There’s been a lot of shake-up in the Chicago extreme metal scene lately. A hot-spot for often great, always brutal, sometimes controversial extreme music, a bunch of central bands have undergone a ...

We already mentioned that the very different-looking Chicago doom outfit Lord Mantis were prepping their new EP NTW. Now we’ve got the premiere of the title track from that EP, which you can stream ...

I love an evil-looking record cover as much as the next guy, and can appreciate a good schtick, but I sometimes wonder what's really being communicated in the whole package. With Pervertor, the ...

We have sad news to report today as Lord Mantis and Indian drummer Bill Bumgardner has died at the age of 35. His most recent work came with Lord Mantis on the NTW EP which was released earlier this ...

Last week’s sudden changes to Lord Mantis are much bigger than they seem. Why is that? we might ask. For what reason has it felt only like one of metal’s most exciting bands has replaced a ...

Lord Mantis: vocalist Dylan O'Toole, guitarist Scott Shellhamer, guitarist Andrew Markuszewski, bassist Will Lindsay, drummer Bill Bumgardner Credit: Anastasios Ketsios Early last year, Chicago ...

Our little loving laugh with Lord Mantis began in November upon the announcement that their upcoming album, Death Mask, was to be “darker” than their 2012 classic, Pervertor. The idea was too grand to ...

Seventh Rule Recordings has announced the signing of Chicago's blackened sludge tribe LORD MANTIS. The band features members of Seventh Rule labelmates INDIAN and avant black metallers AVICHI, as well ...

I’ve written about Chicago extreme-metal deviants Lord Mantis a couple times already: once last March, when they released their most recent album, Pervertor (Candlelight), and then again for the ...

There's been a whole lot of restructuring going on in the Chicago metal scene of late, with Lord Mantis having revealed they've undergone a massive lineup change that brings in former members of ...