Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

Tomahawk's Duane Denison Reveals His Canadian Connection

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2013

Tomahawk's latest record, the alternately spooky and searing experimental alt-rock vision quest Oddfellows, is making the rounds and gainin...

Tomahawk

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2013

The members of experimental, metallic rock outfit Tomahawk are very much like rogue planets: each driven along their own trajectory, with t...

Gojira / Devin Townsend Project / The Atlas Moth

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, February 13

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2013

Before the audience's frail cocoon of humanity would be burned away by the cleansing metal flames of Gojira, the Atlas Moth and Devin Towns...

Hammerfall

Gates of Dalhalla

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

Though they originally formed in 1993, Hammerfall's heart have always been in the '80s. The galloping rhythms, stirring choruses and breath...

Ancient VVisdom

Deathlike

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

When describing heavy metal as "southern," it's easy to picture swampy, distorted sludge, sweat-drenched riffing and angry mosquito tones l...

Ramlord

Crippled Minds, Sundered Wisdom

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

Hailing from New Hampshire, Ramlord have combined blackened powerviolence, d-beat and crusty sludge into a bitter, bloody record entitled C...

Tomahawk

Oddfellows

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

Tomahawk, the rock super-group composed of Mike Patton (Faith No More), Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard), John Stanier (Battles, Helmet) and Tr...

A Story of Rats

Vastness & The Inverse

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

A Story of Rats is the experimental drone/ambient project of sound and visual artist Garek K. Druss, who also helms mixed media ensemble Sa...