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Matador

Atlanta's ZOROASTER started going down this rabbit hole on last year's "Voice of Saturn", and on "Matador", they've given over fully to the lysergic carpet mold that's eating their brains and telling them they're interstellar warriors. They're morphing before our eyes from a slow, apocalyptic band o...

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SHRINEBUILDER, VOIVOD, BLACK MOUNTAIN, DEAD MEADOW, YOB Confirmed For ROADBURN

Doom supergroup SHRINEBUILDER, legendary Canadian avant-metal quartet VOIVOD (performing two separate shows),doom giants YOB (playing their seminal album "The Unreal Never Lived" in its entirety),sludge/stoner legends BUZZOV*EN, sludge bastards WEEDEATER and RWAKE are among the newly confirmed ban...

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Witchsorrow

Released appropriately enough on Rise Above Records in Europe earlier this year, WITCHSORROW's self-titled debut now sees release this month in North America via Metal Blade Records. Knowing bare boned, traditional doom metal when they hear it (YOB anyone?),the label surely didn't make the decision...

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NEUROSIS Schedules Two Shows In Seattle

Long-running Oakland, California-based industrial/alternative/metal pioneers NEUROSIS have scheduled two shows in Seattle at the end of December: Dec. 30 - Seattle, WA - Neumos Dec. 31 - Seattle, WA - Neumos Support at the Dec. 30 show will come from WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM and BLACK BREATH. Openi...

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SOILENT GREEN, PLACE OF SKULLS, ALCEST, IN SOLITUDE, BLOOD CEREMONY Confirmed For ROADBURN

SOILENT GREEN, PLACE OF SKULLS, ALCEST, IN SOLITUDE, BLOOD CEREMONY and GHOST have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Roadburn Festival, set to take place from Thursday, April 14 to Saturday, April 16 at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an additional After...

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Legendary Stoner Rock Icons SLEEP Announce Fall Tour

Legendary stoner rock band SLEEP split in 1997 after two hugely influential albums. Members went on to form underground heroes OM and HIGH ON FIRE, and more recently metal supergroup SHRINEBUILDER. This fall, original members Al Cisneros and Matt Pike will be joined by drummer Jason Roeder of NEUROS...

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PELICAN's 'What We All Come To Need' To Be Released On Vinyl

PELICAN's Southern Lord Recordings debut full-length, "What We All Come To Need" — originally released in October — will be issued in double-LP format on February 23. The deluxe vinyl version bears a beautiful heavyweight gatefold jacket, and the fourth side of the release contains three bonus track...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE, VOIVOD, BRUTAL TRUTH Confirmed For SCION ROCK

CANNIBAL CORPSE, VOIVOD, BRUTAL TRUTH and D.R.I. are among the confirmed bands for the Scion Rock festival, set to take place Saturday, March 13 in Columbus, Ohio. This free event will be held across four different venues (Circus, Skully's, Newport Music Hall, and Bernie's Distillery) along Columbus...

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KONGH Signs With SEVENTH RULE RECORDINGS

Seventh Rule Recordings has announced the signing of Scandinavian doom lords KONGH. Hailing from Sweden, KONGH churns out doom metal with a progressive melting pot of ideas whose origins stem from the spirit of their godfathers — MELVINS, YOB, and CANDLEMASS. The follow-up to their critically acclai...

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The Great Cessation

Okay, first there was YOB, with songs longer than God's beard hair, creepy otherworldly vocals beamed in from some other planet, and riffing so slow and heavy it ground lesser music into sediment like a sonic glacier. Then the rhythm section left, and Mike Scheidt, being one of the most gracious dud...

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Reunited GOATSNAKE, YOB Confirmed For Holland's ROADBURN Festival

Seminal doom legends GOATSNAKE will reunite for an appearance at next year's Roadburn festival, set to take place April 15-17, 2010 at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland. GOATSNAKE — featuring the original lineup of Greg Anderson (SUNN 0))) on guitar, Guy Pinhas (THE OBSESSED) on bas...

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TOMBS, ZOROASTER, BISON B.C., THE GATES OF SLUMBER Confirmed For PLANET CARAVAN

TOMBS, ZOROASTER, BISON B.C., THE GATES OF SLUMBER, SOURVEIN, HULL, SALOME and BATILLUS have been confirmed for Planet Caravan, a two-day music festival celebrating the origins of heavy music, set to take place September 18-19 at The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club and Mo Daddy's in Ashevil...

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CLUTCH, PENTAGRAM, ORANGE GOBLIN Confirmed For PLANET CARAVAN Festival

CLUTCH, PENTAGRAM and ORANGE GOBLIN are among the confirmed bands for Planet Caravan, a two-day music festival celebrating the origins of heavy music, set to take place September 18-19 at The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club in Asheville, North Carolina. Featuring a lineup of some of the bes...

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YOB: 'The Great Cessation' Details Revealed

Reunited "cosmic doom metal" band YOB has completed work on its new full-length album, "The Great Cessation", for a July 14 release via Profound Lore Records. Long respected as one of doom metal's finest and most potent bands, YOB creates mastodonic, mind-bending music. "The Great Cessation" was rec...

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Voice of Saturn

If an apocalyptically slow sludge band gets psychedelic on us, is it tuning in, turning on, or selling out? Something tells me Atlanta crunge merchants ZOROASTER won't be swimming in endorsement deals for adding piano and droney chant to "Seeing the Dark", but it does widen their sonic palette in a...