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  • Om, the intense, hypnotic bass-and-drum duo that bassist Al Cisneros founded with drummer Chris Haikus in 2003, has been reinventing the way that many people perceive heavy music. Its songs are cerebral but accessible, spiritual but unreligious. Its new album, entitled God is Good, is out now on Drag City.
  • This pioneering, aggressive hardcore outfit is a band that likes a challenge. With 20 years under its belt, and on the heels of its latest, greatest album, Axe to Fall, Converge frontman Jacob Bannon talks about the realities of being in an active band.
  • Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit
    Rob Swift: The Architect
    High on Fire: Snakes for the Divine
    Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: Ali and Toumani
    Valgeir Sigurosson: Draumalandio (Dreamland) soundtrack
    Rotting Christ: Aealo
  • This year's picks begin with a live album from Relapse stoner-metal stars High on Fire, the long-form beauty of ambient ...

  • While metal has finally reached the mainstream, Oakland's Saviours do their best to drive it back underground. Recorded entirely on tape, its second record Into Abbadon recalls a time when metal was genuinely feared.
  • Despite increasingly miserable mainstream hits (how can the radio get any worse?), 2007 was an excellent, indulgent, fulfilling year of ...

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