STEVE ALBINI - R.I.P.

Another sonic titan downed.

Big Black were a WTF? band. The moment you heard them you understood someone had done something new. From a scene that already gave us the finest melodic hardcore imaginable courtesy of Naked Raygun to the splintery weirdness of Breaking Circus here was something monumental, and the import EPs just kept on coming. Their visceral power was seemingly unqu…