Kongh Describe Their Visit From the Vetlanda Mental Institution
For better or worse, every band remembers its first show. For the members of Kongh, their first show was one they will likely never forget. "This was back in 2005 when the band was just a ...
Southern Metal Gets Its Due in 'Slow Southern Steel'
They've always done things a little different in the South, and that could not be more true than with the sweat-stained and whiskey-soaked sludge bands that make up the heavy music scene south of the ...
Black Cobra Get Trippy on Time Travel
The two-piece band concept seems to be gaining in popularity as of late, perhaps due to the success of such blues-based duos as the White Stripes and the Black Keys. In the heavy music realm, bands ...
White Wizzard's Jon Leon Says '90s Metal Contained 'So Many Crappy Spin-Offs'
You've got to hand it to White Wizzard bassist Jon Leon for staying true to his vision. Longing to bring metal back to its pre-'90s glory days of headbanging songs and good times, he formed White ...
Bergraven Is Melancholy but Not Black Metal
Black metal has always been about individualism and not being "one of the sheep, " yet more and more albums seem to be coming out of the woodwork with the obligatory forest scene artwork, ...
Nadja's Aiden Baker on Their New Album of Cover Songs
Drone/ambient/shoegazer metal is right up there with black metal on the gloom scale, where walls of feedback are seemingly in a constant battle to out-grim the last. But Aiden Baker and Leah ...
Robot Lords of Tokyo: the Heavy Metal Hall & Oates?
Ohio's Robot Lords of Tokyo are not your typical metal band. Consisting of Rick Ritzler and Paul Jones as well as a rotating cast of a dozen or so of their musician friends, it's hard to tell if they ...
