Southern Lord Records

Greg Anderson knows how to throw a festival. He also knows how to fuck up your hearing while setting the (often slow) tempo for metal's sounds to come. "I always thought putting labels on bands was really cheap and somewhat belittling," Anderson waxes enthusiastically from the office of his record label, Southern Lord...

The It's Casual formula is simple: guitar, drums, scream. The results of this are guaranteed, a nesting fury and the inspired desire to punch a hole through the spacetime continuum. But in our modern age of bands over layering songs, It's Casual have cut themselves to the core, which is rather original if you look (and listen) around...

Since 2007, Thou have been a massive presence of heaviness. At first they were just viewed as a doom band, but as the Louisiana-based five-piece have experimented over 15 releases, they've grabbed onto feelings beyond bleak and desolate making each release a bit unexpected But the band wasn't exactly the heavy masterpiece they are now when they started...