Cosmic Hearse

I am off to the March Into Darkness festival in Portland, and then The Ragnarok festival in Lichtenfels Germany. The Cosmic Hearse will resu...

Nunslaughter are an American institution. After more than 20 years, and almost 100 releases (partially due to a lack of quality control) the...

It's odd, while tribute albums often disinterest me, I am always a sucker for slavish worship and plagiarism of older bands, especially ...

One could spend an awful lot of time trying to figure out what happened to a young Motown singing group called The Parliaments to cause them...

Here is the second installment of Cosmic Hearse's look into the eccentric world of France's Les Legions Noire scene. Seviss was the ...

It's 1968 at The Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, the martinis are flowing, and you're on a winning streak, that is until Don Rickles take...

Cross Species Transmutation is the title of the 2003 ep from New York purveyors of technical precision brutality, Malignancy. I generally do...

Teen Cthulhu were a great punk/sludge/power violence band from Seattle, but by the time they recorded their final release in 2002 they had a...

Jerusalem were a young hard rocking band from the UK that caught the attention of a one Ian Gillan, who agreed to help produce what would be...

The title of this demo translates from Russian to mean "Immortal Black Metal." Cool as that is, it is not entirely accurate. The b...

About seven years ago I was flipping through the pages of Metal Maniacs when I happened across a classified ad posted by an entity going by...

When Charles Manson sent forth his family to dispatch Sharon Tate in hopes of spreading fear and racial tension, he gave but one last chilli...

Basically, Anarchy 6 was Redd Kross doing a parody of generic hardcore with all the trappings and stereotypes in tact. There are songs about...

Here's another one you may have missed if you were born too late, Hight Tide's 1969 outing, Sea Shanties . It is a colossus of psych...

In the early and mid '90s a small, tight-knit, group of French musicians and bands calling themselves "Les Legions Noire" (The...

Space Is The Place is the 1974 film starring avant garde jazz composer, Sun Ra, and features some of his best music. It is easily the best ...

With their name culled from the pages of J.R.R. Tolkein, and their cover art (by Michael Whelan) with images from Michael Moorcock's Elr...

By now everyone should know the sordid history of Sammytown and his band of self-proclaimed "Berkeley heathen scum," better known ...

Left End hailed from Youngstown, Ohio. Their 1974 album, Spoiled Rotte n, is a buried treasure chest of macho proto-metal glam bar-rock gold...

Nos Vrolok, one of California's best black metal bands. They incorporate elements of thrash and classic metal to their satanic darkness....