As any depressive will tell you, the coldest wars are often the ones you fight against yourself. Depression, to quote late cultural theorist Mark…
According to U.K. rock outfit Don Broco, the process behind writing and recording their upcoming fourth album, Amazing Things, was motivated by a singular desire. …
If there’s an area of heavy music worthy of detailed analysis and writerly dissection, it’s the curious, liminal zone that exists between metalcore and…
Here’s a question: Is it possible for death-doom to be fun? One word describes dying and demise, while the other suggests condemnation through acts…
Like all musical languages, every genre has its own form of expression—an accent that signifies not only a specific time and place but a…
There’s a phrase one is bound to hear from time to time: “Left in the lurch.” It’s the kind of catch-all, general phrase used to denote the feeling of abandonment and helplessness one feels…
“I woke up one morning, more or less covered in blood. It wasn’t mine, and I didn’t really remember who it belonged to,” Jack Holldorff says of the…
Welcome to Yesterday’s Jukebox! In this column, I’ll be taking a retrospective gaze through a wide selection of disparate genres and artist discographies (particularly…
Growing up is hard to do. It seems that the older one gets, the more necessary and nebulous a sense of purpose becomes, at…
On their Relapse Records debut, Nashville underground trio Yautja take their trademark hybrid of grind, sludge, and hardcore to its all-consuming, atavistic conclusion. Everything…
