Profile: Descendants of Crom III (2019) September 19, 2019 Shy Kennedy’s Pittsburgh-bred metal band Horehound is releasing a new EP this month. But you shouldn’t expect to catch a preview of that material… Continue Reading
Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Energetic Bursts” July 10, 2019 Guitarist-composer Aaron Myers-Brooks constructs mathy, even obtuse, metal for listeners who appreciate the genre’s technical virtuosity but take issue with its faux-evil strutting and… Continue Reading
Review: Night Vapor – “1,000 Miles of Mud” December 19, 2018 “Dirtminer,” and its inherent sense of grime and mire and dischord, is the template. The opening song on Night Vapor’s 1,000 Miles of Mud — out… Continue Reading
Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Multilinear Smatterings” May 29, 2018 Pittsburgh-based guitarrorist Aaron Myers-Brooks summons up precision-lined metal shredding and keyboard-thrusted polyrhythms on his excellent, new one-man/one-song instrumental single, “Multilinear Smattering,” out last week… Continue Reading
Concert Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks/Radon Chong/Patchwork/How Things Are Made – Brillobox, Pittsburgh, Nov. 20, 2017 December 1, 2017 Time in all its awkward majesty was the unannounced theme of the evening at Brillobox Thursday night, as a quartet of bands performed songs… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Conduits” September 20, 2017 Experimental guitarist Aaron Myers-Brooks, on loan from Pittsburgh post-metal outfit Night Vapor, slants toward the “avant” in avant-jazz on Conduits, the third EP he has self-released in… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Radon Chong – “I Keep On Talking To You” September 7, 2017 Captain Beefheart devotees, rejoice! Shape-shifter Don van Vliet might be deceased but his spirit – and that of his ever-evolving Magic Band – is… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Orthrelm Covers” June 2, 2017 Orthrelm, may God save it soul, shreds to burst an eardrum or 10. And Aaron Myers-Brooks, guitarist for Pittsburgh post-punkers Night Vapor, is no… Continue Reading
