Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

Fuck the Facts Talk 'Abandoned' and Their New Beginning, Stream New EP on Exclaim.ca

PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2014

Topon Das, founding member of Canadian experimental grindcore nobility Fuck the Facts, tells Exclaim! that the "funny" thing about their "'...

Myrkur

Myrkur

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2014

Anonymity and mystery have long been at the heart of the aesthetics of black metal, with musicians often operating under assumed names and...

Megaton Leviathan

Past 21 Beyond The Arctic Cell

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2014

Back in 2012, the future of psychedelic drone project Megaton Leviathan, and certainly their promised sophomore release, seemed uncertain....

YOB

Clearing the Path to Ascend

PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2014

Since reforming in 2008 after a year of being formally out of commission, the identity and future of YOB has seemed in a state of flux. Led...

Bastard Sapling

Instinct is Forever

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2014

In many ways, the lush subtlety of Canadian black metal stands aesthetically opposed to the Scandinavian black metal tradition of the genre...

Pallbearer Explain the Essence of Hope Behind 'Foundations of Burden'

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2014

In a genre usually defined by grief, unfathomable weight and crushing riff structures, doom metal is not usually thought of as something th...

Pallbearer

Foundations of Burden

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2014

Few debut full-lengths generate the kind of response that Arkansas-based doom outfit Pallbearer were able to garner with 2012's Sorrow and...

Bat Sabbath

Park Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 10

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2014

Bat Sabbath, the "evil twin" of Toronto-based metallic hardcore/hardcore punk outfit Cancer Bats, is the very best kind of joke: one that h...