Over the past few months Locrian have quietly released two of 2010's best albums. They're not a quiet band, but the project of André Foisy and Terence Hannum -- whichexpands and contracts depending on ...

Over the last 10 years, the music made by prolific Chicago/Baltimore trio Locrian has always been tough to categorize: Is it noise? Black metal? Dark ambient? Industrial? Drone? Things get more ...

Locrian recently released another three videos (!) from their haunting new long-player The Crystal World (art above). Dig on “Extinction” and “Triumph of Elimination” as well as “Obsidian Facades”, ...

Metal is one of those genres with fans who love to debate whether or not a band is in fact “metal.” One band that often finds themselves a subject of these debates is Chicago’s Locrian. It’s easy to ...

"Why music?" It comes off like a Philosophy 101 essay question at first, but the more I twist my head around it, the more it causes a volcanic hurl of thought: Why do I love music? Why do I write ...

Metal music often exists at an odd intersection between cathartic, lowbrow lunkhead aggression and adventurous arty abstraction. Since the mid-2000s, the members of Locrian—vocalist and synthesizer ...

More than previous efforts, this record works best as a whole, but "Wrath of Heaven" is a fine place to start. The track slowly layers a pulsing synth, E-bowed guitar, multichannel panning and a ...

“This album sounds a lot like the way the abandoned parts of Detroit look.” Few bands would take this statement as a compliment, but Locrian guitarist Andre Foisy sounds genuinely pleased when he ...

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