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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…

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…

Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire…and Dethklok?

Bartender, there’s a commercial in my rock show!

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…