"Here's a band that are now adept, virtuoso in fact, at playing silence. It's always seemed that it's in the spaces between the notes that they were saying the most." - Dara Higgins finds life on Earth's new album.
Relapse Records' Tombs & Southern Lord's The Secret play a four date Irish tour this weekend, visiting Belfast, Dublin, Cork & Galway.
"Dopesmoker is the entire history of the metal riff, slowed down, and deconstructed. It is, in fact, the entire history of the planet, of humanity." - Dara Higgins finds enlightenment in the reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker.
"Weirdly enough for genre born out of the anarchist movement and thoroughly left-wing politics, crust punk is pretty conservative as extreme music styles go." - MacDara on Nuclear Death Terror's Chaos Reigns.
Circle's Terminal is 'one to tune up your air guitar for' says John Kealy
MacDara Conroy surveys the landscape of heavy, noisy and interesting music over the past 12 months
"...now that their lives no longer depend on the band, they can afford to take more risks with their music" - Macdara gets a taste for Pelican from their new EP Ataraxia/Taraxis.
Ian Maleney talks faeries, folk songs & working solo vs being in a band with Earth's Dylan Carlson.
'Sunn O))) is impossible to jog along to' - Niall McGuirk on Sunn O))) & Ulver's recent collaboration,Terrestrials
MacDara Conroy spoke to Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies of Earth before their Whelan's gig