Articles by Sarah Kitteringham

Witch Mountain

Mobile of Angels

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2014

Vocalist Uta Plotkin says she was leaving Witch Mountain two days after the release of their fourth full-length, Mobile of Angels, because...

Nik Turner's Hawkwind / Witch Mountain / Hedersleben

The Palomino Smokehouse, Calgary AB, September 24

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2014

Psychedelic, kraut and doom music straddles a thin, and very personally interpreted line between monumental, thunderous, and/or transcenden...

Witch Mountain on Uta Plotkin's Departure and the Band's Uncertain Future

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2014

Recruiting Uta Plotkin, an intern at drummer Nathan Carson's Nanotear Booking Agency, turned out to be a major turning point for Portland m...

Hammerfall

(r)Evolution

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2014

Shamelessly and obviously plagiarizing yourself is a strange thing to do. However, when you look at Gothenburg's Hammerfall, it's certainly...

Opeth

Pale Communion

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2014

There have been numerous glaring indicators of Opeth's transformation from beautiful-yet-brutal death metal band to the less definable "pro...

Mastodon

Interstellar Overdrive

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2014

The lumbering behemoth known as Once More 'Round the Sun is a relative anomaly in metal. Their musical linage and ability is nothing short...

Wordless Invocation Fest with Nuclearhammer, Adversarial, Dire Omen

The Pawn Shop, Edmonton AB, June 28

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2014

It was a humid, inconsistently drizzly evening in Edmonton when the Calgary contingent touched down for the second annual Wordless Invocati...

Mastodon

Once More 'Round the Sun

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2014

It seems there are two camps in the Mastodon universe: people who like Mastodon, and people who used to like Mastodon. Sitting between the...