Watch the Body’s Bloody, Unsettling ‘To Attempt Openness’ Video
Avant-doom unit the Body churn together elements of black metal, drone, electronic music, and classical composition on their latest album, the just-released Christs, Redeemers. For the video to...
View ArticleWatch the Body’s Harrowing ‘At the Mercy of It All’ Short Film
The Body and the Haxan Cloak are a match made in hell, which means if you're into doomy ambience they're pretty much heaven. The avant-metal outfit's "To Attempt Openness" video from last year gives...
View ArticleSPIN Metal Report: The Body and Thou Team Up Viciously, Black Cilice Ooze to...
Last year was a strong one for metal — extreme and otherwise — but the world keeps turning, bands keep writing, and the rent is still due. We've barely gotten past the honeymoon stage with 2015, but...
View ArticleFeel the Pain With the Body and Full of Hell’s ‘The Little Death’
The "nihilistic union" of Portland-based duo the Body and Maryland quartet Full of Hell has resulted in one of the year's most flesh-ripping metal releases, with the napalm-blasting collaborative One...
View ArticleReview: The Body Speak to Our Election-Year Nihilism With ‘No One Deserves...
Even though the pummeling and altogether bleak aesthetic of metal suggests a moribund nihilism, there's a recent resurgence of forward-pushing bands who have captured something almost optimistic, even...
View ArticleParanoia Encroaches in the Body’s Frenzied New ‘Two Snakes’ Video
SPIN just named The Body's new album No One Deserves Happiness our Album of the Week — "[it] presents a familiar (but not formulaic) feeling of exhaustion and resignation," we wrote — and now the...
View ArticleThe Body Get (Even More) Passionate in New Video for ‘The Fall and the Guilt’
SPIN Album of the Week recipients The Body have a new video for their song "The Fall and the Guilt." Directed by Joe Martinez Jr., the black-and-white video is a single, continuous shot of a man and a...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Albums of 2016 So Far
Now that we're nearly halfway done with 2016, the time has come for your annual summer-listening list. Expect to find a tender comeback from the world's foremost purveyors of 21st-century dread; a...
View ArticleThe 66 Best Songs of 2016 So Far
If the album is still supposed to be dying, nobody told 2016 – it's hard to remember a year that was so dominated by the full-length, with seemingly one major LP roll-out handing the baton to the next...
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