INTERVIEW: Dry Wedding’s Davey Ferchow on “The Back of Beyond” and Portland’s Most Unclassifiable Band

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Chris Elliott (Cell Arts Media and Black-Angeles)  caught up with Davey Ferchow, vocalist and guitarist of Portland’s Dry Wedding, to discuss the band’s third album, The Back of Beyond, released July 31, 2026, via Vesperian / Metal Blade Records. Davey breaks down the making of the band’s heaviest and most ambitious record to date, how the volcanic badlands, forested valleys, and Painted Hills of Oregon shaped the album’s atmosphere, and what it took to get here after the band’s van and all of their gear were stolen at the end of a West Coast tour in 2023, forcing them to rebuild from scratch before returning to the road only months later.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Cartilage – Operating Altar

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Death Metal has an endearing, crushing quality, but it can also be a genre where finding one’s own path can be difficult. Considering the hyper-aggressive nature that sometimes sacrifices songwriting for brutality, as it adheres to the sometimes monochrome, blood-red sounds of double bass and guttural vocals. Cartlidge manages to take on their own personality amid a genre that can be rather uniform in its sound and dynamic scope due to the common focus on aggression. Operating Altar (Everlasting Spew Records) is a weird concept album that has the crazy spirit of Acid Witch if they were not obsessed with Halloween. These guys are more focused on Carcass-like medical horror.  Continue reading →


Mastodon is Being Sued by The Estate of Late Guitarist and Band Co-Founder Brent Hinds

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According to published reports from Lambgoat and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the estate of late Mastodon co-founder and guitarist Brent Hinds has filed a lawsuit against the band and its remaining members over his alleged ownership interests and the use of his likeness following his death. Continue reading →