Hipster metal. Or is it just popular?
Now here’s a hot topic if ever there was one; ‘Hipster metal’. This is something that I’ve been giving a fair bit of thought to recently, mainly thanks to the release of The Sword’s new album, Warp Riders. Regular visitors to Thee Big Black’s forum will probably have spotted the thread Ed from Doom Metal [...]
Bad news / good news
It seems like it’s all bad news at the moment! Mastodon have announced via their Myspace blog that the band has been forced to cancel their upcoming European tour due to guitarist Bill Kelliher being taken ill. Here’s what the band had to say on their blog . . . “MASTODON regret to inform their [...]
Success? How very dare you!
There’s been a debate running on Thee Big Black’s forum for a while now as to whether or not stoner/doom is going to be the next ‘thing’ in the metal world. Initially sparked by a comment on another forum (there’s a link at the start of the thread) moaning about how trendy stoner and doom [...]
Zoroaster release White Dwarf video.
Atlanta’s kings of psych metal, Zoroaster have released a promo video for the track White Dwarf. The track is taken from the band’s 2009 album Voice of Saturn and is, to my ears, one of the album’s highlights. Here’s what the band had to say on their Myspace blog . . . “Directed by the [...]
