How Much Harder Can Skeleton Get?

They’re already the most savage specimen of homegrown hardcore

"...the most savage specimen of homegrown hardcore, given to black metal sonics, slasher film theatricality, and a broad experimental..."

July 27, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 25-27

Your auditory agenda for the next three days

"...twilight world where a psychedelic Ramones and Link Wray-loving Black Sabbath jam in (Thee) Oh Sees’ reverb tank. 2016’s..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Ruthie Foster

"...Chris Stapleton, Mississippi John Hurt, and Stevie Wonder to Black Sabbath. While nine of the 10 tracks on Joy..."

March 31, 2017 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Superjoint Fires Up

Pantera frontman knocks the rust off in tour opener

"...in steel casings with a nod to the quintet’s black metal moniker, Caught Up in the Gears of Application..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Wednesday SXSW Picks

"...of Love, Charles Bradley transcended the club of forgotten black soul men (Lee Fields) and women (Bettye LaVette) of..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Ancient VVisdom

Metallurgy

"...distinctive folk metal, like a sensitive singer-songwriter that data-dumped Black Sabbath instead of Bob Dylan. Three LPs in, acoustic..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

Housecore Horror Preview: Phil Anselmo

Pantera screamer dishes on horror, Danzig, and Superjoint

"...exploited that symbolism in their content. Just look at black metal...."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Arctic Monkeys

"...on AM, with Prince song titles ("R U Mine?"), Black Sabbath scale ("Arabella"), and the gold-ceiling glam of stadium..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Scorpion Child

"...when hundreds of proto-metal bands joined Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath in redefining the art of the riff. The..."

June 28, 2013 Music Review by Michael Toland

Pallbearer

"...its knees. Raised on the reedy, purple-spotted psych of Black Sabbath – and twisting it into darker and blacker..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Chaos in Tejas

"...would be hard-pressed to identify the crossover between the black-clad horde of hellhounds gathered Friday night at Emo's for..."

June 10, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...A-side: "A National Acrobat," Black Sabbath..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Heaven & Hell

Metallurgy

"...a stage prop of burning longhorns. Touching on the Black Sabbath offshoot's entire catalog, from a 17-minute "Heaven &..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Judas Priest

"...Birmingham, England's anarchist answer to the industrial purgatory's other black sheep (Black Sabbath) defined hair metal's immediate precursor with..."

June 18, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Vamping on an Old Folk Myth

Strigoi's surprising take on bloodsuckers in post-Communist Romania

"...bitingly comic Strigoi is akin to discovering a beautiful black rose blooming in the maw of an (un)dying, overkilled..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Out of the Mouths of Children

The return of the Butthole Surfers – don't call it a reunion!

"...Germs leather jacket, and we played Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath for a little while, then Paul said, 'You..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall

"...1966 Founding of the Black Panther Party...."

July 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Greg Ginn & the Taylor Texas Corrugators, Gone, and Mojack

"...one for nostalgia. Even in the early years of Black Flag, the seminal guitarist was evolving past hardcore, incorporating..."

May 23, 2008 Music Review by Austin Powell

Friday Sleepers

"...the Double" still resonate with the lighter-raising spirit of Black Sabbath's Birmingham. – Greg Beets Handsome Furs..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Art for Healing

The stunning art collection of the Dell Children's Medical Center

"..."Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles rather than Black Sabbath's "Neon Nights."..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Heavy Metal Box

Sweeeet

"...– disc two starts veering into the abyss: Dio-era Black Sabbath (no Ozzy here), Mercyful Fate, and British goofballs..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

The Pot 10!

"...8) "Sweet Leaf," Black Sabbath..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature

SXSW Metallurgy

SXSW's metal offerings.

"...suit-and-ties huddled in a corner together, fumbling with their BlackBerrys, and deciding whether or not to lift their devil..."

March 7, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Metallurgy

Metallurgy

"...of the Grave" congregate around the sacrilegious sludge of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Master of Reality. Dragged slowly "Into..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Music Review by Austin Powell

TCB

Rocktober dawns with some troublesome cartoons, another round of Hall of Fame voting, and the Black Angels' delicious drone

"..."Love Stinks" will help ease the sting. That left Black Sabbath, for about the fourth year in a row;..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Chili Cold Blood

Record review

"...Chili Cold Blood is like John Lee Hooker and Black Sabbath stuck in a local elevator. Three white dudes..."

June 17, 2005 Music Review by Martin de Leon II

Nine Inch Nails

Live shot

"...Nine Inch Nails' dramarama. The Dolls' bleak rendition of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" lingered over Stubb's packed-to-the-outhouses sell-out, and..."

June 3, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Squeeze. At times, SPS evokes fellow soundsmiths Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Tortoise. – David Lynch BENEVENTO-RUSSO DUO11pm, Blender..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Did you actually compare Atmosphere to Black Sabbath and that hard rock bullshit to them ["Southern..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column

Down South Jukin'

The South rises again even if Southern rockers deny it.

"...manner not seen since the hemp-happy heyday of the Black Crowes...."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

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