Stinking Lizaveta

Stinking Lizaveta's instrumental post-rock draws as much on Sabbath as it does on Sonic Youth or Slint. By combining a stoner/doom metal edge with jazz, the precision and repetition of math rock, and the blasting assault of early Black Flag, Stinking Lizaveta -- their name is derived from a Dostoevsky character in The Brothers Karamazov -- come on with a sound all their own. The Philadelphia trio formed in 1994 when guitar player Yanni Papadopoulos and drummer Cheshire Agusta recruited Yanni's brother, Alexi Papadopoulos, as their upright electric bass player. In 1995, the ba...