Metalsucks — Pretty damn soon we will be writing a shitton of shiz about the annual shitfest known as SXSW (Shit by Shit-West), but let’s not forget that plenty more metal comes from plenty more spots in the dirty durty Sowf…….why just the other week the m... more info

Metalsucks — FEATURING MEMBERS OF MELVINS, RED FANG,  JUNIUS,  EXHUMED, RWAKE, ORPHANED LAND, HULL, EARTH, AND KILL THE CLIENT Every year year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsph... more info

Metalsucks — photo by Scott Irvine Admittedly, I am not the resident doom expert at MetalSucks, but for my money, the genre is not having a terrific year. To wit: I have heard two doom releases which really knocked my beard off: Rwake’s Rest, and Batillus’ Fu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Greg Cristman, additional Rwake photos & words by BBG Rwake / Hull (by Greg Cristman) "Hey man, I'm Gravy," he said as he shook my hand. The man was guitarist Kris Graves of Rwake. I wondered whether that... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Rwake @ LPR in 2009 (more by BBG) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * John Oates @ Irdium * John & Scott @ UCB West * Hot Tub @ Littlefield * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicha Libre... more info

Metal Injection — Rwake have never been the type of band to look at a wheel and decide it needs reinventing.  This is not a knock… music is pushed forward as much by the synthesists as the pioneers, and synthesists are exactly what Rwake are.  You'd never bel... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Rwake BrooklynVegan is proud to announce that fresh off of the release of Rest, Little Rock sludge-doom titans Rwake have been added to our show at Mercury Lounge on 10/10, as part of Hull's previously discussed record release... more info

Metal Injection — It's the beginning of the week, and since there is so much more of this week left to go, here is some music to get you through it… Local Philly act The Bailey Hounds posted this video of an intriguing acoustic cover of Pantera's "The Grea... more info

Stereogum — Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you’re a longtime Mastodon fan who streamed their new album The Hunter today and found yourself wondering what the hell these guys were doing. Let’s just say you’re fiending for an ambitious Sout... more info

Metalsucks — Look, I know everyone is excited about the stream of the new Mastodon album, and of course you should be excited. But you should also take fifty-three minutes out of your day to go right here and stream Rwake’s new album, Rest, in its entirety. Bec... more info