There are two things one has come to expect from a Melvins show: The opening acts are never a disappointment and the headliner will always…
While the landscape of extreme music has evolved since Godflesh emerged from the post-industrial wasteland of Birmingham – the British answer to Detroit – in the 80s, the stark contrast…
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all of the familiar elements of Shone’s work – distorted drones and bass pulses, lumbering tempos, and throbbing mechanical percussion – coalesce in their strongest configurations to date, evidently informed by general anxiety about humanity’s precarious future and a palpable contempt for the complacent cultural self-interest hastening our demise.