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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: Tar Pit – Scrying the Angel Gate

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The sophomore album from Portland’s Tar Pit, Scrying the Angel Gate (Transylvanian Recordings), sets Lovecraftian themes against a style of doom that relishes the blues-based jams. An organ haunting the opening track from the back of the mix. The backbone of the song is a lumbering wall of fuzzed-out riffage. This song eventually builds the dynamic into a more metallic attack. Vocalist Don Gozalo brings an emotive howl to the songs. Unlike most doom frontmen, he is not as blatant an Ozzy disciple. This helps set their overall sound apart from their peers.  Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Drouth – The Teeth of Time

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Best known as a meticulous blend of Black and Death Metal that caters to the specific niche of Enslaved, Blut Aus Nord, and Spectral Wound fans, Drouth has been around for some time presenting apocalyptic sounds with brutal precision. Recently, they returned, delivering ferocious aggressions with the release of their third full-length entitled The Teeth of Time–out now via Eternal Warfare Records. Conceptually, this album narrates existentially profound topics and contemplative discourses such as the idea of decay, fate, and entropy, as well as defiance against the corrosion of time. It is also an album that exists as a form of revolt against the idea of nihilism, as a means of creative rebellion coming from Drouth. Continue reading →