Articles by Laura Wiebe
Metal and Hardcore 2012: The Year of Doom
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
More than a subgenre or a tempo measure, doom is an aesthetic, an atmosphere, a cathartically soul-wrenching expression of melancholy that...
Enslaved / Yob / Ecstatic Vision / Kosmograd
Opera House, Toronto ON, March 19
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2015
Every now and then, when the planets are aligned just right and the gods of prog and doom are in sympathy, heavy metal can bend the laws of...
Alice in Chains / Monster Truck / The Pack A.D.
FirstOntario Centre, Hamilton ON, August 22
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2014
Two parts retro and one part nostalgia = the formula for a Friday arena rock show on a muggy August night in Hamilton. Introducing the retr...
Musk Ox
Woodfall
PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2014
The Musk Ox I was first introduced to was beautiful in its relative simplicity — a lone classical guitar capturing (as founder Nathan...
Anathema
Distant Satellites
PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2014
The path leading Anathema to Distant Satellites from Liverpool and their doom metal origins hasn't followed an obvious course, but it has b...
Epica
The Quantum Enigma
PUBLISHED May 2, 2014
At first glance, the title of Epica's latest release may evoke the most counter-intuitive of scientific paradigms, but the "quantum" the ba...
Chaosfest Day 1 featuring Last Scattering, Wretchedpain and Life Before Last
The Underground, Hamilton ON, April 5
PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2014
It's rarely good news when you're planning a music fest and some of your biggest name acts pull out mere days before they're scheduled to p...
Dark Tranquillity / Omnium Gatherum / Exmortus / the Parallax
Opera House, Toronto ON, February 8
PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2014
With its brutal riffs, its aggression, its growls, death metal can (and often does) express the harshest emotions. But metal's power can al...
