In the realm of doom metal, heaviness is king above all. There are plenty of pretenders to the throne out there, but Lycus have proven they are the real deal on their very first album. You'd be hard ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Against the people’s will comes by the sword. No kingdom built on foreign soil is safe. But there exists one ...

Sometimes the sheer mystery of a thing can alone command one’s attention; thankfully for Lycus, they’re shrouded in the stuff. The Bay Area funeral doom outfit has put out very little in the way of ...

For Oakland's Lycus, that was nearly the case in 2008. Initially founded in Sacramento that fall, the group was known as one of the few doom metal bands within the capital city, but having a revolving ...

Anaglyph images can be generated using data acquired by the nadir channel of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, which is directed perpendicularly onto the ...

Though this winter’s been more mild in most parts of the world than any in recent memory, even global warming can’t thaw the crop of frigid metal releases that always surface in the year’s darkest ...

Full data on this image has now been released via the THEMIS Data Releases website. The THEMIS Image of the Day will be exploring the nomenclature of Mars for the next three weeks. Note: this THEMIS ...