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2011 was a killer year for heavy metal and hard rock. New albums from the likes of Mastodon, Krallice, and Craft, among many other acts, floored us and proved that the artists we cover here are among the most stylistically diverse in music today...

In the last few years, Torche have become one of the few bands out there that has both metal and indie music critics going apes--t over. Their 2008 'Meanderthal' album found the Florida-based sludgesters blending fuzzed-out guitars, honeyed vocal lines and a thick bottom end, to winning results...

Torche are a band that there can just never be enough of -- from the monstrous hooks and harmonies that put 'Meanderthal' on everyone's best-of-2008 list to the most recent stoner glaze of 'Songs for Singles.' But after two years as a trio -- the result of guitarist Juan Montoya ending his tenure with a pre-show fist fight with frontman/guitarist Steve Brooks -- the band has returned to being a fo

It's been two years since Torche unveiled 'Meanderthal,' subsequently making everyone add stoner-pop to their musical lexicon, as the album went on to big praise. So here's the bad news: The forthcoming 'Songs for Singles' (due Sept. 21) is not the third proper full-length from the trio, but an eight-song EP...

While New York City's Central Park has played host to the likes of Simon and Garfunkel, the Dave Matthews Band and Bon Jovi, it recently played host to one of the heavier shows to ever play there, as the Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive and Torche tour stopped there to kick off the unofficial start of the summer concert season...

Sometime between 1:30 AM and 4:00 AM on May 14 the all too common tour horror story happened to Torche: someone broke into their van. "Some of us were just a couple blocks away at a friend's house while this happened. Some of our bags were still in the van because a couple of us were out, and were planning on meeting up with the others at our friends house," bassist Jonathan Nuñez tol

"Mike from Phantom Glue in the house? Mike from Phantom Glue in the house?" asked Disappearer guitarist Thomas Moses. It was the inevitable, "I just broke a string" cry for help. Justin Foley from the Austerity Program -- who also played on May 2 at Union Pool -- was already digging through his red and handy toolbox to give the fellow guitarist a new string...

Former Bloodsimple rhythm keepers and self-professed dirty Southerners, bassist Kyle Sanders and drummer Bevan Davies, have joined forces with ex-Torche guitarist Juan Montoya and guitarist/vocalist Charlie Suarez, described by Sanders to Noisecreep as dirty South Americans, in Monstro...

Prog rock fans, rejoice! There's a new Coheed and Cambria record in stores called 'Year of the Black Rainbow.' Like all of Coheed's previous efforts, 'Black Rainbow' is a concept record that serves as a prequel to frontman Claudio Sanchez's 'Amory Wars' storyline, the same storyline that's unfolded across the band's first four records...

This has been one worth the wait. The Athens, Ga. noise/blues trio Harvey Milk have announced that their new record, 'A Small Turn of Human Kindness,' will hit shelves on May 18. The faithful will recognize this title as the name of an instrumental track from the band's long praised 'My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be,' and though that song makes no appearance on this