Essentials: This weekend's live music picks Sep 25, 2009
Tonight @ the Independent: By making stoner doom metal sound like Tibetan chanting, Om has exploited a niche that few bands dare to venture into ... Om Tonight @ the Independent: By making stoner doom metal sound like Tibetan chanting, Om. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sasha Frere-Jones: Sunn O))), at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Sep 14, 2009
Really low guitars normally tuned to E are tuned down to B or A. The band s founding members, Stephen O Malley and Greg Anderson, have seen their work described as drone and doom metal, though neither fully explains Sunn O))) (the O))) is silent). A typical track begins with two guitars striking chords in unison and letting them sustain; Sunn O))) celebrates the beauty of amplification and the range of physical responses low frequencies produce. (New Yorker)
In the age of Obama, will heavy metal suck again? Aug 21, 2009
A conservative blogger thinks the Democratic victory of 2008 will doom metal for good. In a post on American Conservative, blogger George Hawley wrote about how he voted for President Ob. (The American Conservative)
Double Fine and EA Announce Super-Charged Soundtrack for Brütal Legend Aug 11, 2009
Instead, what weve unleashed is without question the most mind-blasting, face-melting, skull-shattering alliance of Classic Metal, Thrash Metal, New Wave, British Metal, Black Metal, Power Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal, Hair Metal, Goth Metal and Industrial Metal ever decreed by The Gods Of Metal. Its very existence will condemn your soul to eternal brtal damnation. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Entertainment Weekly's Picks of the Week May 25, 2009
Unless you're a very impressionable 15-year-old, Manson's safe-as-milk doom metal is unlikely to leave even a superficial cut. DVD. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Torche's latest album Meanderthal defies heavy metal genre Apr 3, 2009
In 2005, the Miami band released their self-titled debut on Robotic Empire, introducing the world to a new style of doom metal that replaces the bleakness and despair typical of the genre with a more delightful metal sound ... The final song on the album, "Meanderthal," is a tribute to their explosive doom metal sound. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
Doomriders: Black Thunder Album Rev... Mar 6, 2009
He is a self-professed skateboard fanatic, and he has that other artsy doom metal band Old Man Gloom ... Old Man Gloom on the other hand is more of an experiment in ambient music and doom metal. (Suite101.com)
Genghis Tron: Board Up The House Al... Feb 28, 2009
5 minute long song features a slow electronic dirge punctuated by doom metal parts until guitar and synth meld together in one epic melody. This success is repeated in the album s opener and closer. (Suite101.com)
