Four years ago, Cloudrat taught us all — or at least dumb ol’ me — the meaning of the word “Qliphoth,” which “are the representation of evil or impure spiritual forces in Jewish mysticism.” Now the ...

There’s been a lot of shake-up in the Chicago extreme metal scene lately. A hot-spot for often great, always brutal, sometimes controversial extreme music, a bunch of central bands have undergone a ...

It was 11 months ago that on our desks landed an announcement of a very different new line-up of Lord Mantis. The change felt weird, super unexpected, and kinda reminiscent of that old Saturday Night ...

There's already a clear narrative for the year in metal, and we're only three months in. This came up once already when we wrote about the band Indian in January's Black Market (coincidentally, that ...

Some bands are known for pushing the envelope; Lord Mantis have made their reputation by yanking it wide open and making the world look inside. The Chicago blackened sludge quartet manage to surprise ...