Napalm Death

Last Night: Autokinoton, Yakuza and Jesu @ The Marquis Theater

SXSW: Motorhead at Stubbs

Bite Me

Kinda Blue

ZAO

Tuesday, June 1, Rock Island, 303-572-7625

Job for a Cowboy

Friday, November 2, Gothic Theatre, Englewood, 303-830-8497.

Brujeria

Friday, November 28, 3 Kings Tavern, 303-777-7352.

Blast Beats, Dark Harmonies and Monstrous Melodies

The Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of 2006.

Nationalistic

Our music writers pick the year’s national bests.

Agape

Wednesday, August 16, Monkey Mania, 303-292-4370.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Orthrelm

Sunday, March 5, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-0959; Monday, March 6, Monkey Mania, 303-689-1268.

Kreator

Friday, March 3, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Napalm Death

Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 (Century Media)

Cattle Decapitation

Sunday, May 16, Rock Island, 303-572-7625

Georgia Spazzelites

Jucifer makes rock for the Ritalin kid in all of us.

Club Scout

Bassnectar

Morbid Angels

When Cephalic Carnage went looking for success outside of Denver, it turned to the sewers of the death-metal underground.

Out of the Blue

The Blue Noise Band's brilliant amalgam of sounds may make jazz purists see red.

Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of April 20, 2009

As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of a ... More >>

Meet Napalm Death, grindcore's progenitors

As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of a ... More >>

Q&A with Barney Greenway from Napalm Death

Photo: Brooke BullardIn this week's Rough Mixes entry focusing on Napalm Death, we only printed highlights of Tom Murphy's recent conversation with Barney Greenway. The two of them actually had a fairly extensive conversation in which Greenway discussed the influence of My Bloody Valentine and other ... More >>

Over the weekend: Napalm Death at Marquis Theater

Napalm Death, Coliseum, Toxic Holocaust and KataklysmSaturday, May 9, 2009Marquis Theater, DenverBetter Than: A straightforward metal show.The last time I saw Coliseum, the band had played at a warehouse space with Motheater. For this show, even though it was a more conventional setting, these guys ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 11 edition

Photo by Jon SolomonGene Ween, music machine. Welcome to the working week. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the weekend: Gene Ween at the Walnut Room and b.side in Boulder. • Rumors of Tickle Me Pink's breakup completely unfounded. • Wentworth Kersey gives away new CD at St. Mark's. • Tech ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of May 11, 2009<

As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of al ... More >>

Iwrestledabearonce

Friday, May 22, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

The band retains the name

​In the world of heavy metal, lead singers are as indispensible as riffs and distortion--that is, except for when they get used up and thrown away like yesterday's drumsticks. While frontmen are the face and voice of many bands, they seem particularly prone to quitting, dying or getting fired, lea ... More >>

Crawl

Crawl
Cavity Creep Records

Speedwolf

Denver 666/Hell and Back 7-inch
Splattered! Records

Dodsfalla

Death Future
Bad People Records

Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire's Ethan McCarthy on grindcore, running Kingdom of Doom and expressing his angriest, darkest feelings

Since 2005, Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire has been fusing the spiky and hyperkinetic dynamism of grindcore with death metal's unremitting darkness and sonic heaviness. Never content to settle on a mere sound, this Denver band challenges itself to create new depths in the expression of the ... More >>

Low at Larimer Lounge, 12/18/10

Noah Van Sciver​ LOW With Charlie Parr 12.18.10 | Larimer Lounge Fellow Minnesotan Charlie Parr opened the show and brought a classic blues and folk sensibility to his performance. It was a pretty minimalistic, stripped down set-up but if you paid attention to what Parr was doing on guitar, ... More >>

Top ten retro metal bands currently melting faces and minds

​The world of heavy metal can be an exercise in absurdity and uninspired imitation played at blistering volume. With the relatively recent (and fading) popularity of "stoner-rock" and "doom metal," as evidenced by tours including the reunited line-ups of Sleep, Saint Vitus (read our recent int ... More >>

The Descendents

Saturday, January 28, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Weekend's best live bets: Icelantic's Winter on the Rocks and more

Atmosphere makes history tonight by headlining Icelantic's Winter on the Rocks, the first wintertime concert in the history of Red Rocks. Are you ready? This is a weekend to remember. Tonight for the first time ever, the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre will add to its renown by hosting the first ever ... More >>