There’s a certain sound that you kind of expect to hear when you put on a metal album from New Orleans. The sludge, Southern rock, and blackened thrash styles that a lot of the town’s biggest bands trade in have become synonymous with NOLA metal. It’s a common enough theme in music that bands in…
Editor’s Note: Last summer, I conducted two interviews with people from two of my all-time favorite bands. This interview with Crowbar drummer Tommy Buckley was one of them. Due to issues with my old laptop, I thought the files got deleted before I had a chance to transcribe them, which was a massive bummer. Other…
There are some places around the world that just seem to breed great music. Whether it’s the climate, the attitude of the natives, the local water…some places just seem to be hotbeds for creativity. Anyone that loves extreme music (or Hell, music in general) knows that New Orleans is one of the strongest scenes for pretty…
The last few years have seen a variety of bands long thought dead rise from the grave to kick asses and melt faces once again. Time away from their bands, renewed interest thanks to readily available older material on the internet, and astronomical leaps forward in technology have all brought fans clamoring for the return…
It’s true to the point of being cliche but it really is staggering how many influential bands and musicians have come from New Orleans. Whether you’re a fan of jazz, metal, hard rock, blues, rap, country, or pretty much any and every genre and subgenre in between, you can most definitely find an act from…