The quartet, hailing from Chapel Hill, was formed in 2005. With thick, fuzzed out riffs leading the charge on most of their songs, Caltrop exists …
Prizehog
“People talk about cavemen beating wooly mammoths in slow motion all the time, but this band actually does it, without bragging even.” -Steelee, Amoeba Music …
Horseback
Jenks Miller’s psychedelic metal / drone project, Horseback, produced an avant-garde sleeper-hit with 2007’s Impale Golden Horn. That record, which Aquarius Records described as “the best drone record …
Hawks
Hawks have made a respected art of designed carelessness, all rusted strings and chugging groove, honing what has become a finely out-of-tuned craft following in …
Music Hates You
Music Hates You is a thunderous live band, a cacophonous tumult of sound and flying bodies. At our best shows, the line is so blurred …
Black Skies
BLACK SKIES, Chapel Hill, NC power trio has been tuning down and turning up since late 2005, constantly evolving their aural offerings of psychedelic sludge. With …
Backwoods Payback
After touring the country relentlessly for 5 years, the singer of a Pennsylvania hardcore band decided to stop everything, lock himself in his basement and …
Dragged Into Sunlight
The elusive Dragged Into Sunlight are a UK extreme metal act, with a collective of members, of whom some have maintained their involvement with profiled …
Arbouretum
The Gathering, Arbouretum’s fourth album, was to a large extent inspired by The Red Book by Carl Jung, or more specifically, Jung’s pursuit of the …
Lo-Pan
This Columbus, OH heavy rock four piece formed in 2005, relentlessly touring the continental US ever since sharing the stage with like-minded bands like Torche, …
Cough
This stripped down, guttural sludge-doom band from Richmond, VA formed in 2005. The band independently released an EP, The Kingdom, a full-length album ‘Sigillum Luciferi’ via Forcefield …
MAKE
3-piece psychedelic metal from Chapel Hill, NC. MAKE has shared the stage with Red Sparowes, Doomriders, Crowbar, Weedeater, Black Tusk, US Christmas, Graves of Valor …