Death metal will always pride itself on filling up the space around it, especially in its most technical incarnations. The whole human-tornado, beats-per-minute thing is at the core of the genre’s ...

Catharsis burned bright and fast: In its eight years, the Chapel Hill band grew from a heavy and heavy-minded hardcore band to an aggressively ambitious genre bully. They developed a reputation as a ...

Increasingly, many of these experiences can be heard in his group Catharsis. Formed in 2012, the band has just released its sixth recording, “The Hope I Hold” (Greenleaf Music). Catharsis has unusual ...