“It was a difficult second album. But it made me feel less alone.” – the Svalbard guitarist/vocalist bares all on their sophomore effort.
Author: Astral Noize
Albums of the Decade: Pallbearer – Heartless
The attention to detail, the confidence to subtly incorporate other influences into their sound and also the band’s willingness to wear their hearts on their sleeves makes Heartless one of the defining albums of the past decade.
Albums of the Decade: Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction
A cataclysmic slab of stomach-churning prowess which never shies away from spreading its noxious wings.
Podcast: Criminally Underrated Episode 7
Episode Seven of Criminally Underrated Music Podcast, presented by Astral Noize and hosted by Aerosol Jesus frontman Oli Melville, is now online for your listening pleasure! This episode features National Funk, Kurokuma, Under, Abstract Void, Tides […]
Premiere: Mairu – Wild Darkened Eyes
Celebrate Mairu’s signing to Trepanation Recordings with an exclusive stream of their new single.
Albums of the Decade: While She Sleeps – This Is The Six
A gateway album we needed in a decade sorely lacking in them.
Albums of the Decade: Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
Oranssi Pazuzu have done it. They’ve made metal unpredictable and free spirited again.
Photo Gallery: A Horse Called War, Tellus Effluentia, Wallowing & Sky:Lark! at The Dev
A host of pictures from a glorious night of heavy music in Camden.
Albums of the Decade: Arcane Roots – Blood & Chemistry
Arcane Roots’ debut displayed the kind of defiant innovation that many can only dream of.
Albums of the Decade: Fen – Winter
If the world is just, Fen’s Winter will one day be spoken of with reverence.