Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
The band ups the ante with their most diverse and interesting album to date. The songwriting, production and number of songs have all increased dramatically. The best metal album of the year without question! Rating: Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage Southern Lord Wolves in the Throne Room is one of the most [...]
Weedeater – Jason… the Dragon
The band that the term sludge was invented to describe return with an extremely heavy and thick record full of swampy, gritty guitars and bowel shattering bass. It doesn’t get any heavier or thicker than this! Rating: Weedeater – Jason… the Dragon Southern Lord Recordings It was beginning to look like Weedeater wasn’t going to [...]
The Secret – Solve et Coagula
Metallic grindcore from Italy that is short, fast, and punishing. A couple of slower numbers show promise of experimentation. Rating: The Secret – Solve et Coagula Southern Lord Recordings The Secret is a band from Italy who have been around for about seven years now and this is their third full-length, and first for an [...]
Righteous Fool – 7″
A strong debut effort from two members of COC and one from HR’s band who deliver a two-song single of strong metallic rock. Rating: Righteous Fool – 7″ Southern Lord Righteous Fool is a new band featuring Mike Dean and Reed Mullin from Corrosion of Conformity along with Jason Browning who played with HR. This [...]
Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction
A great collection of Earth’s first recording session from 1990. Experimental doom/grunge/drone metal that sounds fresh even by today’s standards. Rating: Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction Southern Lord Before Earth became the masters of drone, they spent the beginning of their career with a different lineup (guitarist/founder Dylan Carlson has been [...]
Corrosion of Conformity – Your Tomorrow
The Animosity lineup returns with a two-song single of modern stoner rock. The best COC record since Technocracy! Rating: Corrosion of Conformity - Your Tomorrow 7″ Southern Lord Corrosion of Conformity started way back in the early 1980s as a hardcore punk band who had one of the coolest logos in the world. Their music [...]
Earth to reissue first recording sessions
Drone metal band, Earth, is set to reissue their debut recordings this fall. The album, titled A Beaurocratic Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction, will compile the entirety of their 1990 Smegma Studios sessions that was originally split over a couple of releases. All seven tracks will be remastered by Mell Dettmer, who did all the [...]
Boris with Ian Astbury – BXI EP
Boris with Ian Astbury – BXI Southern Lord Having been a fan of Ian Astbury for years and his all things Cult (Southern Death, Death, and The) and becoming a fairly new fan of Boris, when I found out the two were combining forces to make a record I was pretty excited. I wasn’t just [...]
Boris announce collaboration with Ian Astbury
Japanese rock heavyweights, Boris, have announced an they have teamed up with The Cult’s Ian Atsbury (let’s try and forget he also was recently singing for “The Doors”). The official announcement is as follows: Southern Lord proudly announces an incredible collaboration between label artists Boris and Ian Astbury of The Cult and The Doors! This finely-crafted [...]
Black Cobra – Chronomega
Black Cobra – Chronomega Southern Lord Black Cobra is a two man band from the Bay Area in California comprised of former members of Acid King and Cavity. The band released two albums prior to this one for At a Loss Recordings but for this new album they have found a new home with Southern [...]
The Accused – The Curse of Martha Splatterhead
The Accused – The Curse of Martha Splatterhead CD Southern Lord Recordings In the mid to late 1980s, The Accused were one of the premier “crossover” bands and probably played a large part in forming that style of music that became so popular back then, and later went on to influence such genres as grindcore. [...]
New Pelican song posted from their upcoming album
Chicago instrumental heavyweights, Pelican, have just posted a new track from their upcoming album, What We All Come to Need. The album will be released on Southern Lord on October 27th and will be the band’s first full-length for the label after spending their entire career thus far on Hydra Head Records. The song is [...]
Wino – Punctuated Equilibrium
Wino – Punctuated Equilibrium CD Southern Lord Recordings Wino is the nickname of one Scott Weinrich who has spent the last quarter century creating really heavy music in bands such at Saint Vitus, The Obsessed and The Hidden Hand. The man could practically have invented modern day “stoner rock” and was creating it long before [...]
Pelican signs to Southern Lord
After spending nearly their entire existence thus-far on HydraHead Records, Pelican has left the nest and has found itself a new home with Southern Lord. The official announcement is as follows. It is with immense reverence that Southern Lord Recordings announces the signing of Chicago heavy-rock instrumental icons Pelican. Their genre-defying sound and eagerness to [...]
Lair of the Minotaur – War Metal Battle Master
Lair of the Minotaur – War Metal Battle Master CD Southern Lord Recordings Despite this being their third album and evidently the band being from my own city, this CD stands as my first exposure to Lair of the Minotaur. The band name alone conjured images in my mind of something dark and sinister and [...]
