If Toronto's Broken Social Scene were to ever have a metal counterpart, it would have to be Respire. The collective's combination of orchestral strings, black metal, skramz and everything else under ...

Not long before midnight on a recent Saturday evening at the Blacklight District Lounge in Long Beach, a string-based quintet tuned their instruments behind the lingering smoke of incense and a ...

New Orleans orchestral metal band Anareta's debut single is filled with despair. Opening with darkly beautiful strings, "Locality" builds with intensity until vocalist Sarah Jacques wails into the air ...

Tomas Franzese is a News Editor at DualShockers, writing a variety of reviews and shedding light on upcoming games for both PC and consoles. While he has been a gamer most of his life, he began ...

Anareta’s “Fear Not” is beautiful and full of terror. Intertwining chamber music and crushing doom metal, the New Orleans band’s debut album, out April 8 ...