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There was probably more anticipation for Prometheus, Ridley Scott's "prequel" to his 1979 sci-fi/horror classic Alien than any film this year. Now that it's out, nerds unite! We meet the Space Jockeys. We find out what the HR Giger-designed ship was doing on that doomy rock of a planet: LV-426...

The almighty Weedeater have confirmed their presence for this year's South by Southwest festival/convention in Austin, Texas. The band will be bringing their fuzz and sludge alongside Rwake for the Tone Deaf showcase on March 20. The last time we heard from Weedeater was earlier in the year when frontman Dave Collins shot off one of his big toes while cleaning his favorite shotgun...

"There is always ... always music going on," guitarist Rob McKinney of Evil Bebos remarked on the house that the members share together in Nashville. "There is always a show every week we're playing." Now not all those shows are for Evil Bebos...

This writer has been hung up on an album that was released in 2007 for months. The album makes a trip to hell seem like a warm and spiritual journey. It's the kind of album that can really change lives and strike epiphanies. The album that I can't stop listening to is Rwake's 'Voices of Omens...

While Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Wino (Saint Vitus), Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep) and Dale Crover (Melvins) were combining their masterful minds below Bleeker Street, a line that included women in tall glittery boots, fishnets and bust-breaking corsets and men dressed just as club-ready was developing outside for a fetish party that was happening in the same venue...

"Happy Halloween -- the best holiday of the year," Phil Elevrum of the Microphones and Mount Eerie greeted Market Hotel in Brooklyn on, well, Halloween. Mount Eerie makes American folky music inspired by black metal. It's some parts pseudo black metal, most parts singer-songwriter like Bright Eyes...

New York City's Blackened Music Series has announced a three-day mini-festival featuring Krallice, Liturgy, Skeletonwitch, Black Anvil, Rwake, Malkuth, Orphan and capped off by the premiere performance of doom supergroup Shrinebuilder. Set for November 13-15, the Blackened Weekend follows in the footsteps of the series' Repulsion/Brutal Truth and Sunn O)))/Southern Lord Showcase shows earlier this

This year At A Loss Records gave us 'Spirited Migration.' Last Monday, the Precious Metal showcase gave us the live experience, when Dark Castle headlined a bill that included Malkuth, the Body and Orphan. The band played two New York City-area shows (the second was a week later at The Charleston)...

They've always done things a little different in the South, and that could not be more true than with the sweat-stained and whiskey-soaked sludge bands that make up the heavy music scene south of the Mason-Dixon Line. It's nothing new really, EyeHateGod has been doing it since 1988...

FESTIVALS GALORE: September looks to be a solid month for amplifier worshipers on the east coast and in the midwest. Krug's Place in Frederick, Maryland hosts the 10th annual Stoner Hands of Doom festival the weekend of September 3 - 6. So far, the lineup includes Earthride (...