Engulfed in the Toad King’s Mighty Flame: Inside the Fantastical Doom of Goblinsmoker
Toad rulers and sacrificial goblins meet fuzzed-out blackened doom. What’s not to love?
Weekly Song Roundup: Midnight, Sepultura and Elephant Tree
A collection of tracks to get you through the week.
Conan are the Guardians of Doom’s Existential Void
Ahead of the release of Existential Void Guardian, we sat down with sludge monoliths Conan.
General Grievous / Mth 6:23 – remorseless sludge without the monotony
Dismal sludge from the Russian heartlands.
Albums of the Decade: SUMAC — What One Becomes
These three musicians coming together for a project should have ripped an obscene hole in time and space five years ago.
Old Patterns: SIBIIR on Greta Thunberg, Scandinavian Winters and Fighting for a Better Future
The world’s future looks bleak, and it’s often for that reason that we turn to bands like SIBIIR.
Poppy: What Does the Online Popstar’s Break into Metal Mean for Rock’s Future?
The Youtuber-turned-musician is making waves in the heavy music scene, but is her genre-hopping music a hint at rock’s future?
Mammifer / The Brilliant Tabernacle – radiant atmospherics abound on spiritual fifth album
An empowering listen, supportive in its vulnerability and optimistic in its message of love.
Death Before Disco: Mourning the Loss of Pagan
We say farewell to a band gone long before their time.
A Clockwork Angel: Remembering Neil Peart
Ourselves and a host of figures from the scene pay tribute to a legend.
Video Premiere: TRAPS – Cyborg
You’ve got to respect a band with such a flagrant disrespect for genre tropes…
Astral Noize’s Ones to Watch 2020
We look ahead to another year of brilliant music.
Albums of the Decade: Black Peaks – Statues
Black Peaks have done much to prove that artistic, classy and fearless modern music is capable of making a huge impact beyond the underground.
Albums of the Decade: Batushka – Litourgiya
Heavy with melody, and making good use of dynamics and contrast, Litourgiya possesses something which only the best black metal has…
The Truth, The Glow, The Fall: A Playlist of Astral Pop
There’s a wealth of weird and wonderful sounds out there that sit, however loosely, under the pop umbrella.
Mizmor: Seeking Significance in a World Devoid of Meaning
We dive deep into the latest album from blackened doom enigma Mizmor.
