Burial Ground

  Like any child of the 70's, it's been difficult to watch the systematic hatchet jo ...

Through the years, Kylesa has grown in leaps and bounds as measured by each of their succe ...

Darkthrone.  The name itself conjures many different meanings for different people, yet th ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again:  A man cannot live on terrible, screeching inca ...

  It's difficult to imagine that black metal is an agreeable form of musical or cu ...

What DO they put in the angel dust over there in St. Louis, anyways??  Seriously, for thos ...

  Some things are worth the wait.  For many years, it seemed that I was doomed to ...

It would be an understatement to say that Howl simply grabbed my attention with Full Of He ...

Leading up to their second release, Beastwars are faced with a tremendous challenge.  If t ...

The Bone Reader had words with Ryan Lipynsky, vocalist, lyricist and co-creator of Serpent ...

Even though always seems that I'm a fair ways behind on reviewing new releases, I can't he ...

We have here a CD, just a few minutes short of typical LP length, split between a couple p ...

For those of  you who missed part one of this year's Devil's Dozen, TBR selected thirt ...

From the first moment I heard them years ago, Kongh set their hooks in deep and pulled me ...

NEUROSIS’s SCOTT KELLY + STEVE VON TILL meet head to head to head with OXBOW’s EUGENE S. R ...

As of the day of this was written, there are exactly 12 days left in this cycle of the May ...

"Seldon Hunt has been working as an art director, designer and illustrator since 1995.  In ...

Life takes some strange turns, but some things are a long time coming.  Sure, there were s ...

  Some time ago, I came to the realization that although there is a great apprecia ...

The time is always right for good death metal, but there's something about the Autumn that ...

Although they are a strange and reclusive breed, Ice Dragon are equally majestic.  Hidden ...

OK, let's be clear about one thing:  This isn't a record review, this is a WARNING!!!   ...

In the short time since it tore it's way out of the heart of darkness and into the light o ...

Little is known about Regarde Les Hommes Tomber (aka. RLHT).  For those who may be curious ...

From the farthest reaches of space, beyond time itself lies the mysteries of the great unk ...

TBR:  Before we get into talking about the new album, tell us a bit about what went on bet ...

Like a beast let loose from a cage, haarp came tearing out of the swamps of NOLA with thei ...

Hailing from the misty moors of Hampshire, Great Britain, the cthonic doomweavers known to ...

There's a "classic" vibe that prevails throughout the lastest offering from Finland's Hood ...

Norska have been around the Portland scene for some time, though this five-track, 40-minut ...

This is some filthy stuff.  This power trio from Arizona plays a nasty brand of sludge tha ...

This L.A.-based outfit apparently started out in middle school, created some buzz online, ...

It's a known fact that "idle hands are the devil's plaything".  Hailing from Arnold, MD yo ...

The chief of the gods of Pegāna is Mana-Yood-Sushai, who created the other gods and then f ...

Oh, how the might have fallen even further.  This is the sound of sold souls and no shame. ...

There are certain bands that get such a good formula nailed down early in their career tha ...

YOB frontman Mike Scheidt has been a fierce and unrelenting presence in the world of metal ...

Until this point, it wouldn't be too difficult to measure the tremendous impact that Baron ...

TBR:  Indulge us with a bit of history and tell the people how Headless Kross was form ...

I've been wondering for quite some time now... "What the fuck DO they put in the water in ...

TBR:  You guys have gone through some lineup changes since the last recording.  How di ...

What we have here is a tastefully curated and eclectic assortment of 12 split 7" singles p ...

TBR caught up with Peter Adams and John Baizley of Baroness both before and after a scinti ...

Lurk are a bunch of dirty bastards from Finland who have taken it upon themselves to w ...

I remember hearing this story about this degenerate who lived around the block.  As le ...

If you didn't heard already, Mares of Thrace hail from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  One ...

Sometimes, you get what you ask for.  When our request to speak with Eugene Robins ...

"Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Thro ...

So first let's deal with the elephant in the room: a few months ago, with II already t ...

Love it or hate it, it cannot be denied:  Death metal is a genre littered with vast ar ...

Alaric is an Oakland band composed of metal and punk veterans playing apocalyptic post ...

This initial public offering from the Toronto-based trio contains four tunes ranging f ...

This digital only mini contains two tracks initially released exclusively on Decibel M ...

How many "sludge" bands in the last 7 years (or the last 27!) owe COC at least some me ...

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This was a year that was full of surprises.  First of all - and it pains me to say it ...

TBR:  Uncle Acid, tell the people a bit about the history of the band, if you would. ...

Well this is it!  End of the line!  Last stop of the way to 2012!  ...but first, a few ...

Nathan Carson:  Mage of the Western Wastelands.  His tastes are forged of heathen fire ...

Finally, I've written a list for you. I've only recently made a serious effort to keep ...

TBR:  First of all, congratulations on the completion of the new album!  It's the firs ...

Aawwww YEAH!   Split release by our favourite sinners from St. Louis! FISTER and TH ...

Hear ye, hear ye!  What we've got up for grabs here is an AUTOGRAPHED copy of one of t ...

Eugene S. Robinson.  Vocalist. Pugilist. Author. Playwright. Lover. Madman.  Words fai ...

Unbeknownst to the sleeping masses, St. Louis has become home to all manner of dark an ...

While their earlier work has certainly been respectable, few bands have stepped up in ...

It's been said that England gave us Doom and England still does Doom best. Perhaps it ...

As a founding member of Sourvein, T.Roy Medlin is more than a "frontman". As a vocalis ...

The History of Now TBR:  It seems that there was quite a buzz in anticipation of "B ...

A digital split EP by two bands I know next to nothing about other than being somewhat ...

What is there to write about Noregs Vaapen? As a critic, I’m supposed to tell you why ...

"Heavy" is a relative term, right? In terms of metal, this album is not heavy. In fact ...

On 11/11/11, National Metal Day, Nigel Tufnel day, or whatever you would like to call ...

Sailing proudly from the northern Netherlands, Ortega spin a tale bourne of the high s ...

Some places are endowed with a profound and manifest connection to the roots of all cr ...

Among those in the know, Noothgrush's place in the pantheon of sludge was long assured ...

Few record labels are shrouded in as much mystery and simultaneously, inspire such int ...

TBR:  Your first album was a very strong debut but Dead Roots Stirring is a major leap ...

  This track featured on the Memphis Hates You Fest 2011 compilation. K ...

Crust?  Sludge?  Doom?   ...Sloom?? Call it what you will, Open Tomb scratch an itc ...

As I've admitted countless times before, I can be an utterly humourless bastard when i ...

Aesop Dekker was drummer and founding member of the dearly departed Ludicra, a San Fra ...

Every now and then, an album comes along and the experience is so incredibly rich that ...

I don't know that you'd exactly call them "the pride of St. Louis, Missouri" - people ...

  TBR:  So give the people a little of the history behind the band.  How did you guys m ...

Day 3 & Day 4 USF Verftet + Bergen, Norway August 26th and 27th, 2011 My feet ...

Oct 12 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill Oct 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Satell ...

I decided to give Rwake's latest a go based solely on having heard their first album H ...

While much has been made of the "traditional" aspects of the sound that Skeletonwitch  ...

Craft are a band with a legacy to defend. On their awesomely titled debut Total Soul R ...

When we last left our heroes after the release of their self-titled debut, Elder were ...

TBR:  Tell the people a bit about the history of Phantom Glue. Matt:  This band sor ...

If Metallica were the band that lit the torch for me in the early to mid 80's, Mastodo ...

  TBR:  First off, some very cool news hot off the press!  “Roadburn is elated to ...

Garage + Bergen, Norway August 24th and 25th, 2011 Now in its 12th year, Bergen's ...

Rare is the worthy quote from a young band's press kit, but this one sets up our discu ...

TBR:  So first off, there's some big news with the lineup change:  For those who hadn' ...

Boston is, without a doubt, becoming a fertile breeding ground for some new and very i ...

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What we have here is an interesting hybrid of psychedelic sludge.  Recorded in 2008, A ...

Black Cobra's follow-up to Chronomega has been the subject of great anticipation 'roun ...

I was off the shores of the Atlantic cruising slowly on a ferry boat the first time I gave ...

I can't explain why, but I hadn't figured Mastodon axe-slinger Brent Hinds for a side-proj ...

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Endstille are a pretty well-established Black Metal band from Germany. While they’ve been ...

Unless you've been passed out next to the bong for the past several years, you're prob ...

The first thing that caught my eye about "Phantom Glue" was the blinding cover art:  ...

Life is full of certain inevitabilites:  Death, taxes, traffic jams when you're alre ...

     Between Sunn O))) and Earth... beyond lost and found... there is Bong ...

WIN THIS AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO! Signed by  none other than Steve Brooks (TORCHE, FLOOR) and t ...

The pride of Wellington, New Zealand, Beastwars are a band who set out to bring togeth ...

I recently heard Megaton Leviathan for the first time, via a song of theirs on a podca ...

When it comes to Sludge and Doom, there are any number of musicians who have what it takes ...

Vile, repulsive, SICKENING Crust from Portland, OR. BUY DIRECT!  http://hel ...

Brilliant 3-song demo from Oakland, CA's Lycus.  Creative and multidimensional...  the ...

For all of it's primacy, Black Metal has become an incredibly rigid and dogmatic in cert ...

TBR:  Your last LP, "Black Pyramid", was released back in 2009 and got a very positive ...

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Every now and then, a band comes along who refuses to play the game and impose any soft of ...

Liquored-up and drop-tuned, Iron Witch deliver the sort of overproof Sludgecore that on ...

Congratulations to our Bloodiest contest winner Charles Hoffman! Charles has a music-re ...

TOTIMOSHI will kick off a near-month long U.S. tour this August in support of their upcomi ...

Where the sewer meets the sea, you will find the Long Beach, California quintet The Gr ...

I hadn't heard of Desalmado before getting a copy of their upcoming "Hereditas" EP.  After ...

In celebration of the new album, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM will take to the road throu ...

Matt Cameron (Soundgarden) If this surprises you in any way, open your ears, kiddo!  Hi ...

TBR:  The band is from San Francisco, but did you all grow up in the area?  Where are you ...

Balls-out heaviness from Welsh bad boys, Lifer. Although the band's name might seem to be ...

THE BATTLE BEGINS The number of independent bands prowling the internet is beyond stagg ...

Featuring T-Roy Medlin of Sourvein on vocals, “Dixie” Dave Collins of Weedeater on bass, V ...

We here at TBR are extremely excited!! After devoting late Winter season to writing and ...

It's hard to say exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the path of time, Wino has ...

Hey HEY! Got some more free stuff courtesy of TBR and the good folks at Relapse Records. ...

Southern Lord (together with Agipunk, on this one) are on a fucking tear with a ton of n ...

Shame on me. This album has been out for months and I've only just found time to share th ...

Just picked this up from Bandcamp - just one of those things you hear, and right away, i ...

Gut-busting, So-Cal Hardcore...  Cholo style!!   Not to be confused with the Mexican Black ...

New deal Hardcore music out of a Chicago band called Harm's Way.  I hadn't heard of them b ...

While the exploration of uncharted musical waters is truly a noble pursuit, there is alwa ...

Death Metal is an ironic genre.  Much like it's subject matter, Death Metal has suffered ...

Certain bands hold a special place in the shadowy heart of The Bone Reader.  Dark Castle ...

Regarding the inspiration of Jazz music TBR:  During my interview with Dylan Carlson, he ...

It's a cold day in hell when I lift a review straight from the promo sheet but there's a f ...

"Mammal" is an absolutely superb four-track LP from Ireland's Altar Of Plagues.  Delivered ...

Background / NYC, etc. TBR:  Somehow, I have the impression that you're ...

Few are those that understand the depth of meaning involving the ancient rite of `olah - k ...

Although I wasn't exactly blown away by the self-titled debut by Portland's RED FANG, it d ...

...and the winner of or "Spiral Shadow" tour vinyls giveaway is... Undertow129! Hail ...

TBR:  You guys performed recently at Scion fest.  Any particularly cool stories to share ...

One of the prime objectives with The Bone Reader is to encourage people to buy the ...

TBR:  What was it that made you decide that it was time to wrap it up with your previous ...

CONTEST GIVEAWAY:  Special Edition vinyl copy of Kylesa’s “Spiral Shadow”  …signed by Laur ...

To say that "Darker Handcraft" is one of the year's most highly anticipated albums wou ...

...and from the furthest reaches they came:  Bloodiest. They number seven deep:  Ca ...

These days, it's not enough just to do something different.  San Francisco's empyreal ...

TBR:  American Heritage seems to be shrouded in mystery - the history and lore of th ...

Brutal fucking Crust from Vancouver, BC. The band are not out to re-invent the wheel wit ...

Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, American Heritage are poised to smash their way into t ...

Of Legends is "the Metal side project" from Luis Dubuc of The Secret Handshake.  At th ...

Adrift + An interview with Wino TBR:  So I just noticed earlier this morning that "Hold ...

Road Rash TBR:  It's been quite some time on the road for you guys now!  At this poin ...

In a world full of second-rate wannabes, "me-too" copycats and uninspired clones, Beeh ...

Our conversation began with Dylan talking about getting the tour plans together in sup ...

Being The Bone Reader is a dirty job, but one that has it's perks. Having the opportuni ...

Toronto was blessed with an amazing show over the weekend by Kylesa - the perpetuall ...

If there is "nothingness" at one end of the continuum of musical intensity, at the other i ...

If by come chance, you've never heard Torche before, one of the easiest ways to unders ...

What's in a name?  In the case of the case of Elder - a three-piece riff raff hailing ...

Anyone who has been listening to Rock music or the past 40+ years has surely heard the ...

OK, it's January and I'm finally getting around to putting together the "Top 10 of 201 ...

TBR:  Let's talk about the recording sessions for your new record,  "Burning Fortune". ...

After an eight year hiatus, Japanese Death Metal outfit Defiled rise from the depths with ...

TBR: So if I have it right, you started off in BC (British Columbia, Canada), spent so ...

After tearing the roof off of Sneaky Dee's, Howl frontman Vincent Hausman ravaged a ne ...

September kicked off with one hell of a bang! Saturday, September 19th, Lee's Palace hos ...

TBR:  So tell me about the new album!  What's it going to be called and who is releasing t ...