ClingingToTheTreesOfAForestFire

Denver's Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire will spend most of June on the road, supporting their new album, the glumly titled 'Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation,' which is their Prosthetic Records debut, due out June 8. The band's music is an anomaly -- it's been slapped with the paradoxical funeral grind tag, because it's too slow to be grind, yet too fast to fit the parameters of doom... R

Colorado's Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire -- easily the best metal band name we've unearthed this year -- will release their Prosthetic debut, 'Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation,' on June 8. The band, oft describe as "funeral grind" for its grind and doom tendencies, terms which may seem mutually exclusive, has determined that the music contained on the album will be not only the

It had been eight months since black metallers Withered played a show when they were welcomed to Austin's South by Southwest festival with two shows in one day. The long break was much needed after the band played on tours with Watain, Mayhem and Marduk...