Garbeast is an LA-based #sludge #metal #band steeped in atmospherics and volume-creating #riffs that crash along the broken glass-littered shores, #keyboards that spread and infect the hillsides like wildfire, and a #rhythm section brutal enough to register on the Richter scale. When drawing and analyzing Garbeast’s blood, a direct line can be seen that points to the elder gods, such as Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson, and to the modern masters of Neurosis, Intronaut and YOB, with ...

Music is therapeutic in its presence and absence. If #silence is the lack of any kind of #sound and #music being the sum of sounds coming together, there's remedy in the way the two are in contrast and harmony. When music and silence become one in unison and when your #breathing pattern aligns with the #rhythm of t...

Jacob Alves plays the #drums. The Cali-native #drummer lives by the coast of Santa Monica where he practices his love for #woodworking in his shop while drinking Coors Light and hanging out with his pit bull, Sasha. His favorite foods include pizza and desserts.

Maxx Richmond is originally a #classical #cellist who first picked up the #bass as a hobby, to be later on turned into a masterful skill with restless practice, shaping him into a multi-instrumental talent with refined #technique and grip of the low frequency at a young age.