Before releasing the heaving new double album The Glowing Man this past spring, Michael Gira, frontman of the elemental New York postpunk/industrial institution Swans, said that it would be the ...

Since Michael Gira put together a new version of Swans, his hugely important transgressive postpunk/industrial band, in 2010, he’s turned that new version of the band into a seething, roaring ...

Even though The Glowing Man offers a satisfying, substantial conclusion to the Swans discography, listeners shouldn’t expect a now-or-never, paradigm-shifting opus — in fact, as far as final ...

In lieu of a conventional single, Swans have shared a two-minute excerpt of “Cloud of Unknowing,” a new song from the doom-rock experimenters’ upcoming album, The Glowing Man.