BrooklynVegan, Power of the Riff and Southern Lord Records play host to a free SXSW showcase on March 16th, 2012 at Scoot Inn (1308 e4th St) in Austin, Texas. The free daytime portion runs in conjunction with a four-day Thrasher/Converse "Death Match," featuring a skate ramp with skaters and an assortment of bands that runs all day long. Startin... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
I wasn't fortunate enough to be able to catch the first opening act of this show, but as soon as I walked in to the back room of the Black Cat on Thursday night, I was overtaken with low end bass and bright green lazers as the sludge metal band Zoroaster overtook the tiny stage and enthusiastic crowd that was present. The slow drone of the music formed dissonant echoes, and the front row of eager fans started to headbang in near-unison as if they were worshipping the band on-stage. It wasn't clear [...]
Black Cobra, Zoroaster, The Body, and Morne at Great Scott in Boston, MA on Tuesday, December 13, 2011. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/black-cobra-zoroaster-the-bo dy-morne-great-scott-b/
Black Cobra is one of those bands that when you hear them play you think, "There are really only two members in this band?" Formed in 2001, Black Cobra combines doom and sludge metal with a driving base in hardcore to create a sound that incorporates both fast riffs and slow drones. Signed to the record label Southern Lord , Black Cobra is in good company with bands like Grief, Wino and Sunn O))). With the assistance of Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou and his Massachusetts studio, the band [...]
photos by Samantha Marble [ Black Cobra is] a band of concision, pacing and respect for the ear and attention span, a bassless two-piece that plumps out its low end and whose epics last only six minutes or so... Whatever they do on their records, they can reproduce live, and slightly more vividly. They made loud music in a small room -- in fact, in this ideal dream of a small room -- sound as good as it can. They blazed through [...]
Having just wrapped up a near three-week tour supporting Kyuss Lives! and The Sword, Black Cobra's first headlining tour in support of the new album, "Invernal," kicks off in Brooklyn tonight. The duo will hammer their way around the country on a fifteen-date headlining tour on their way back to San Francisco, the first nine dates bearing support f... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Black Cobra w/ Zoroaster, The Body Friday, December 16 The Drunken Unicorn - 736 Ponce De Leon Place NE in Atlanta 30306 Admission $10 ADV / $12 DOS / Purchase Tickets If you like your music loud and heavy, Black Cobra have you covered from just about every angle. The Bay Area duo can serve up monstrously thick slabs of doom and sludge as easily as they can spin off into a frenzied din of psychedelic drone. [...]
Having just wrapped up their near three-week tour supporting Kyuss Lives! and The Sword, BLACK COBRA's first headlining tour in support of their new album, Invernal, kicks off in Brooklyn tonight. The duo will hammer their way around the country on a fifteen-date headlining tour on their way back to San Francisco, the first nine [...]
Sinceramente si fa fatica, ascoltando il nuovo disco dei Black Cobra , ad essere d'accordo con chi – e sono parecchi – incensa questo lavoro definendolo come una delle migliori uscite heavy dell'anno in corso. Anche perché, se fosse così, i numerosi fan del genere se la passerebbero veramente male. Il duo di San Francisco ( Jason Landrian alla chitarra, Rafa Martinez alla batteria) abbandona tutte le massicce influenze sludge e doom che avevano caratterizzato i precedenti lavori, dedicandosi alla venerazione del metal più puro e muscolare: un po' il percorso che ha caratterizzato gli [...]
Gonna be a heavy-ass weekend in Columbus. Start off with with the sludgy/stoner/'70s-rock Saviours at Ace of Cups on Saturday night (w/ Ramming Speed, Charlie Hustle, and Yeti) and follow it up with the triple, head-bashing triple bill of The Sword , Black Cobra and Mount Carmel at Outland on Liberty on Sunday. Both of these shows are the ONLY Ohio shows on these individual tour itineraries. Take that Cleveland and Cincinnati! The Sword's 2010 [...]
Ahh, it's that time of year again. One of my favorite times of the year in fact. Christmas lights, rampant consumerism, the approaching NFL playoffs, the sun beginning to set before 5pm which causes depression and sickness, and a chill in the air that feels like it wants to choke you to death. Seriously folks, the thing I actually love the most about this season is all of the fabulous "Best of
First off, I feel obligated to preface this "Best of" list by admitting that this posting will in no way bolster my metal cred. If I presented this list to any of my metal friends, I would probably be laughed out of the room. I would prefer to consider this list as more of a layperson's guide to metal, a pair of floaties for those of you willing to get your toes wet in the vast, primordial ocean of metal. That being said, it's been a good year for metal. This year saw major releases from some of [...]
DOWNLOAD: Warning//Warning - "Ghosts" (MP3) Black Cobra at The Studio at Webster Hall ( more by BBG ) In addition to their tour with Kyuss Lives! and The Sword that includes 12/9 at the Paramount in Long Island and 12/10 at the Wellmont Theatre in NJ , Black Cobra have added a round of dates that include Saint Vitus (the venue) on 12/11 with [...]
Black Cobra has just confirmed a headlining tour immediately following the band's previously announced tour supporting Kyuss Lives! and The Sword this November into December. Black Cobra's upcoming tour dates are as follows: BLACK COBRA w/ Kyuss Lives!, The Sword: 11/17/2011 House of Blues - San Diego, CA 11/18/2011 Wiltern Theatre - Los Angel... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
There are, in my mind, two Black Cobras : the radically-detuned, guitar-way-louder-than-vocals- and-drums sludge/doom masterpiece of Bestial , and... the rest of their albums. It's like after that they changed into a more-realistic version of Lair of the Minotaur , mixed with High on Fire : faster songs, more punk/ Motorhead influence.... Bestial to me is, easy, top 20 doom albums of all time. I used to not like their stuff after that, but I tell ya... ...this new stuff is really growing on me. [...]
Upon graduating from At a Loss Recordings to Southern Lord for their third album, 2009's Chronomega, Bay Area sludge purveyors Black Cobra clearly felt that the larger stage dictated a corresponding growth in maturity. Chronomega deviated sharply from the origins of 2006's Bestial, itself a myopic yet effective riff factory pumping out the kind of ...
We have a decent amount of new stuff this week, including quality releases from Skeletonwitch, Black Cobra, Hull, Fuck The Facts and more. This writer's opinion on all of it after the jump. 3 – The Ghost You Gave To Me (Metal Blade) 3 are an odd band to be on Metal Blade. They play [...]
> UPDATE: Colored vinyl now available via Relapse Records ! San Francisco's sludge metal duo Black Cobra officially release their newest record "Invernal" tomorrow on Southern Lord , but vinyl fans are gonna have to wait til' November to get these 8 new tracks of doomy goodness on wax. Preorders for "Invernal" on vinyl are available here now for $18, and should be showing up more places closer to the ship date. Check out the first cut, "Avalanche", of the new album in the video below!
by BBG Black Cobra (photo by Raymond Ahner) Two-man destruction unit Black Cobra returns with Invernal , the band's new LP due on 10/11 via Southern Lord. Invernal holds no tricks or left turns as to what we've come to love about the big-riff guitar duo, just another eight tracks of bulldozing sludge accompanied by a pounding drum assault. There is no dimmer switch for a band like Black Cobra, only off-and [...]
Kyuss Lives!, featuring original KYUSS members John Garcia, Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork along with guitarist Bruno Fevery, has announced a handful of additional U.S. tour dates. These new shows are as follows: November 18 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre December 7 Baltimore, MD Ram's Head Live December 8 New Haven, CT Toad's Place December 9... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
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