On Cosmic Tears, Las Cruces plays to its primary strength: delivering the kind of tough and timeless riffs, slow tempos and foreboding atmosphere pioneered by groups such as Black Sabbath and Trouble.

For that hour, Star Theater sounded like the world’s last violent gasps were imminent. Impressively, their sound system ...

During the 80s, doom metal was in a fractured state and barely a ‘scene’ at all. Candlemass and Trouble enjoyed some mainstream success, but others – including the likes of Pentagram, Witchfinder ...

Doom-metal pioneers Pentagram played San Antonio’s Paper Tiger Tuesday night, demonstrating why the group continues to have such staying power even though it formed in 1971 and contains only one ...

If you don’t know what a combination of “sludge, doom, stoner and black metal” sounds like, get ready to find out. The Boise-based doom metal trio, Ghorot, is set to release their sophomore ...

A legendary doom metal band plans on reuniting with a classic singer of theirs. Alas, it’ll just be for one night only. Loudwire reports how Swedish group Candlemass will be performing at this year’s ...

Modern digital avenues for music discovery can make it hard to remember what “underground” used to mean. Before the Internet, underground music was hard to find and often hard to even know about—and ...

It's early on a recent Friday morning and I'm at home listening to "Mind Burns Alive," the new album out today from Little Rock doom metal quartet Pallbearer. Outside a steady rain falls and thunder ...

If you look at your favorite metal band’s list of influences, you’re probably going to see Black Sabbath somewhere in the mix. They were one of the first truly heavy bands and inspired countless ...

Here are the 10 best new sludge metal bands since 2010, chosen by Lord Dying's Alyssa Maucere. Sludge metal is a subgenre that has been largely consistent across the decades, with some stylistic ...