High on Fire

Brewery Tour: Three Floyds Brewing Co.

An Indiana craft brewery infuses a love for rock music into its beer with hops, malts, and metal.

Interview: Salem metalcore vets Converge send home the guests for an explosive new album

Following a release that loaded up on guest stars, Salem metalcore vets Converge send their friends home for the explosive…

ALARM’s 50 (+5) Favorite Songs of 2012

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

Video: High on Fire’s “Fertile Green”

The video for High on Fire’s "Fertile Green," amazing in its ridiculousness, is a mini-masterpiece of psychedelic sci-fi. Follow "Balteazeen,…

Q&A: High on Fire

With each new chapter in High on Fire’s scorching legacy, the sludge trio further challenges what a power trio can…

ALARM Magazine is back! Download free July/August issue for iPad

ALARM Magazine is back! Get a free iPad download of our July/August issue, featuring Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars…

Review: Sleep’s Dopesmoker

Since its adulterated release and subsequent reissue, Sleep’s Dopesmoker (also released as Jerusalem) has stood as a monolith of metal.…

Morrow vs. Hajduch: Beastwars

Scott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of…

100 Unheralded Albums from 2010

Among the thousands of under-appreciated or under-publicized albums that were released in 2010, hundreds became our favorites and were presented…

Contest: Win tickets to Riot Fest 2010 at the Congress

ALARM has two pairs of tickets to give away for the Congress Theater dates (Oct. 8 & 9) of Riot…

Kylesa to release Spiral Shadow on Season of Mist

Just a year and a half after Static Tensions, psych-sludge quintet Kylesa will release Spiral Shadow, its fifth full-length album,…