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Buried Treasure and the Walking Ghosts
Time was limited. It was Monday morning and I was supposed to go to work after all, but as I was in New England anyway, a quick run to Armageddon Shop in Providence didn’t seem all that unreasonable....
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Queen Elephantine, Scarab: Snakes and Ladders
Since making their debut on the same 2006 split that marked the first recorded appearance of Elder, Providence-by-way-of-Hong-Kong-and-Brooklyn experimental doomers Queen Elephantine have been...
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Pilgrim to Support Windhand on European Tour
As they make ready to enter the studio to record the follow-up to their 2012 Misery Wizard full-length debut, Rhode Island doom upstarts Pilgrim have announced that they’ll join Windhand on a Fall 2013...
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Live Review: Uzala, Bog of the Infidel, Mount Salem and Mike Scheidt in...
It was a weird kind of night, but I like weird. Uzala were coming from the other side of the country — Boise, Idaho, and Portland, Oregon — and had brought YOB‘s Mike Scheidt along for the tour, also...
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Buried Treasure and the Tales of Massacoit
About two weeks ago, I visited the “Not Just” Rock Expo outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and while I found some pretty killer stuff there, one thing I didn’t pick up was the 2007 Concrete Lo-Fi...
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Pilgrim to Release II: Void Worship on March 27
II: Void Worship will be Pilgrim‘s first outing for Metal Blade proper after signing to the label following the success of their Misery Wizard debut, which Metal Blade distributed via Alan Averill of...
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Queen Elephantine Announce Northeastern Tour Dates
By virtue of their ready drive to experiment, it seems preordained that Queen Elephantine will remain somewhat underappreciated in the wider sphere of heavy, but their droning explorations engage both...
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Pilgrim, II: Void Worship: March of the Paladin
The 2012 debut from Rhode Island’s Pilgrim, Misery Wizard, seemed to come out of nowhere and “happen” very fast. A young trio from Providence, they released a demo in 2011, a split with Boston’s Ice...
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Pilgrim Announce Headlining Tour Dates with Age of Taurus
Still fresh off a lengthy tour alongside Spirit Caravan that took them across the country in support of their new album, II: Void Worship (review here), Rhode Island’s Pilgrim have announced their...
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Fall Tour Pt. 24: Pentagram, Bang and Kings Destroy, Providence, RI, 11.02.14
We were somewhere in Connecticut on I-95 Northbound when the news came in that Radio Moscow wouldn’t be making it back from the West Coast in time to finish out the last show of the tour with Bang,...
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The Obelisk Presents: The Top 30 of 2014
Please note: These are not the results of the Readers Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t added your list yet, please do. This was a hard list to put together. The top three have been set in my...
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Live Review: USA out of Vietnam in Providence, RI, 01.23.15
It had been more than a month since the last time I was at a show, between holidays, injury and family stuff, and I think I needed it more than I realized until I made my way upstairs in Providence,...
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The Obelisk Radio Adds: Sumac, Garden of Worm, Carpet, Sporecaster, The Devil...
The Obelisk Radio server, which I’ve taken to calling the “main computer core,” was down most of last week after some kind of unknown surge in the EPS conduits, so with the data stream running on...
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Live Review: Elder, Mos Generator and Magic Circle in Providence, RI, 03.06.15
It was the release show for Elder‘s third album, Lore (review here), put out and put on by Armageddon Shop, but also the launch for the Massachusetts trio’s tour with Mos Generator, bringing a new...
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Quarterly Review: Motherslug, Worshipper, Ape Machine, Churchburn, OMSQ,...
When I finished yesterday’s reviews, I felt suitably beat, but as ever, there was a bit of catharsis to it too. Today’s pile takes us all the way to the other end of the world and back again to my...
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Queen Elephantine Release Omen Collection of Tracks from 2007-2013
Over the last eight or nine years, and whether they were based at the time in New York, Hong Kong or Rhode Island, Queen Elephantine have had a lineup as fluid and shifting as their output itself, but...
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Quarterly Review: Kamchatka, Legion of Andromeda, Queen Elephantine,...
We’re on the downhill swing of this edition of the Quarterly Review, so it’s time to get into some extremes, I think. Today, between death-doom lurch, drone-as-fuck exploring, gritty aggression and a...
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Mars Red Sky Announce Providence EP
Okay, so Mars Red Sky are running a contest through their Thee Facebooks page whereby if you guess the vinyl color and configuration — platter size, 10″ or 12″ — of their upcoming Providence EP, you...
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Mars Red Sky’s Providence EP Available to Preorder
In addition to extensive tours of the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe between Feb. and March, Bordeaux trio have two releases planned for early 2016, and the first of them, a three-song EP...
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Mars Red Sky Post “Shot in Providence” Video
I could tell you how much I’m looking forward to the new Mars Red Sky EP, Providence, and subsequent LP, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul), but honestly, I don’t think you’d believe me. The...
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