Very few geographically centred music scenes have as unique and unifying a sound as the metal one that has prospered in and around New Orleans, Louisiana. The Seattle scene that birthed grunge, for example, was built around a clutch of musically disparate bands that had certain similarities in aesthetics and attitude. However, there is something about the NOLA scene that is now instantly recognisable.It’s crushingly heavy, mixing low, down-tuned doom metal riffs with the raw aggression of hardcore, while the humidity of the bayou drips like sludge from every pore.No-one has done more to define this sound than Kirk Windstein. The guitarist and vocalist was actually born in the UK, as his U.S. Air Force dad was stationed at a base near London at the time. “My parents wanted to take...
