Metal is one of those genres with fans who love to debate whether or not a band is in fact “metal.” One band that often finds themselves a subject of these debates is Chicago’s Locrian. It’s easy to ...

No one does ethereal, menacing, and haunting quite like Locrian. The three piece Chicago outfit mix shoegaze, gothic post-punk, and dark ambient, all with an overarching sense of dread on “Chalk Point ...

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 ...

More than previous efforts, this record works best as a whole, but "Wrath of Heaven" is a fine place to start. The track slowly layers a pulsing synth, E-bowed guitar, multichannel panning and a ...

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Over the past few months Locrian have quietly released two of 2010's best albums. They're not a quiet band, but the project of André Foisy and Terence Hannum -- which expands and contracts depending ...

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Locrian's new seven-inch is a further move in the direction of epic post-rock. The stars align perfectly here as the band create a dramatic cosmology rather than a simple set of songs. Like a Beckett ...