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Despite the fact that the crowd was still sparse at the Opera House when they took the stage, Wild Throne put on a vibrant and high-energy s...

The lineup outside the Opera House was still snaking around the building when Japanese noise demons Melt Banana took the stage, and inside t...

As time marches on, something seemingly impossible is happening: the Body are getting weirder, as evidenced by their new album No One Deserv...

It was Julia Kristeva who first explored the idea of abjection, in her book The Powers of Horror, referring to the specific feeling of revul...

Mayan black metal band Xibalba, also known as Xibalba Itzaes (and not to be confused with California-based extreme metal band Xibalba, thoug...

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L.A.-based pop culture junkies Graf Orlock have set the bar exceptionally high for themselves — their third full-length comes after some e...

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As troubling as it is vibrant, Palace of Mirrors, by Toronto-based mad scientists Gates (led by Bryan W. Bray), is a smoke-filled, fragrant ...