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  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. …
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  Strange Brew: Metal's New Obsession With Witchcraft, Biker Blues, and Tina Turner

  October 17, 2012 – The last thing heavy metal needs is another witch hunt. But there's no doubt that cult and occult values from the era of brown-acid rock are back: Bands like Toronto flute-doom heathens Blood Ceremony have released the medicine woman from her dark corner in the woods. Holland's nightmare-inducing Devil's Blood even claim to channel their black-mass liturgy directly from Lucifer. …
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  Doom Metal

  October 1, 2009 – In 1970, Black Sabbath drained the blues from hard rock, slowing it into a depresso nightmare trudge with Frankenstein feet. Myriad masters of riff followed suit: Uriah Heep, Sir Lord Baltimore, Bang, Budgie. But when metal turned too fancy for its britches, doom metal had to drag it back to the dungeon. …
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