Sometime over the past week or so the following message appeared on the Bandcamp page of NYC tech metal legends Behold… The Arctopus: 2001 – we spawned. 2012 – we respawned. Which would seem to ...

Behold… The Arctopus' last release was 2012's Horrorscension, and before that was an album in 2007. So it's not like the group is pushing out releases every other ...

This past February, jazzy, schizophrenic, experimental metallers Behold… The Arctopus announced a new lineup and followed that with a new song called “Disintegore” in April. At the time, no release ...

Progressive metal instrumentalists Behold the Arctopus have unleashed their seventh recording of playfully weird, progressive compositions titled Hapeleptic Overtrove. As mind-bending, atonal and ...

Anchored by none other than Flying Luttenbachers mastermind, ugEXPLODE Records chief and improvising terrorist Weasel Walter and aided by duelling Warr guitar-slinger Colin Marston (also of ...

I have a theory as to why the most recent Behold the Arctopus record, last year’s Horrorscension (Blackmarket Activities), has been pretty much unanimously panned at Encyclopaedia Metallum. Well, it’s ...

With our NYC Metal Show Calendar growing increasingly crowded with killer tours, it’d be easy to miss some of the awesome local-oriented metal shows coming up in the next couple of months. Here are ...

Burnt Books — Burnt Books? Again? By our count, this is the second in-town show in three weeks, and third in just under a month since releasing its self-titled record. Thankfully, Burnt Books’ burly, ...

Last week, New York instrumental metal trio Behold the Arctopus announced their upcoming album with a question. “Is anyone else tired of how painfully slow metal has evolved recently,” a press release ...

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In the latest episode of Exclaim! TV's Aggressive Tendencies series, we feature Brooklyn, NY avant-garde metal trio Behold the Arctopus. During a recent stop at Toronto's Annex WreckRoom while on ...