Over the last 10 years, the music made by prolific Chicago/Baltimore trio Locrian has always been tough to categorize: Is it noise? Black metal? Dark ambient? Industrial? Drone? Things get more ...

Metal music often exists at an odd intersection between cathartic, lowbrow lunkhead aggression and adventurous arty abstraction. Since the mid-2000s, the members of Locrian—vocalist and synthesizer ...

"Why music?" It comes off like a Philosophy 101 essay question at first, but the more I twist my head around it, the more it causes a volcanic hurl of thought: Why do I love music? Why do I write ...

It’s a beautiful day in the metal neighborhood; let’s listen to new music from Beastwars, The 69 Eyes, Locrian and Dead Poets, below. First up we have new music from New Zealand’s Beastwars. A press ...

Collaborations can be tough: Oftentimes for bands, opening up a hermetic artistic space to include someone new is simply a pleasurable break from ritual, a chance to have an unexpected variable impact ...

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Pianist Dave Solazzo and The Bridge—a trio that includes drummer Bill D'Augustino and bassist Matthew F. Vacanti—may be better known in the jazz world as accomplished sidemen, but they came together ...

The more music Locrian create, the less sense the metallurgists seem to make: That is the implicit lesson of Infinite Dissolution, the most adventurous and accessible album the once-prohibitively ...