Wetnurse

Flourishing vocalist/guitarist Garett Bussanick is also the guitarist in fellow New York City metal band Wetnurse. It's often said that some vocalists can't sing without playing guitar at the same time or that they can't play guitar and sing...

New York City band Flourishing – featuring Wetnurse's Garett Bussanick- are one of those bands coming up in the seedy underbelly of N.Y.C., and Bussanick was happy to dissect the metal scene for us, from its hipster locales to show series to general jadedness by the locals. "A ...

New York City's Flourishing have a singular goal: to create dark, discordant music with drive, influenced by the fury of classic grindcore. The band's debut release, the five-song 'A Momentary Sense of the Immediate World' EP, is due out March 30 on The Path Less Traveled Records...

New York City and Brooklyn in particular have rapidly developed into a metal mecca of a certain kind -- 'hipster metal' dominates, while the underground is left to its own diabolical devices. The N.Y.C. black metal scene is full of bands that embrace technicality, progression and more often than not, pretension...

"We're Argentinum Astrum. We're playing with one fifth less members than we normally do," disappointed frontman Andrew Morrill told folks at the Lit Lounge on Jan. 4. It was the first Precious Metal Monday show of 2010. You know, the one that is hosted by Curran Reynolds (metal show curator and Wetnurse drummer) every week...

On Dec. 21, while New York City's ground was still muddy with snow leftover from a weekend storm, Torchbearer, Radiation Blackbody, Rising Up Rising Down and My America played a show at Lit Lounge. "We're My America. Some of us are from Delaware...

Dec. 7 marked another brutal night at Curran Reynold's weekly Precious Metal showcase. Dysrhythmia's riff designer and creator Kevin Hufnagel played a bunch of old school death metal and thrash in between hellish sets from Grind Bastard, Edifice, Flourishing and Humanity Falls...

The Atlas Moth hail from Chicago, but at this point in their budding career, they feel as at home in a van as they do on the streets of the Windy City. The psychedelic doomriders have criss-crossed the U.S. multiple times in the past few years, and this time around, they were hauling ass down those 99-odd miles of bad road alongside brothers-(and sister...

Philadelphia's underground metal scene is nothing if not incestuous (in the best possible way, of course). Take for example up-and-coming black metallers Woe, who boast members of Infernal Stronghold, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Absu, the Green Evening Requiem, Krieg and XXX Maniak amongst their ranks -- and there are only five dudes in the band...

Metal has been a lifelong journey for Wet Nurse drummer Curran Reynolds, who also did time as publicist for Earache before branching out to become an independent PR maven! He organizes the New York City-based, Monday night show series called Precious Metal -- and of course, pounds the skins...