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Treble Roundtable: Overlooked Best of Decade Honors
Our favorites that were left out of everyone's lists.
The Firstborn is Dead: Two musical epics about Jesse Presley
When two similarly twisted songwriters dive into the same story of dark Americana.
“The Murder of the Lawson Family” is a Christmas nightmare
It's way darker than <i>Die Hard</i>.
Treble Roundtable: The Best Music From Past Years We Discovered in 2019
The results of our crate-digging in 2019.
How “Gloomy Sunday” came to be known as “The Hungarian Suicide Song”
The strange story of one of pop music's most macabre songs.
Treble Roundtable: Horror Soundtrack Wishlist
A fantasy horror-soundtrack wishlist of artists we know would give us serious nightmares.
Shadow of the Horns: Heavy Metal Halloween Costumes
The best looks for metalheads this Halloween.
Lisa Germano’s “A Psychopath” is an arrangement of real-life horror
A song that could very likely keep you up at night, because what it depicts is real.
The murder ballad of “Stagger Lee” created a gruesome legend
A tale told over and over again for 100 years kicks off our new series.
Shadow of the Horns: Metal album covers have come a long way
How metal survived a long period of really terrible graphic design.
Festival Report: Pasadena Daydream
A rundown of the heat, noise, and communal appreciation of music at The Cure's California festival.
Shadow of the Horns: The Best Metal Albums of 1989
A look back at 30 years ago in metal.
Finding Joseph I provides an honest and fair document of Bad Brains frontman H.R.
The 2016 book, now in expanded paperback edition, provides further insight into the punk legend.
Music is a central, horrifying character to Ari Aster’s ‘Midsommar’
In this folk horror film from the director of <i>Hereditary</i>, the music might be the most terrifying element.
Treble Roundtable: Flawed Classics
The albums we love, and the things we don't love about them.
Shadow of the Horns: Celebrating Controversial Metal Albums
Some of the best metal albums that metalheads love to hate.