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 ...

Lord Mantis at Saint Vitus in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) Lord Mantis just debuted a new song on Stereogum called “Negative Birth” from their forthcoming album, Death Mask, which comes out on April 29 ...

Nick Lowe, “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” I was reminded of this song from Nick Lowe‘s 1978 LP Jesus of Cool when it played in a goofy video review of Death Wish 3. I like its chattering funk ...

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 ...