Brooklyn Vegan — by Fred Pessaro // BBG Bloodiest at Saint Vitus, Nov 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) Saxophonist, vocalist and all around Chicago rennaissance man, Bruce Lamont welcomes Beyul today, the new LP from his long-running experimental metal outfit Yaku... more info

Consequence of Sound — A dark, technically churning machine lies inside. more info

Metalsucks — I’ve always thought “avant garde metal” is an odd duck micro-niche. Since so much metal is (ostensibly) devoted to pushing the parameters of form, tempo, technicality, production, or listener tolerance, an “avant garde” for metal is like a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bruce Lamont of Yakuza, with Bloodiest, Aug 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) Chicago experi-metal-ists Yakuza are welcoming their new monster, Beyul, via the venerable Profound Lore Records next week (specifically, 10/16). The record is currently ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Fred Pesarro // BBG Yakuza at Gramercy, October 2010 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) I am proud to announce the official BV-BBG CMJ showcase, going down in Brooklyn at Saint Vitus on October 20th! The show will feature... more info

Metal Injection — It's Friday! The weekend is so close, I can taste it. Then again, that could just be my lunch. Eww. Let's get to the music: Cradle of Filth put out a new song today and…I don't hate it. That's a particularly snarky review of the... more info

Metalsucks — October 22nd will see the release of Lovelessness, Bison B.C.’s third album for Metal Blade Records. Sanford Parker (Yob, Pelican, Rwake, Yakuza, Nachtmystium, Zoroaster, Unearthly Trance, etc) produced this bad boy, so you know it’s gonna be a ... more info

Metal Injection — The weekend is almost here, and we got a ton of tunes to help us get there. New music from Monuments, Fight Amp, Yakuza, Ensiferum and I Am War Djent lovers, get pumped as the new Monuments album is up for streaming right now at RockSound.TV. Their a... more info

Metalsucks — There’s a new Yakuza song called “The Last Day” now streaming over at Pitchfork, and I gotta say, PHEW!, it is an exhausting listen. I mean that as a compliment; the track goes to place I never could have predicted at its start, but it does so... more info

Metalsucks — Speaking of cool live team-ups… Just yesterday, Vince praised “The Atlas Moth’s mindblowingly tight and incredible sounding set” at SXSW — and now comes video of the band performing with another metal luminary, Bruce Lamont of Yakuza fame.... more info