Album Review: With ‘Yellow & Green’, Baroness Takes a Step Out of the Swamp
Baroness Yellow & Green (Relapse) As one of the biggest names to emerge from a certain Southern scene of swampy sludge-metal, Savannah foursome Baroness helped define a new wave of heavy music that was both at once regressive and progressive. On one hand, at the outset, bands like Baroness, Kylesa before them, and their other [...]
Review: Weedeater Shakes Churchill’s to Its Metal Core
Saturday night brought yet another onslaught of slack-stringed stoner-doom destruction to Miami, courtesy of the bands ASG, Cough, and the shotgun-toting, pot-loving, sludge-metal maniacs of Weedeater. Between the three touring acts and locals Ether and Shroud Eater, the show was a veritable buffet of different stoner-metal subgenres, ranging from painfully slow funeral marches to rocking [...]
Weedeater Is Latest Addition to Miami’s Stellar Metal Schedule, Plays Churchill’s Pub Saturday
South Florida sludge junkies and decibel devotees have been getting more than their fair share of prize offerings when it comes to recent shows. Between performances by genre definers EyeHateGod and Corrosion of Conformity, last Saturday’s Torche/Hawg Jaw show, and the hometown date with reanimated Miami legends Floor, you might think the area could use a [...]
Take As Needed for Pain: EyeHateGod Hits Churchill’s March 31
Blood. Sweat. Whiskey. These are the three essential ingredients for every occasion that finds Mike IX Williams, Jimmy Bower, Brian Patton, Joey LaCaze, and Gary Mader onstage together. And on Saturday, the fine denizens of Miami had better brace themselves. Mama, get your gun, because NOLA’s finest are coming to town. EyeHateGod have been trawling [...]
Corrosion of Conformity’s Mike Dean on New Lineup, Cult Status
Monday’s show at Grand Central marks a rarity for South Florida metal and hardcore heads. When Corrosion of Conformity appears to headline the sprawling downtown Miami venue, not only will it be the band’s only Florida show on its current run, but it’ll be the band’s first in our pocket of the state in 15 [...]
Review: Hank3 Plays Culture Room, Stoner Vibes Abound
Hank3’s show at the Culture Room Wednesday night was a lesson in orderly chaos. With a digital clock sitting on an amp and looming over his left shoulder, the minutes ticked away as Shelton Hank Williams, son of Hank Williams Jr. and grandson of Hank Williams Sr., blew through three sets in three hours that [...]
Hank3 Kicks Curb to the Curb, Gets Prolific
Shelton Hank Williams has been relatively prolific of late. At mega-label Curb Records, he made only six albums in 15 years. But in the year since leaving Curb and recording under Hank3 Records, the country renegade has launched four albums — all simultaneously, in September 2011. “We don’t believe anyone has done such a thing before [...]
Immortal Rites: Florida Death Metal Reigns Eternal
Florida death metal is one of the most important and influential scenes to ever disgrace the heavy metal pantheon. It’s been immortalized to the point that a mere mention to one of the faithful immediately conjures up an image of Morbid Angel pentagrams, Cannibal Corpse album covers, lovingly depicted scenes of depravity and gore, cut-off shorts [...]
Tool, an Overpriced Exercise in Nostalgia, Coming to BankAtlantic
As someone who’s never counted herself among the seemingly inexplicable legions of Tool fanatics that populate the heavier regions of alternative rock, my knowledge of the band is admittedly nowhere near encyclopedic (or even much more than nonexistent). However, to hear that any rock-based band, whether it be AC/DC or Abazagorath, is demanding prices skywards [...]