Om: Spiritual Work and Colossal Vibrations
Om, the intense, hypnotic bass-and-drum duo that bassist Al Cisneros founded with drummer Chris Haikus in 2003, has been reinventing…
14 years ago
High on Fire
Converge: Rules Were Made to be Broken
This pioneering, aggressive hardcore outfit is a band that likes a challenge. With 20 years under its belt, and on…
14 years ago
Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire…and Dethklok?
Bartender, there’s a commercial in my rock show!
15 years ago
Toxic Holocaust: An Overdose of Death
Toxic Holocaust's An Overdose of Death is a thrash-metal, punk-rock, face-peeling, metal-lover's dream.
16 years ago
Weekly Music News Roundup
Details emerge about new albums from Isis, Tortoise, Akron/Family, and Stinking Lizaveta; Zu announces some dates for a world tour…
16 years ago
Weekly Music News Roundup
Blue Note announces another list of catalogue deletions; Akron/Family and High on Fire sign to new labels; Trent Reznor comments…
16 years ago
Saviours: Heavy Metal’s Salvation
While metal has finally reached the mainstream, Oakland's Saviours do their best to drive it back underground. Recorded entirely on…
17 years ago
ALARM’s Top Ten Albums of 2007
Despite increasingly miserable mainstream hits (how can the radio get any worse?), 2007 was an excellent, indulgent, fulfilling year of…
17 years ago