Hey everyone, did you have a great Chaos in Tejas? We'll have photos up soon, but for now, here's a pic we parsed from the Chaos Flickr account of Doom playing on a boat. Seems to sum the festival up pretty well, we thought. more ›

Scott “Wino” Weinrich is no household name, but his legacy looms large over the hard rock and metal underground. In the middle of the D.C. hardcore scene, he rewrote the rules of heavy rock with the Obsessed, a band worshiped as much by Ian MacKaye as by the local heshers. more ›

Washington state’s Wolves in the Throne Room are somewhat of an anomaly. Typically boxed into the ambient black metal sub-style of the black metal sub-genre (stay with us here), the band is one of the luminaries on the U.S. black metal landscape that’s making a conscious effort to push the boundaries of a genre that has a tendency to remain stagnant. The band incorporates an ecologically conscious worldview, not only into their music but also their lifestyle (members live on a sustainable farming compound outside of Olympia that they call “Calliope”), and an emphasis on catharsis and spiritual well-being rather than black metal’s more traditional nihilism and misanthropy. more ›