In a Brooklyn music scene crusted shut with black metal char, Mountain God are something of a throwback—a lead-fisted sludge band lumbering along in the hoof prints of Unearthly Trance and Serpentine Path before them. But while the trio’s new record Bread Solstice (Artificial Head Records) certainly warrants such comparisons, it also cuts a new path […]
This One Goes To Eleven: Slaves BC, Blackest, and more at The Acheron
Few things on this baking trash heap we call earth are more “metal” than a Friday the 13th, and we (OK, me) here at This One Goes To Eleven are embracing that cliche with our first showcase in over a year. Spearheaded by Pittsburgh doom-core heathens, Slaves BC (who released one of the finest debuts […]
This One Goes To Eleven presents Occultation, Kosmodemonic, Mountain God at Palisades
When, in two months time, we collectively stop and turn our gaze back at the year that was in Brooklyn music, we will find no bigger winners than our thriving metal scene and Bushwick’s newest, coolest 285 Kent surrogate, Palisades. In a year backlit by obituary after obituary, these institutions have turned the ruins into […]