hear Metallica’s thrash classic Creeping Death reimagined as Southern sludge, and emerge as a Load-era monster

While Seattle is in many ways unrecognizable compared to what it was like in the ’80s and ’90s, the city still loves to honor its music history from that era from time to time. The latest installment of that is… a unique one. The city has unveiled a new boring machine, which will begin digging a 2.7 mile long tunnel...