cult of luna

This drummer was moonlighting from his sludge metal band, playing with one of France's biggest alt-rock bands.

Let the atmosphere consume you.

Cult of Luna, Sleep and Pentagram have been revealed as the headliners for the 2015 edition of the Psycho California Festival, taking place in Santa Ana, Calif.

Swedish art/noise rockers Cult of Luna will drop 'Vertikal II,' a four-track, 30-minute release on Sept. 17 via Density Record. It follows the band's sixth platter 'Vertikal,' which landed in January. The band will also join forces with Katatonia for a fall tour, so there is definitely a swirl of activity in the Cult of Luna camp.

Swedish doom merchants Katatonia will return to the U.S. and Canada this fall on their Uncrowned + Vertikal Tour. Their sound is autumnal, so it's a perfect time for the band to return. Katatonia will co-headline with Cult of Luna, while Intronaut and TesseracT will open the two-week run of major markets.

The Binary Code make an intricate brand of death metal. Drummer Umar Fahim and guitarist Jesse Zuretti have a lot of skill. Watching the two live, it's easy to get sucked in. Rows of people either headbang or study the musician's movements with their jaws dropped...

Yes, France. Most don't think that there are any kind of low churning bands of the open-chord nature in the land of the Louvre -- but the bands are there. "You have to dig to find them," vocalist Oliver Haese of the March told Noisecreep. "There definitely are original and great bands which have their own identity and which make the national scene evolve...

Remember a week or so ago, when Five Finger Death Punch announced that guitarist Zoltan Bathory had gone missing in Las Vegas? Well, Zoltan's finally speaking about what really went down over those three days the band couldn't track him down...