MP3 Premiere: Murmur’s “Zeta II Reticuli”
Chicago experimental-metal quartet Murmur’s “Zeta II Reticuli” comprises fuzzy, black-metal menace and obvious punk-rock energy, but toward the end of…
11 years ago
Kylesa
Fresh sludge: Kylesa announces new album, debuts haunting track “Unspoken”
Three years after the critically acclaimed Spiral Shadow, sludge-metal group Kylesa has announced its new album, Ultraviolet. Out 5/28 on Season…
12 years ago
Contest: Win a five-day pass to CMJ 2011
From October 18 – 22, New York City's finest venues, nightclubs, and theaters will be taken over by musicians, music-industry professionals,…
13 years ago
Record Review: Trap Them’s Darker Handcraft
Trap Them: Darker Handcraft (Prosthetic, 3/18/11) Trap Them: "The Facts" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Trap-Them-The-Facts.mp3|titles=Trap Them: "The Facts"] To appreciate Trap Them's new album,…
14 years ago
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…
14 years ago
Sunn O))) to curate 2011 Roadburn Festival
Since 1999, The Netherlands' annual Roadburn Festival has showcased adventurous alt-metal, psychedelic, doom, noise, and experimental music from around the…
14 years ago
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,…
14 years ago
Kylesa signs to Season of Mist, plans new album for 2010
After four full-length albums, psychedelic sludge-punk quintet Kylesa has signed to French avant-metal label Season of Mist. The Savannah band…
15 years ago
50 Unheralded Albums from 2009
ALARM leaves no genre unloved in our round-up of 50 albums that didn't receive enough attention in 2009.
15 years ago
What We’re Seeing This Weekend: Mastodon, Converge, Peanut Butter Wolf
It's a great few days for metal in Chicago as Mastodon, Converge, Kylesa, and Russian Circles each performs new material.…
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
18 Albums on our Radar in 2009
This year promises to be a great one for music. Isis, The Bad Plus, Mastodon, Dan Deacon, Coalesce, Jerseyband, Converge,…
16 years ago