The Locrian mode is one of the most sonically challenging sounds in music. And, though built on the major scale, this mode sounds totally removed from its parent scale's bright, happy vibes. Most ...

"Why music?" It comes off like a Philosophy 101 essay question at first, but the more I twist my head around it, the more it causes a volcanic hurl of thought: Why do I love music? Why do I write ...

Metal music often exists at an odd intersection between cathartic, lowbrow lunkhead aggression and adventurous arty abstraction. Since the mid-2000s, the members of Locrian—vocalist and synthesizer ...

More than previous efforts, this record works best as a whole, but "Wrath of Heaven" is a fine place to start. The track slowly layers a pulsing synth, E-bowed guitar, multichannel panning and a ...

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In last month’s Black Market, we named the Locrian track “Eternal Return” the second-best new metal song to be released in May. “Eternal Return” is a pretty bold advancement of Locrian’s sound, and ...

Over the past few months Locrian have quietly released two of 2010's best albums. They're not a quiet band, but the project of André Foisy and Terence Hannum -- which expands and contracts depending ...