Seattle WAs Botch is at the forefront of a near revolution in sound in heavy music A virulent strain of progressive underground and sometimes violent heavy metal-infused guitar histrionics steeped deeply in hardcore punk scene aesthetics and the much…

Part of the progressive hardcore underground scene that revels in abstracting the form and blurring its definition with overt metal tendencies and droning ambient interludes Harkonen began in 1995 in Tacoma WA Originally a five-piece with bassist Mat…

One of the Midwests hardest-hitting bands of the mid-90s the Dazzling Killmen never lived up to the critical success of their appropriately named second album Face of Collapse Although the album released in February 1994 was dubbed the number one hea…

Rumah Sakit got their start in 1998 as the lineup of John Baez Jeff Shannon Mitch Cheney and Kenseth Thibideau began playing their guitar-based post-punk throughout their native of San Francisco Without any use for a vocalist the band eventually reco…

Originally starting out as a one-man bedroom recording project of ambient noises and electronica for Thomas Weber Kammerflimmer Kollektief would eventually expand into a six-piece collective by 1999 Along with Christopher Brunner Dietrich Foth Johann…