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It's been six years since the last one.

In a move that likely won't surprise their hardcore fans, Pelican have announced the "indefinite hiatus" of Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, Metal Insider reports. The founding guitarist hasn't toured with the Chicago post-rock outfit since 2010, and having decided to focus on his family and career, he recently told his bandmates his "heart wasn't fully in" making new music, according

Instrumental metal band (or instru-metal, if you'd prefer) Pelican has filled its summer dance card with a whole lot of West Coast tour dates. The band had purposefully stopped playing shows while it worked on new material ...

Venerable extreme metal label Southern Lord Recordings has announced the next batch of shows in the Power of the Riff live concert series. So far, four West Coast shows are on the docket for August, with several more to be announced. Prepare to be deafened and reduced to dust...

Since the late '90s, Dominick Fernow a.k.a. Prurient has been creating some of the most extreme and challenging noise music to come out of New York City. While there's no such thing as a typical Prurient recording, a number of key tracks feature piercing, wildly out-of-control feedback and distorted, downright painful sounds that could make any black metal fan reach for the volume knob... Read Mo

'Instru-metal' heavyweights Pelican will celebrate their 10-year anniversary with beer. And we don't just mean by drinking it, either. They'll literally have their own beer. The band will play a hometown show at Chicago's Bottom Lounge on Oct...

Appalachian troubadours U.S. Christmas will be releasing 'Run Thick in the Night,' their fifth album, this fall via Neurot Recordings. The band, whose quirky name is pulled from the 1973 Sam Peckinpah film 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,' peddle a "unique brand of psychedelic, high-volume blues rock," according to their bio, but the description sells U...

Someone at CBS must be paying attention! Pelican's song 'The Creeper' from 'What We All Come to Need' will be used in tonight's season finale of 'CSI: Miami.' Those 'instrumetalists' Pelican go prime time? How the hell did that happen? "We were approached by the network," guitarist Trevor de Brauw told Noisecreep...

Mastodon guitarist and vocalist Bret Hinds appears in the latest video by Zoroaster, 'White Dwarf,' which comes from the band's 2009 album 'Voice of Saturn.' The clip features an abstract Mastodon-worthy concept about a white dwarf star that crashes into Saturn, causing aliens to seek refuge on Earth...

Delilah's, tucked in the Lakeview neighborhood in northern Chicago, is a 16-year-old watering hole, established by owner Mike Miller to deliver the "anti-boring." On the first Tuesday of each month, Delilah's offers The Metal Shop, the city's longest-running DJ event, hosted and produced by music industry vet Ron Platzer, pictured above right, flanked by Guest DJ and Terror vocalist Sco