GRIZZLOR Record Release for WHEN YOU DIE EP Oct 4 @ Three Sheets

GRIZZLOR is releasing a 4 song 7 inch on Saturday, and playing a release show @ Three Sheets New Haven!

the Arsonaut - The Blue Pill & Black Draught VIDEO

The Arsonaut are a new band out of Danbury. They have a new music video for their track "The Blue Pill & Black Draught" which they filmed inside, around and underneath one of our favorite places: The Heirloom Arts Theatre!
Check it out!

Sperm Donor, Murdervan, and Beasty at Cafe 9 on 8/29!

You are cordially invited to get your goddamned teeth kicked in on Thursday @ Cafe Nine as the rolling thunder from this show is sure to impact ALL faces in a mile radius. Sperm Donor, Murdervan and Beasty are too busy blasting rock music to care about your poor bruised ears!

Tomb And Thirst - Great Leveler & Precipice (live at Elm Bar)

Here's a video of one of the heaviest bands out of CT, Tomb and Thirst, kicking it hard at Elm Bar earlier this month. The sound on this video is awesome, as is the performance!

Sperm Donor / Tomb & Thirst / Stella @ ELM BAR 8/12!

Are you currently worried that your ears hear things TOO well? Looking to get your face blasted off? Well you're in luck because Tomb and Thirst, Sperm Donor and Stella are sticking their proverbial pennies in the musical socket at ELM BAR on Monday

ovlov - am

Well-loved Ovlov of Newtown, Conn. deliver fully on the strong promise of their first EP's with their debut album am. 10 tracks of blown out, fuzzy haze dominate this solid LP. Clearly it will be ruining speakers everywhere for years to come.

ATRINA / BEASTY / FEROCIOUS FUCKING TEETH @ Anna Liffey's 6/13

Like a few other high caliber local acts, ATRINA are going on tour this summer! Their brief New England tour kicks off Thursday @ Anna Liffey's in New Haven with tourmates BEASTY and local double-drum monsters FEROCIOUS FUCKING TEETH!

Interview with Dave Lutz of Tomb and Thirst

Tomb and Thirst hails from New Haven and has been taking the Elm City on a ride through the world of Metal, doom, sludge, and grindcore. Releasing a self-titled CD late last year they are on their way to becoming one of the premier bands to see in the area. Check out an interview with guitarist Dave Lutz.

Dysrhythmia, Pilgrim and Cold Snap get ready to decimate Cafe Nine on 4/27

Friday April 27, 2012 Dysrhythmia Pilgrim Cold Snap Cafe Nine 250 State Street New Haven, CT 9pm - $8 - 21+ Come join us for this celebration of metal and hardcore in it's many twisted forms. Dysrhythmia, which features Kevin Hufnagel (guitar), Colin Marston (bass) and Jeff Eber (drums) have been waving the flag for out-there, technical, avant garde metal for over 10 years. Their most recent album was "Psychic Maps", put out by Relapse in 2009. Right now they are working on a new album for new label Profound Lore and hope to have it out in the Fall. Look for some more mind blowing musical acrobatics from the band on the new album and live where they promise to electrify Cafe Nine.

Speedy Ortiz - "Taylor Swift" b/w "Swm Fan"

From the ashes of old bands comes new ones. When the members of Speedy Ortiz's other bands split up (the sadly missed: Quilty, Graph and Ovlov) members of these bands got together to explore their tastes in a new setting: SPEEDY ORTIZ.

Elder brings the heaviness to Cherry Street in Wallingford

Since releasing their debut self-titled album a few years ago on Meteorcity, Boston heavyweights Elder took a little break before releasing their sophomore effort, “Dead Roots Stirring”, which comes out on October 25. CT Indie sent a bunch of questions to guitarist/vocalist Nick DiSalvo (the band also includes bassist Jack Donovan and drummer Matt Couto) and here are his answers on all things concerning the band. If you like what you read here, remember they are playing this Saturday at the Cherry Street Station in Wallingford with our favorite local sleazy riff slingers NightBitch and Rhode Island’s Thrillhouse. Keep it heavy!


How does the new album differ from the previous one? How are they similar?
In one word, the new album is a lot more personal. It definitely shows a maturation and a move toward a more unique sound within the stoner rock framework, whereas our first album was more a culmination of different sounds that inspired us. Of course we've retained a lot of elements from the last album; lots of fuzz, a driving rhythm section, emphasis on “heaviness”, whatever that means... but we've also become more complex and melodic, and I think overall Dead Roots Stirring is more akin to a classic psychedelic rock record than the modern stoner/doom one.

Why the long wait between albums?
There's quite a few reasons why the new album took so long. One big thing simply had to do with our schedules. We were all going to school and working, and while Matt and Jack live in Boston, I've moved around a bit. Under those circumstances, we just weren't able to practice that often. Another reason has to do with the creative process, I think we're just slow writers and we like to let our songs evolve for a long time before we put them down in stone (or vinyl, for that matter). Lastly, we had some delays between recording, mixing and mastering, and since we're all busy we had to put it on the back burner for a while even though we were all anxious to have it released as soon as possible.

There aren’t a lot of lyrics on the album. Was this intentional? Were you trying to let your instruments communicate ideas that you couldn’t put into words?
Lyrics are always the last thing to be added to a song, and although they could be written at any point during songwriting – or even before, serving as a sort of thematic guideline – they are not the focal point of our songs. I think that's much more apparent on our first album than on Dead Roots Stirring, where the lyrics are certainly more meaningful (no Conan references!). The sparseness of lyrics is intentional in the sense that I write as many or as few as I think the song needs. I think that the music itself is much more evocative of emotions or ideas than any words. We're at the point where I might call ourselves musicians, but I'm definitely no poet, so we let our music do most of the talking.

What is the meaning of the album’s title?
Dead Roots Stirring is a reference to a feeling of rebirth and renewal that comes after a period of stagnancy, depression, hopelessness, etc. In its most literal incarnation, this is springtime, where the “dead” roots of trees are imbued with life, heralding the arrival of another stage of the eternal cycle of life and death. I think its a feeling that everyone can identify with, and it's that feeling which is the undercurrent to the album, giving it a much more uplifting tone than our previous works. If that all sounds too esoteric, the phrase actually was taken and reworded from a scene in War and Peace, which was inspiring and changing me quite a bit at the time. A lot of the lyrics on Dead Roots Stirring, including the title track itself, deal directly with timeless themes from the book.

Was it your intention to take the album in a more psychedelic direction? It’s also more melodic. Was this done intentionally?
That was 100% our intentions. In general we wanted to, and still want to continue moving in a more progressive and psychedelic direction. Elements such as melody and dynamics are so much more expressive than simple, chugging riffs – even though that will always remain a component of our sound! But as we grow individually, as musicians and collectively as a band, we need to reshape things to reflect those changes. I don't expect the Elder of 2015, if we're around that long, to sound much like the Elder of 2011.

How did the recording process go this time? What was it like working with Clay Neely?
The recording process itself went very smoothly, partly because of our preparations (as I said, the songs were fully fleshed out and ready to be recorded) and also because we connect very well with Clay on a musical basis. It was extremely helpful working with an engineer who was familiar with us live to help us tap into the sound aesthetic we were aiming for. Recording for the first time in a “real” studio was also a bit different from our other endeavors (the split with Queen Elephantine and Elder were both recorded in my basement); we had access to awesome gear and the chance to experiment with Clay's know-how.

What are the future plans for the band? More touring? Trying to make the band a full time thing?
I think our biggest ambitions right now are touring and working on new material. I'd like to keep momentum so as to avoid another huge gap between albums, but the future is too uncertain for all of us right now to say that we'll be able to make Elder into a full-time gig. In any case, we plan on touring the US and Europe at the first feasible moment!

Goatcult Presents:

Elder
NightBitch
Thrillhouse

Saturday, September 24
Cherry Street Station
491 North Cherry Street Extension
Wallingford, CT

8pm - $6 – 21+

40 Watt Sun Make Beautiful Heavy Music

The first thing that hits you is the guitar; it’s heavy and fuzzed out, like it’s bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders. Then there are the bass and drums, pounding out time at a slow, deliberate pace. And finally that voice, hits you, but it’s not your standard doom bellow, it’s warm and emotive, more folk singer, than lord of metal. What you hear sounds familiar in some ways but different in others. It may be doomy in some regards, but it definitely isn’t doom in the traditional sense.

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Patrick Walker of 40 Watt Sun wouldn’t want it any other way. You see while us critics like to label things in the most simple ways possible, artists like Walker enjoy messing with our conventions and give a totally fresh take on a very venerable type of music. In fact 40 Watt Sun, is his way of getting out of the shadow of his former band Warning, who were much respected in doom circles.

“I started Warning when I was sixteen years old. It was no longer representative of me as a person or of the music I wanted to make. It was time for me to make a clean start,” said Walker.

Warning ended in 2008 and 40 Watt Sun was started up in 2009 with the sole intention of writing honest songs that reflected his current state of mind. There are some similarities, but the differences are major. They’re more reflective of the here and now and don’t bother with conforming to certain rules of the genre.
“Well obviously I still sing the songs and write the music as I did before. And it’s “heavy”. These are, I guess, obvious but superficial similarities. I think the music is more “song-based” now; Warning was very “riff-based” wasn’t it? But I don’t like to analyze things. The music is just representative of where I am now, that’s all,” said Walker.

One thing that is evident on the band’s, which also features bassist William Spong and drummer Christian Leitch, debut release, “The Inside Room” (Metal Blade/Cyclone Empire) is that while the music on it does bear hallmarks of doom, there are little tweaks to the formula that make it totally unique. For instance, there is a subtle pop element to it, where the songs just aren’t based around the riffs. They are expertly crafted things, ones that stretch boundaries. But even though it’s poppy don’t go trying to put any labels on the music because Walker isn’t having any of that.

“I just wanted, and want, to write good songs; that’s all I was aiming for. I’ve heard “pop doom” used before actually – it’s not a new one. It just sounds like another pedantic, over-specific genrefication term to me and ultimately more than a little ridiculous,” said Walker.

The vocals are another striking feature of the album. In a genre where most vocalists need to sound angry and raw, Walker’s vocals are plaintive and emotive coming off more Michael Stipe than Messiah Marcolin. It’s this commitment to singing more naturally that gives the album more of a special quality. They’re more human. Just don’t go thinking that vocals were made a focal point of the album, because Walker sees it in a complete different way.

“Actually quite the opposite. After "Watching from a Distance" (Warning’s final album) people talked a lot about the vocals on that album and it reached the point where I felt a little uncomfortable about it; adjectives such as “dramatic” or even “theatrical” would sometimes be used. With the 40 Watt Sun record I wanted the songs to speak for themselves; I didn’t want there to be a kind of “vocal performance” at the forefront of it all. So we set the vocals back somewhat. They certainly weren’t meant to be a focal point,” said Walker.

And one more thing, don’t you dare call the record “sad”.

“I think my issue was with people labeling the record “depressing”, albeit in a “complimentary” way,” said Walker.

So, there you have it. 40 Watt Sun are creating genre free music out of the bits and pieces of different genres. By throwing out the rulebook they managed to create one of the more interesting heavy releases of the year, one that is definitely worth checking out, just like the band themselves when they play Daniel Street in Milford on September 18.

If you are a fan of heavy music, you won’t want to miss this one.

Manic Productions Presents:

40 Watt Sun
Treebeard

Sunday Sept. 18
Daniel Street
21 Daniel Street
Milford, CT

7:00 pm – 21+ - $12

BUY TICKETS NOW or buy them at Redscroll Records 

Across Tundras with Sea of Bones

Friday, May 27, 2011:

Location:
Elm Bar
372 Elm St
New Haven, CT

9:00PM - $3.00 cover - 21+


Across Tundras play heavy American frontier metal, managing to be classic and progressive, dark, and sprawling all once.



The monolithic Sea of Bones open. Imagine three of the Moai statues on Easter Island waking up pissed off and starting a doom band.




Across Tundras tour:

Th May 26, 2011 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool w/ Ominous Black, Yorba Linda
Fr May 27, 2011 - New Haven, CT - Elm's w/ Sea of Bones
Sa May 28, 2011 - York, PA - The Depot w/ Wrath of Typhon
Su May 29, 2011 - Syracuse, NY - Badlands w/ Sparhawk, Rust Empire, The Making
Mo May 30, 2011 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place w/ Sonorous Gale, Dirt Eyes
Tu May 31, 2011 - Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
We June 1, 2011 - Columbus, OH - Carabar w/ Main Street Gospel
Th June 2, 2011 - Chicago, IL - Memories Bar w/ Angel Eyes, Sunsplitter
Fr June 3, 2011 - Cincinnati, OH - Mayday Northside w/ Beneath Oblivion, Valley of the Sun
Sa June 4, 2011 - Louisville, KY - The Green Lantern w/ Below, Stampede

Toxic Holocaust, Ipsissimus, Brass Caskets, Age of Deception

Thursday, January 13, 2010, Manic Productions presents:

Location:
Daniel Street
21 Daniel Street
Milford, CT

$10 - 21+ - 8PM

Buy tickets now or pick them up at Redscroll Records (except for this Wednesday because Redscroll is closed due to the snow).

Must read: CT Indie contributor Thomas Pizzola Ipsissimus article for the New Haven Advocate


bios from Manic

TOXIC HOLOCAUST mutated into existence in 1999, when Joel Grind merged his love for classic punk and metal and the flash of L.A. hard rock into his ideal band. Like his influences - Bathory, Venom, Onslaught, English Dogs, Possessed, Broken Bones - TOXIC HOLOCAUST featured blazing riffs, gravel-throated vocals, and a deadly fixation on the evil in man and a post-apocalyptic world. Grind wrapped all of these elements up with a DIY attitude and begin writing and recording material almost instantly. Relapse Records



Ipsissimus was founded when His Emissary (guitars) and Haimatokharmes (drums) met by providence on 6/6/06 in New Haven, CT, and found in one another worthy vessels of channeling the occult philosophies into ritual Black Metal.
In November of that year, Tichondrius (bass/vocals) completed the trinity. Within a month they were playing concerts and released the demo “Trampling the Host,” a potent exercise in raw, blasting Black Metal.

Over the following years, they established a reputation across New England for technical yet raw live performances, sharing the stage with both local and established Black Metal groups, such as Nachtmystium, Enslaved, Dark Funeral, Krallice, and Watain.

In February 2008, Ipsissimus independently released the “Three Secrets of Fatima” EP, Matching their music to orations of black piety that draw from esoteric traditions antique and modern, often composed in the dead tongues of the ancients themselves, Ipsissimus initiates the listener to a Left-Hand Gnosis with a unique and irrefutable statement of American Black Metal.
Metal Blade Records



Brass Caskets:
CT Hardcore featuring members of Phantoms, Cold Snap, and Crowns of Kings.

Age of Deception:
Reigning from Milford, CT Age of Deception came to be when members of the metalcore shredders Eyes of Creation and members of the New London old school death outfit Cadaversphere came together to conjure up a radical new progressive trash metal project in which there are no limits to our creative vision. In other words, anything goes as far as our sound is concerned.The best way to describe our music is traditional heavy metal combined with brutal death metal breaks spliced with a heavy dose of the European style progressive metal.

Skeletonbreath and Atrina at Cafe 9

Thursday, Nov 18th at Cafe 9, Safety Meeting Records is bringing us a face-melting night with two intense bands.

Skeletonbreath is coming back to New Haven, bringing their unique Eastern European influenced instrumentals with them. Chances are you've probably seen them before and if you have there's no reason you wouldn't be back. For those of you who haven't experienced Skeletonbreath firsthand, you're missing out big time! It's kind of an unparalleled experience.

Long-time site favorites Atrina are the opener. One of the first things ever written for our site was actually an interview with Atrina's Kelly L'Hereux! In case you missed it, catch up right here: CLICK. Their songs are heavy and jazzy, with almost a classic rock vibe, but the songs are always beautiful. They're a long-time staple of the local CT scene and features members of a lot of different local bands. Be sure to catch them live.

Cafe 9
Thurs, Nov. 18th
9pm, $5 cover

Nails, Product of Waste, Sabotage

Wednesday, September 29 2010 Manic Productions presents

Location:
Lilly's Pad (Toad's Place Upstairs)
300 York Street
New Haven, CT

7:00pm - All Ages - $8

Buy tickets now or pick them up at Redscroll Records or DETRITUS


Nails is a 3-piece grind/hardcore assault formed in December 2007 by Todd Jones (ex Terror) along with the help of Taylor Young (Cremetorium), and John Gianelli. With very little internet presence, Nails has spent the past two years winning over audiences of metal/hardcore genres. Nails newest effort titled "Unsilent Death" has sold 1500 copies (CD's and vinyl) in two months with very little promotion and distribution. Nails has co-released their last two efforts with Six Feet Under Records (Mother Of Mercy, Justice, Floorpunch) and have played 40+ shows to date including an appearance at "Sound And Fury Festival 2009" and futures appearances at "This Is Hardcore 2010" as well as Southern Lord Records "Power Of The Riff 2010". Nails will embark on an extensive US tour in the Fall with a European tour in the works. Southern Lord



More Nails dates:
9/28/2010 Church - Boston, MA
9/29/2010 Lilly’s Pad - New Haven, CT
9/30/2010 The Church - Cleveland, OH
10/01/2010 Mickey Finn’s - Toledo, OH
10/02/2010 1108 Main - Cedar Falls, IA
10/03/2010 *TBA - Minneapolis, MN
10/04/2010 *TBA - Kansas City, MO
10/05/2010 Blast O Mat - Denver, CO
10/08/2010 Club Soda - San Diego, CA
10/09/2010 Sub - San Francisco, CA

Product of Waste’s music is the confrontational defiance of Agnostic Front, with the true school hardcore sound to match. Their angular guitar, gut-bursting and piercing vocals easily satiate the primal urge for authentic hardcore



Sabotage
Connecticut Hardcore featuring current and ex-members of Ambitions, Unforgiven, and Crowns of Kings.

Earthride, Valkyrie, Black Pyramid, Nightbitch

Friday, August 6 2010, Manic Productions presents


Location:
Cherry Street Station
491 N. Cherry St Ext
Wallingford CT

$8 - 8:00PM - 21+

Directions

Buy tickets now or pick them up at Redscroll Records.


Earthride are a another incredible band from the Doom Capitol/ Maryland, the fertile breeding ground that has spawned Pentagram, Internal Void, Wretched, Iron Man, Unorthodox, and of course Spirit Caravan. In fact, there's connections to some of these bands, drummer Eric Little was in Internal Void, and singer Dave Sherman was in Wretched and also played bass in Spirit Caravan (along with sharing vocal duties with guitar god, Wino).
Southern Lord



Driven by brothers Jake and Pete Adams, Valkyrie draws from pre-metal style to create a rich and earthy heavy rock sound. They formed in summer 2002 in Rockbridge County, Va. Pete Adams is now also a guitarist for the band Baroness
Meteor City Records



Black Pyramid play doom with the rumbling down-tuned tones of stoner metal gods like Sleep, Electric Wizard, and High On Fire, but with the epic arrangements of old school metal and doom acts such as Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and The Obsessed. Add to the sonic brew perfectly executed forays into vintage psych and progressive rock, along with the apocalyptic lyrical ravings about war, the occult, and general alienation, and you've got an accurate picture of what the band is all about. Prepare to be crushed by the weight of the Black Pyramid...
Meteor City Records



Nightbitch: Sleazy rock-n-roll from CT featuring members of Hour of 13, Ipsissimus, and De Omega. Check out Tom P.'s Nightbitch feature.

Earthride tour dates:
Aug 2 2010 The bug jar Rochester, New York
Aug 3 2010 The elevens Northhampton, MA
Aug 4 2010 Great Scott's Allston, MA
Aug 5 2010 The 201 Providence, RI
Aug 6 2010 Cherry street Station Wallingford, CT
Aug 7 2010 Ace of Clubs NYC

Mammoth Grinder Tears It Up Old School Style

Friday, July 16 2010, Manic Productions presents


Location:
Lilly's Pad (Toad's Place Upstairs)
300 York Street Street
New Haven CT

$8 - 7:00PM - All Ages (21+ to drink)

Directions

Buy tickets now or pick them up at Redscroll Records

The more things change, the more they stay the same. While that may be an overused cliche, there is a kernal of truth to this statement, especially when it comes to extreme music. Right now there is a whole slew of bands chucking the trappings of modernity for the rawer sounds of the past, trying and and with various degrees of success, in capturing a spirit and feeling that is missing in this day of overproduction and overplaying.

Austin, Texas' Mammoth Grinder, who are comprised of Chris Ulsh on guitar and vocals, Brian Boeckman on drums, and Chris Camp on bass, are one such band. They play vicious punk-influenced death metal that harkend back to the genre's bloody roots back in Sweden. But they aren't a mere retro act, as they incorporate elements of sludge and thrash into their sound. But it's all raw and noisy and played with a manic urgency that borders on refreshing.
Their Relapse debut, "Extinction Of Humanity" is only 21 minutes long, but in that time they manage to fit all their influences into one brutal whole. It's a perfect introduction to their filthy and vicious sounding music. They get in, fuck stuff up and then get out, leaving you wanting more.

This should translate well to the stage when they play Lily's Pad at Toad's Place in New Haven on July 16. If you want a taste of what is going on in the underground, or just want something you can go crazy to, they should definitely fit the bill.

Check out scenes from Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain set to Mammoth Grinder:


Opening:

Homestretch is a hardcore band from Miami, Florida. For fans of 108, Ink and Dagger, Ringworm, and Converge. Cassette out now on Drugged Conscience.

Brass Caskets:
CT Hardcore featuring members of Phantoms, Cold Snap, & Crowns of Kings.

Glue Machine:
New Haven punk. members of Dead Uncles, Estrogen Highs, Iron Hand.

Ferocious Fucking Teeth:
CT stoner rock. members of Total Bolshevics, Brava Spectre & A Trillion Gallons of Gas.

Jucifer, Old Man Lady Luck, Gloominous Doom, Electric Bucket

Tuesday, June 29 2010, Manic Productions presents:



Location:
Daniel Street
21 Daniel Street
Milford CT

$8 - 8:00PM - 21+

Directions

Buy tickets now or pick them up at Redscroll Records

Jucifer, founded in Georgia in 1993, are pioneers of the sludge/doom metal two piece. They are notorious for their use of massive amplification, and for their entirely nomadic lifestyle since moving into their tour vehicle a decade ago. Early on, Jucifer shared stages with many underground legends, including Lubricated Goat, Bloodloss (Mark Arm/Mudhoney), Melt Banana, Melvins and Eyehategod. Years based in Athens, Georgia from 1991 until 2001 were pivotal both for Jucifer and the Southern scene itself, which has evolved to strongly reflect bands such as Jucifer and contemporaries Harvey Milk. Relapse Records

Old Man Lady Luck:
New Haven supergroup featuring members of The Vultures, Humanoid, The Black Noise Scam, Murdervan, Bloarzeyd, and Atrina.

Gloominous Doom’s metal thrashing reggae madness first reared its ugly head in late 2005, when Jeremiah Stoyer (drums), Chris Bewley (guitar), Austin Ernst (bass/vocals) and Floyd “Bone” Rhodes (guitar/vocals) inducted Jeff Kruppenbach into their doomed cult to man the mic (and play a mean cowbell!). Born of booze, blood, and Black Sabbath.

Electric Bucket:
Punk/noise/garage rock band from Milford, CT. The quartet features 3/4 of New Haven's infamous Carlos Projeckt with lead vocalist/wildcat Steph Brown! The bucket's unique sound features barbarian spazz drums, fuzzed-out psycho bass lines, bird warrior guitar attacks and girl-on-guy screaming!

Eyehategod, Nachtmystium, Howl, Ipsissimus, Iron Hand

Monday, June 14, 2010, Manic Productions brings:


Location:
Daniel Street
21 Daniel Street
Milford CT

$16 - 7:00PM - 21+

Directions

Buy tickets now or grab some at Redscroll Records

Eyehategod is a sludge band from New Orleans, Louisiana who are known for their dark, sludgy riffs combined with equally dark lyrics. Like many sludge metal bands, Eyehategod draw on both stoner rock / doom metal influences as well as hardcore punk. Formed in 1988. Eyehategod have noted Melvins, Black Flag, Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath as key influences to their sound. This, combined with heavy, detuned, and bluesy riffs dominate the band’s sound. They are combined with walls of feedback and distinctive tortured vocals to create a truly misanthropic vibe.
Emetic/Century Media

Nachtmystium is a psychedelic metal band from Illinois that has featured members from other american black metal acts such as Weltmacht, Krieg, and Judas Iscariot. Formed in 1999 by guitarist Blake Judd (aka Azentrius), Nachtmystium debuted with their first demo, Holocaust of Eternity, and a split with USBM band Zalnik. Their first full-length, Reign of the Malicious, was released in 2002, and since then, they have released 4 EPs.
Century Media

Howl is a four-piece furious, bone-crushing, head-splitting doom metal band from Providence.
Relapse Records

Ipsissimus are CT black metal. Ex-members of Catalyst.

New Haven's Iron Hand plays a style of crust/d-beat hardcore with Scandinavian punk influences and lyrics depicting the dark, despondent tendencies of human nature. Played at a furious pace with noted precision, their musical intensity is not to be underestimated.