Now settled after after a tumultuous few years, Ba’al are finally ready to play their latest album live.
Author: Astral Noize
Curating Resistance: Iravu
Iravu’s savage music is a call to arms to join the fight against injustice.
Cyberpunk and Doomscrolling: How LLNN Created the Heaviest Album of the Year
“While a great deal of us suffer the indignities of being a wage slave, the elite has dick measuring contests of who can colonise space first. It’s absurd.”
The Very First Astral Noize Video Essay Is Out Now
In the first part of our trilogy on censorship, police violence and the profit motive within the black metal and drill scenes, we examine the commonalities the black metal scene has with the UK drill scene, and what these two things say about censorship and state violence.
Composed for Play Part 2: 11 More of the Best Game Soundtracks of All Time
Concluding our look at the best video game scores the medium has to offer.
Join the Astral Book Club!
Announcing our new book club, starting with a sci-fi classic.
Composed for Play: 11 of the Greatest Video Game Soundtracks Ever Made
Part one of our look at the boundless world of game music.
Vow: “Extinction’s not a done deal yet”
The blackened post-metal outfit talk experimentation, extinction rebellion and the impending apocalypse.
The Art of Magic: The Gathering / An Introduction to Dragons
Exploring the hulking dragons and wicked wyverns of MtG.
Vow and the Gentle Decline Towards an Icarian Apocalypse
A philosophical analysis of two EPs from Manchester black metallers Vow.