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JR Moores , March 4th, 2021 13:58 As Part Chimp announce their latest album Drool, due on June 4, the bands singer, guitarist and self-appointed nagger-in-chief Tim Cedar talks to JR Moores about invertebrates and Ringo Starr. Feature contains video for new track, Back From The Dead Part Chimp portraits by Steve Gullick Part Chimp occupy semi-mythical status in the canon of heavy, messy British rock. Dont get me wrong. They are human beings who are possible to contact, have a normal conversatio...

Kez Whelan , February 17th, 2021 10:28 Drop out of life with mask and sanitiser in hand... Has the year-long drought of gigs got you down? Kez Whelan is here with the next best thing: nine new metal albums of chest caving intensity Cara Neir By this time next month, we’ll have gone a year without any gigs. A full year – I’m sure I don’t need to reiterate to you, fellow riff addict, just how deeply spiritually damaging it has been to go cold turkey on live music for so long, but it defi...

Blood Moon 1:00pm - 3:00pm Todays show opens with a punishing blast of blood-splattered grindcore from Gatecreepers new EP, An Unexpected Reality. Well continue the aural punishment with corrosive death metal blasters from Plague, Exhumed and Ceremonial Bloodbath, and celebrate the lunar new year with a part of Fucked Ups zodiac-inspired rock opera to ring in the Year Of The Ox. The second hour of the show features majestic doom with Windhand, Sons Of Otis and Eye Of Doom, and also brand new so...

My Wall Brings Meditative Doom, Eve Maret Makes Improv Excursions Streams from the sludgy three-piece and the electronic soloist were highlights of the weekend Tweet Scenes Q&A with Nashville trio My Wall last week, the group broke down some of the influences behind its ultra-intense new 12-inch “The Event” backed with “Abuse.” Recorded by drummer Carlos Ortiz, mixed by Yautjas Shibby Poole and mastered by Mikey Allred at the venerable Dark Arts, the two-song r...

Oxford psych-doomsters Indica Blues drift gleefully towards the abyss with mind-expanding second album...

this is what I was looking for.” VW: “Give me something like Smashing Pumpkins, but more satanic.” [laughs] Is there a difference between doom and sludge, to you? FH: I think doom is more broad, and sludge is generally dirtier … closer to hardcore punk.  Carlos, you grew up here in Nashville. What was your musical upbringing like? CO: My dad was always into rock music, 105.9 The Rock and stuff. The first shop I ever went to was Phonoluxe. Thirteen was when I really st...

The story of doom metal in 29 songs The long, dark, winding story of doom metal, told through its most vital tracks – from Black Sabbath to YOB Words: Nick Ruskell You could spend a very long time telling the story of doom. Literally, you could, given its frequently slow tempos naturally leading to songs of notable length. But also because its history stretches so far back, and splinters into so many different tangents. From the ​“scary music” idea Sabbath had in 1970, through to b...