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Stereogum’s 40 Best New Bands Of 2012
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to select the rising bands which have connected them, someone wrote a long time ago. Or, something close to that. Here's what...
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SXSW 2013 Wednesday: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Waxahatchee, White Lung, &...
Stereogum's recaps and photos from SXSW continue... More »
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Vattnet Viskar –“Fog Of Apathy” (Stereogum Premiere)
New Hampshire's Vattnet Viskar were the only metal act to make our list of 2012's Best New Bands, a spot awarded to them based on the combined strength of their 3-song debut EP, released via...
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The Black Market: The Month In Metal – July 2013
I was in high school the first time I saw Carcass live, in 1992, on the Gods Of Grind Tour, when they were playing American clubs with Entombed, Cathedral, and Confessor. Carcass were touring behind...
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Vattnet Viskar –“Mythos”
In July's Black Market comments, I talked a little bit about how Vattnet Viskar's forthcoming debut LP, Sky Swallower -- which I love, and wrote about a whole lot here -- is not ideally suited to the...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
This week there was something strange and new from Jane's Addiction, Drake released the anti-"Started From The Bottom," and Ryan Hemsworth laid A$AP Rocky over a tweaked out version of Britney Spear's...
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Vattnet Viskar –“Apex”
New Hampshire post-black metal band Vattnet Viskar have already premiered two tracks from their terrific new LP, Sky Swallower: "Fog Of Apathy" and "Mythos," the latter of which debuted just last week...
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Vattnet Viskar –“Breath Of The Almighty” Video
I've already written a whole lot about New Hampshire post-black metal band Vattnet Viskar's debut album, Sky Swallower, here and here and elsewhere; I think it's a great album, and a fucking remarkable...
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The 50 Best Metal Albums Of 2013
In our May Premature Evaluation of Deafheaven's Sunbather, I compared the album to Agalloch's 2010 LP, Marrow Of The Spirit. In my opinion, Marrow is the best metal album of the millennium (so far),...
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Vattnet Viskar –“Settler” (Stereogum Premiere)
Yes, that's the cover art for Vattnet Viskar's upcoming sophomore LP, Settler, and if you saw it and suspected the New Hampshire band were trying to outdo Deafheaven's chillwave-y, un-metal Sunbather...
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Stereogum’s 80 Favorite Songs Of 2015
One of music's finest qualities is that, for all its unifying power, it strikes different people in radically different ways. There is value in recognizing consensus, in appreciating the work that...
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The 50 Best Metal Albums Of 2015
If we're just talking about the music -- and isn't that, like, the thing we're talking about here? -- then 2015 was a great year for metal. That should come as no surprise. The genre (to the the extent...
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Band To Watch: Astronoid
Astronoid are a five-piece band from Boston whose debut LP, Air, is set to be released next week. I've talked about the album a couple times on Stereogum already -- first, when we premiered Air's title...
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