The first official photo of Kyuss Lives.

I know that everyone and their mother would love to see a Kyuss reunion, but they’re one of those bands where you kinda hafta stop and consider: What would constitute a Kyuss reunion?

Take, for example, Kyuss Lives, a not-really-new band that will reunite 75% of Kyuss’ original Wretch and Blues for the Red Sun line-up. The missing member, in case you couldn’t figure it out right quick, will be Josh Homme, who will be replaced by some dude I’ve never heard of, Bruno Fevery.

But is this exciting news? I mean, it sort of is, right?

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Black Math Horseman have been around a relatively short while, but have quickly risen to prominence. With Wyllt, the band’s Scott Reeder produced/MetalSucks approved debut, they’ve created a subtle space of OG-psychedelicambience and post-/doom metal riffs and crescendos.

A big part of the band’s distinctiveness is vocalist Sera Timms’ droning voice, occasionally veering over to screaming but usually sticking to singing. In an email interview Sera was kind enough to grant us, she eloquently discusses the origins of Wyllt, working with Scott Reeder, and the current climate of music in the twilight of the record industry.

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It’s been kind of funny to watch Metallica try to be more web-friendly in the years since the whole Napster debacle, hasn’t it? The fucked up part is that they’ve actually done a pretty decent job; I mean, that whole Live Metallica thing is actually a pretty cool idea, regardless of what you think of the band’s output over the past seventeen years.

So now Hetfield & Ulrich Inc. is at it again, and they’ve set up a new website, Mission: Metallica, which will allow fans to “experience the new album before it’s done.” We won’t know what the fuck that actually means (Audio samples? In-the-studio footage? Endless hours of Lars Ulrich contemplating where a Basquiat painting begins and where it ends?) until the site officially launches next month, but hopefully, it will have little to nothing to do with loads, group therapy, Scott Reeder’s alleged lack of skill as a bass player, flushing anything out, or that shitty song from Mission:Impossible II.

-AR