Cosmic Hearse

Say what you will about Dimmu Borgir. Use your derision of them as a testimony to your deep underground kvltitude. Slag them for being a suc...

Black Fire was Andrew Hill's debut as a leader for Blue Note. For this legendary session, Hill was joined by Joe Henderson, Richard Dav...

If you look past the redneckery , the tall tales , and you were to judge Malevolent Creation based on their first two albums alone, you woul...

School Jerks are a promising young punk band from Toronto, and they are just one of many burgeoning hordes that look to the past for hardcor...

Isvind were another early Norwegian Black Metal band. They formed in 1992 and quickly started releasing very limited tapes. The second of th...

The Warriors is a Xenophonic epic set against rough and ruinous late 1970s New York, a nocturnal necropolis inhabited by stylized thematic ...

Achilleus were another obscure bunch of Swedish kids playing the ol' hard rock/heavy metal in the '80s. They hailed from the bullshi...

Any album with Lee Morgan, Bobby Hutcherson, Anthony Williams, and Jackie McLean is bound to be amazing, but then put these fertile talents ...

Despite having a history dating back to 1993 and almost a dozen releases, Sweden's Nastrond is not often talked about. The duo of Draugr...

Are you ready for some sickeningly infectious multi-culti baroque pop? Oh good. Yamasuki (sometimes called The Yamasuki Singers) were the br...

Here's some raging, puffy-shoe, thrash from Arizona. Atrophy hailed from Tucson, but were in keeping with the sort of thrash being laude...

Joe Henderson cut his teeth playing in the United States Army Band at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Upon his discharge he found himself in New York ...

S.N.F.U.'s 1984 album ...And No One Else Wanted To Play explained in fifty words: People lose their minds, don't be sexist to waitre...

In 1970, the Australian band Tully, was comissioned to provide music for Paul Wistig's surf documentary Sea of Joy . The surfing magazin...

How about this to fuck up your Valentine's Day? Ildjarn is perhaps the most influential figure in the world of harsh, raw Black Metal, a...

Mr. Show was one of the greatest television shows of all time and it lasted only three seasons n the early '90s. Proof of it's geniu...

Here's another favorite NWOBHM EP, Bleak House's Lions in Winter . Bleak House's career can be traced back to 1972 when they ope...

Trumpetizer Freddie Hubbard's third session for Blue Note resulted in this fine album with the hokey title, Hub Cap . On this 1961 alb...

Kallathon is a guy, not a band, and is part of the elusive Black Twilight Circle of absolutely mesmerizing Black Metal bands from Southern C...

When you think of the '90s you may choose to remember flannel-wrapped dude bros from Seattle playing quiet, then loud, then quiet once a...