tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45775922078802183212009-11-04T12:44:05.211-05:00crustcake is a rock and roll music blog with a focus on metal that borders on unhealthy obsession. we talk about rock, heavy metal, sludge, stoner rock, doom metal, grind, hardcore, death metal, thrash metal, indie rock, stuff that's crusty and stuff that's cakey.These Seanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226241084932664856noreply@blogger.comBlogger864125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577592207880218321.post-13998589971097254812009-11-04T11:30:00.000-05:002009-11-04T11:30:00.312-05:00

Earlier, we blogged that Ex Deo, Maurizio Iacono of Kataklysm's Roman-themed side project, were forced to cancel most of their dates on the upcoming "Tour From Afar" supporting Ensiferum, Hypocrisy, Blackguard and Swashbuckle, due to visa troubles.Well, it turns out Hypocrisy (above), whose A Taste of Extreme Divinity came out in the States today, are having visa issues of their own. One can only

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Every single Wednesday without fail, your hosts post a suitably stale video clip that we think needs to be revisited. Click here for more Crusty Clips. Got a clip you think we should post? Send it to crustcake@gmail.com.by Andrew Wilhelm (Denver)Gothic metal. Now there's a genre that didn't age well. Seriously, when was the last time someone handed you a gothic metal album that you thought was

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by Andrew Wilhelm (Denver)If you love livin' in the past, Denver is the place to break out your bell bottoms and denim vests this week. The Mile High City is hosting quite a few bands who jam out 70s rock unabashedly and (hopefully) unironically.First, we've got Valient Thorr and Early Man on Thursday. Valient Thorr have Southern groove in their blood as if Second Helping is the hippest thing

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Fans of blackened sludge metal, rejoice! We've finally found a band we love as much as Lord Mantis. Indiana's Coffinworm have had their Great Bringer of Night demo available for purchase since early this year, but now they're offering it as a free download on their blog. If you don't have this yet, be sure to grab it now.Coffinworm's first album, produced by the ever-busy Sanford Parker, will

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The "Tour From Afar" is one of mythological proporitons. With alcohol-soaked folk metal from beer drinkers and hell raisers Ensiferum and Blackguard, Caligua-style madness from Kataklysm's Maurizio Iacono's Roman-themed side project Ex Deo, Swashbuckle's tales of booty and scurvy, and the Swedish maelstrom known as Hypocrisy, most of America was set to become a battleground between Zeus and Odin.

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by theseseans (NYC)Sunn O)))When: Tuesday, September 22, 2009Where: Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Brooklyn, NYWith: Earth, Pelican, Eagle Twin12:08 a.m. - The lights went down and the crowd applauded. But that always happens. Twenty-plus minutes of lighting changes and constant fog machine output, however, is fairly unusual. From my seat in the balcony, I looked down on the people in the front row and

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by Andrew Wilhelm (Denver)German black metal is usually associated with the tomfoolery of Nargaroth and countless NSBM clones, but Secrets of the Moon make one hell of an impression. Per black metal's standards, there's plenty of blasphemy to go around, but Secrets of the Moon avoid traditional constructs and inject their form of black metal with plenty of doom and clear production. And although

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Just when you think you've heard all that is heavy, a megaton band like Gaza comes along to show you how wrong you are. The Salt Lake City sludgecore upstarts' new release, He is Never Coming Back, will come out November 10th. Just to tease us, they premiered a new song, “Canine Disposal Unit/The Anthropologist,” a two-fer-one combo on Revolver's Bootleg site.Fans of mind-crushing, chaotic music

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by Van Damned (ATX)I'll keep this short and sweet: basically, we got a nice three-day lineup to transition into November, which could end up going down as THE single best month for metal this town has seen in a whole minute. Stay tuned. This weekend though, we got some classic industrial metal, some classic deranged, psychedelic alt-rock and some classic instrumental post-metal. Plus, time falls

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New York's burgeoning psych-metal/weird-rock purveyors Tee Pee Records (Iron Age, Witch, Night Horse) have announced the recent signing of Montreal's Priestess for the February 2010 U.S. release of their sophomore album, Prior to the Fire (out now in Canada.) The long-awaited follow-up to 2006's acclaimed debut Hello Master (featuring the ubiquitous hit "Lay Down,") Prior finds the Thin

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Aaron Turner, who just got married (congrats dude!), recently posted images of the finished artwork for the Boris/Torche split we talked about last July. The split, entitled Chapter Ahead Being Fake, has actually already been released in Japan under the same name but with different (but badass) artwork through Daymare Records. Still no word on the American release date.Below, watch a Boris music

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[Ed. note: Though we normally pick our Cakes in the Oven from among the newest (or most recent) of releases, we thought Beau did such a good job on this one that we wanted to share it with you anyway, despite its arguable staleness. The album really is as good as he says it is. Plus, Ahab's new record is barely three months old, so check it out if you like your cake a tad more moist.]by

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by Andrew Wilhelm (Denver)PelicanWhen: Tuesday, October 22, 2009Where: Marquis Theater, Denver, COWith: Black Cobra, Sweet CobraAnimalistic. That's perhaps the best word for Tuesday night's bill of Pelican, Black Cobra, and Sweet Cobra at the Marquis Theater in Denver. Metal shows are quite zoo-esque anyway: crazed animals out for blood in captivity. The fact that there were two bands with "Cobra

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by beatmasterspeech (LA)Hey Angelenos! How about that Ancestors record release show where the cops shut it down before Black Math Horseman or Ancestors even had a chance to strum a note? That was cool! I love the police! Well this week we have two shows at official venues that either have a permit to put on shows or have paid off the necessary pigs to leave 'em alone. Stop one should be this

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Chicagoan Blake Judd has announced that his perpetually-revolving band of blackened psychonauts Nachtmystium will enter the studio in January to record the follow-up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I. Judd said the band will again be working with producer extraordinaire Sanford Parker and is demoing some material with him this month. Judd said the new material is "

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Perennial thrash maniacs (and 'cake favorites) Toxic Holocaust have kindly shared with us video of their full April 18, Syracuse, NY, show (back when they were on tour supporting Napalm Death and Kataklysm) for your headbanging, beer-swilling enjoyment. Joel Grind and Co. hardly ever take a break from touring, so chances are they're coming to your home town pretty soon.Tour dates and concert set

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Those acid-tinged, kitchen-sink metallurgists Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are taking their self-described "costumed festival of hyperventilating self-derangement" back on the road for four exclusive west coast dates this November. Some of us here at the 'cake have had the privilege of witnessing the Museum so believe us when we say it's an event not to be missed. These four dates will be SGM's

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Oakland's favorite power trio, High on Fire, have (finally) gone back in the studio to record the follow-up to 2007's absolutely punishing Death is this Communion. Mssrs. Pike, Matz and Kensel completed pre-production with producer Greg Fidelman (Slayer, Johnny Motherfucking Cash) in August and are in the middle of tracking the new record, slated for an early 2010 release.Actually, right now

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Every single Wednesday without fail, your hosts post a suitably stale video clip that we think needs to be revisited. Click here for more Crusty Clips. Got a clip you think we should post? Send it to crustcake@gmail.com.by Andrew Wilhelm (Denver) A friend of mine sometimes says that a band will have "all the right patches in all the right places" to criticize said band playing for style, not

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John Baizley, Arik Roper and Paul Romano are easily among the most critically- and fan-appraised artists in metal today. Each has offered a unique style to the world of metal and their pieces have adorned countless album covers, tour posters and shirts. For us at Crustcake, if something has art on it by any of these greats, we view that as a selling point. Now you can enjoy these artists in the

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All photos by Nick Darrahby The WZA'd (ATX)This year’s metal releases have been peppered with thoughtful, spacey – and lengthy – high-concept records with crossover accessibility ranging from Crack the Skye to Monoliths and Dimensions. Generally, I’ve been happy about them, but while listening to the new Baroness I realized I wasn’t going through my usual motions: headbanging, randomly switching

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Southern Lord are regarded as choice tastemakers in the metal realm. From Sunn O))) to Wolves in the Throne Room to The Accüsed, the California label continues to unearth some of the most outré metal to date, in some cases crossing over to the non-denim and leather crowd.And now Southern Lord has a new act to unleash: Seattle's Black Breath. Raise your chalices of PBR and click below to read

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Good news everyone! Howl will enter the studio to record an album that will be released next year! Their eponymous EP (which you can stream on their myspace) dropped on Relapse earlier this year and we were floored by it. To consider a full album's worth of what we heard on that EP makes our collective pair of pants feel a little tighter. Northeastern metalheads should be excited as well - not

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In "Freshly Baked," we feature promising young bands or bands that are otherwise lacking the attention we think they deserve.by theseseans (NYC)Download: Demonical - "Baptized In Fire" [MP3] “Bringing death to all,” spews Sverker Widgren on ‘World Serpent,’ the second track from Demonical’s latest offering Hellsworn. Whether the mythical serpent in question is meant to parallel the band is anyone

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by Jordasch (CHI)I just wrote a column about auto-tune for a dork-culture blog I write for. I wonder if auto-tune would ever reach the metal world...Could you auto-tune a death growl? Vocoder a black metal wraith-scream? Studio-cleanse a screamo?Oh fuck. You can do that last one.Jay-Z would be happy, then, with the shows in the uh...city of asshole politicians? We don't have a catchy name.

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