Over the last 10 years, the music made by prolific Chicago/Baltimore trio Locrian has always been tough to categorize: Is it noise? Black metal? Dark ambient? Industrial? Drone? Things get more ...

"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 ...

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 ...

No one does ethereal, menacing, and haunting quite like Locrian. The three piece Chicago outfit mix shoegaze, gothic post-punk, and dark ambient, all with an overarching sense of dread on “Chalk Point ...

Locrian's new seven-inch is a further move in the direction of epic post-rock. The stars align perfectly here as the band create a dramatic cosmology rather than a simple set of songs. Like a Beckett ...

Metal is one of those genres with fans who love to debate whether or not a band is in fact “metal.” One band that often finds themselves a subject of these debates is Chicago’s Locrian. It’s easy to ...

Count Chicago trio Locrian among the few bands who not only play music that sounds dark, but also make every note bleed black and breathe smoke. The Clearing could be their most nuanced record to date ...