There are 14 results

• 

  Hear Torche's Blissful New Headbanger 'Keep Up'

  May 14, 2013 – Torche were among those hooky-heavy metal bands that delivered our favorite pop-addled rock music of 2012. …
  Read on

• 

  Rock Music of the Year: Metal's Poptimist Streak

  December 20, 2012 – The last time the Deftones, whose alternately downy and hair-raising Koi No Yokan is our No. 44 Album of 2012, appeared on a SPIN year-end list was in 2000, when the Sacto aggromantics' slithering "Change (In the House of Flies)" snagged No. 7 on our Top 20 Singles roundup. That was, you may recall, the same year we deemed "Your Hard Drive" the No. 1 album. …
  Read on

• 

  Beloved Metal Label Hydra Head Calls it Quits

  September 11, 2012 – After 20 stellar years in the game, Los Angeles-based heavy metal label Hydra Head Records is calling it quits. …
  Read on

• 

  New Baroness and Torche Videos Battle for Your Attention

  July 24, 2012 – The two leading lights of the New Metal Poptimism class of 2012 are simultaneously embracing the most pop move of all — making rock videos! …
  Read on

• 

  Metallica + More: 12 Key Sets at 2012's Inaugural Orion Fest

  June 25, 2012 –  …
  Read on

• 

  Orion Music + More's 5 Most Wrenching Set-Time Conflicts

  June 19, 2012 – "People gotta let us run amok," said Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica when we interviewed him about the Orion Music + More festival he and his bandmates are putting on the weekend of June 23 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. And amok they did run… in the best way possible, judging from the fest's lineup. …
  Read on

• 

  Torche, 'Harmonicraft' (Volcom)

  April 25, 2012 – Three albums in, Florida sludge-pop orgasm Torche are still the gold standard for cotton-candy-coated, cloud-bashing, do-the-Dü bubblegum metal. Their new unrelenting hook machine, Harmonicraft, runs the textures of subterranean doom through a posi-punk prism, resulting in the poppiest album from alternative metal's poppiest band. …
  Read on

• 

  Hear Torche's Epic 'Harmonicraft': Miami's Finest Break Down New LP

  April 17, 2012 – Since forming in 2004, Miami's Torche have established themselves as one of the best, most forward-thinking heavy bands going. The new Harmonicraft, out April 24 on Volcom, might be the quartet's strongest album yet, full of hypnotic, almost poppy melodies, crushing riffage, and eclectic rhythms. It's hard to imagine how a band could make melodic hard rock with more skill or intelligence. …
  Read on

• 

  First Spin: Stream Torche and Part Chimp's Split EP

  November 3, 2011 – This Saturday, Chunklet will release an extraordinarily mangy split 12" between Miami metal outfit Torche and their friends in Part Chimp, a London-based crew of grunge and sludge enthusiasts that are actually gearing up to call it a day. The EP is the latter's last U.S. release (penultimate worldwide) and one set to coincide with their forthcoming tour with the former. …
  Read on

• 

  DOWNLOAD: Latest from Miami Metalheads Torche

  September 21, 2010 – Since forming in 2004, Miami, Florida, trio Torche has won raves for their mixture of stoner metal riffage and poppy melody. On their EP Songs for Singles (out today), the guys have further refined their aesthetic -- the closing track "Out Again" is six hypnotizing minutes of flowing heavy guitar and catchy vocals. …
  Read on