The question of which metal band is the loudest has been fertile conversation fodder for metalheads for about as long as we’ve had access to amplifiers. Some may point to the droning menace of Sunn O) ...

With its immersive sound design and understated storytelling, Sound of Metal feels viscerally real. Nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, the film tells the harrowing story of an ...

One of the benefits of being a bona fide indie rock band is that you can cut and paste from other, more firmly established and thus more rigid, genres and not bat an eye. Oh, maybe that whole ...

Although Athens, Georgia’s Jucifer has been putting the rock duet gimmick to good use longer than Jack and Meg have, and have been combining beastly Melvins-style guitars and sumptuous melodic vocals ...

Jucifer's forthcoming 'Throned in Blood,' to be released on their own newly-launched Nomadic Fortress imprint, marks the first time the sludgalicious duo has recorded in winter. "We tracked in ...

Most bands don't have one film on the docket, other than a concert/backstage tomfoolery DVD, much less two. But then there's Jucifer, who have two films based on the band coming out. The first is by ...

Some bands wield volume artistically, turning sound waves into bludgeoning vehicles of expression and tapping into the very viscera of the audience through sheer force. Bands like Swans, Japan’s Boris ...

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Jucifer is an odd bird among the droning doom crowd: It's likely to splinter speakers one minute, yet lull you into a false sense of security with a folksy pop song the next. But live, Jucifer is a ...

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Athens, Geo.'s Jucifer were cranking out thud-rock for the PBR elite long before most of the current breed of densely fuzzed capital-R-Rock bands were even conceived, a fact that's easy to forget when ...