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 [...]
The Sword in impressively to the point blog shocker!
Stoner metal stars, The Sword, made a post on their blog today (30th April 2010) which has got to be firmly in the running for the, currently non-existent, ‘most to the point blog of the year’ award. Announcing the release date of the band’s follow up to 2008′s Gods Of The Earth on their Myspace [...]
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 [...]
