Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

Weedeater / Author & Punisher / Today Is the Day / Sierra

Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, May 20

PUBLISHED May 21, 2016

Kitchener's progressive stoner metal doomsters Sierra kicked off the festivities at the Hard Luck Bar, and impressed everyone with the qual...

Kvelertak

Nattesferd

PUBLISHED May 11, 2016

For all their extraordinary success, Norway's eclectic hybrid metal experimenters Kvelertak have found themselves under a great deal of aes...

Grindmother Started As a Meme, Now She's Here to Kick Your Ass with 'Age of Destruction'

PUBLISHED May 9, 2016

Sometimes memes turn into to something more than bits of internet ephemera. Sometimes there's some genuinely good art behind the initial sh...

Grindmother

Age of Destruction

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

The origin story of Grindmother has rather more to do with memes that the average band's creation: Corrupt Leaders member Rain Forest invit...

Gary Numan: Android in La La Land

Directed by Steve Read and Rob Alexander

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

Gary Numan: Android in La La Land isn't about music, but about the internal and relational landscape of the person behind it. The film foll...

Lord Mantis

NTW (Nice Teeth Whore)

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

It's hard to get a handle on what the fuck exactly Lord Mantis think they're doing. After the release of the band's last record, the musica...

Behemoth / Myrkur

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, April 26

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

Solo black metal projects are strange, nebulous creations, the product of one person's creative imagination but also the culmination of a g...

Beastwars

The Death of All Things

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2016

When they released their self-titled debut in 2011, New Zealand sludge lovers Beastwars began an epic trilogy of post-apocalyptic concept a...