Photos: Taylor Ferguson Antisocial Skate Shop is one of my favorite venues in Vancouver. It’s small enough to feel intimate, but big enough to let you breathe, even when it’s packed with people like it was a few weeks back for the ultimate underground local show: BAPTISTS and PASSIVE. It’s

Heavy comes in many different forms and shapes! Perth’s Drowning Horse are able to shape their kind of heavy into a storm of emotion that not only crushes you, but also rebuilds your humanity at the same time. They recently filmed a moving 20-minute set inside of the Perth Music Hall that

Mizmor stands for “psalm” in Hebrew, and what a fitting choice for a name that is, as the ritualistic element takes over completely from the very start of their new album, Yodh. The one-man project of A.L.N., hailing from Portland, has produced an excellent series of releases, from splits with

Demons rejoice! King Dude’s latest and provocatively-titled Sex album is full of surprises and deviates nicely from his previous albums. Let’s get right into it, because this album varies a LOT sound-wise. Sex opens with “Holy Christos,” a rock-heavy song driven by crunchy guitars and his echoing, atmospheric vocals. It begins and ends

Lately, I have been listening to loads of HEAVY PSYCH, including the new 11 Paranoias album Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World ! This form of music tends to make me think about the world in a different way. When I combine the art of Robert Venosa and HEAVY PSYCH, my mind begins to melt in all

What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know that at this second you aren’t asleep in your beds dreaming that you are here in this theater? – Montag the Magnificent. Simulation is no longer a referential being or a substance, it is the

Hey Vancouver – KING DUDE is almost here to bring his Luciferian light to our gloomy city. On October 30th, he’ll be playing the Astoria for his “The Devil is Alive in North America” tour alongside Foie Gras and Crooked Mouth, and we have a pair of tickets to give away for

Reggy van Oers (RVO) is an excellent prolific producer and DJ from the Netherlands. His experimental grasp on electronic music is stunning and has yielded a series of great albums, with the latest instalment being his debut full-length Taciturn Manner. In this interview, we discuss his new record label, Telemorph, the