Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

While never especially prolific in either output or appearances, area sludge-metal band Hollow Leg have nonetheless earned a premier reputation in the Florida heavy underground through their ...

Little Rock, Arkansas sludge metal vets Rwake have announced their first album in over 13 years, The Return of Magik, due March 14 via Relapse (pre-order). Recorded in early 2024 at East End Sounds in ...

Melvins, one of the most influential bands in heavy rock, are returning to San Antonio for a Friday, Oct. 17, show at Paper Tiger. The venue shared an Instagram post Tuesday morning announcing the ...

Like it or not, supergroups are an inevitable part of the music landscape. There’s always a new one in the works, in no small part because they reliably attract media attention even before they’ve ...

In 2004, nu metal was dead and the scene craved something new. Nobody needed seven-string chugging in their lives anymore, giving rise to a generation of balls-out, screaming, technical metal bands ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Courtesy of Conjurer Longtime fans of Conjurer’s anguished sludgy sound might be ...

Sludge-metal supergroup Down played Tuesday night at the Aztec Theatre. Fronted by Pantera singer Phil Anselmo and featuring members of Corrosion of Conformity and Crowbar, the band delivered the ...

Savannah psychedelic rock band Space Coke are aptly named after a scene from the stoner classic “Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie” in which Chong shares a bump of cocaine with Cheech that he acquired from ...

It took nearly 30 years for the founding fiends of Louisiana's indigenous sludge metal sound to re-enter the hallowed halls of Uptown New Orleans' music institution, but Eyehategod — the genre's ...