Retrospective: Neurosis – The Word As Law
As Neurosis’ second album gets a reissue, we take a look at its importance in their musical progression.
Owlcrusher: Cremation Of Care
We caught up with the bird stomping collective to talk black metal, political indifference, and of course, Buckfast.
Review: Poseidon – Prologue
If calling their debut album Prologue isn’t an indication that Poseidon are a band with big plans, then maybe their ambitious doom metal centred around a multi-stranded sci-fi narrative is.
King Goat: Strange Little Circle Of Life
With King Goat promising a busy and exciting year in 2018, we spoke to them about the themes found in their music, the origins of their progressive sound, the Brighton metal scene and more.
Premiere: KnifedOutOfExistence – Creation For Creation’s Sake
With four years of experience under his belt, Dean Lloyd Robinson – the tortured genius behind KnifedOutOfExistence – is one of the UK noise scene’s most distinctive propositions. Comfortable playing […]
Review: Pyrrhon – What Passes For Survival
So often are metal acts defined as “crazy” or “frenzied” that such descriptions often mean little in the grand scope of the genre, but if one band are deserving of such titles, it’s Pyrrhon.
Boobs Of DOOM: Mutated DAW
Whilst synths and artificial programming are increasingly developing a healthy partnership with droning extremity, it’s still a rare thing that bands utilize these as primary instruments. Boobs Of DOOM, hailing […]
Dvne: Toxic Jungle
Enthralled by the new LP, we spoke to Dvne about its grand concepts, the influence of Japanese animation, and the importance of standing out in modern metal.
Introducing: Herd Mover
We caught up with Herd Mover’s Jake Burgess (Guitars) to discuss the band’s origins, obscure covers, and politely getting rid of the notion of genre.
Anagnorisis: Black Metal Liberation
American black metallers Anagnorisis discuss latest album Peripeteia and how black metal means freedom.
Review: Tchornobog – Tchornobog
It’s a testament to the absurdity of metal that an album called Tchornobog is one of Bandcamp’s best-selling albums from the genre in recent weeks.
Review: Dephosphorous – Impossible Orbits
So, what exactly does “astrogrind” sound like? Well if the third album from Greek outfit Dephosphorus is anything to go by, it’s a noisy and suitably eclectic style of music infused with smatterings of punk, various subgenres of extreme metal and, you guessed it, grindcore.
Review: Dvne – Asheran
Asheran is a remarkably dynamic release that drifts through stoner rock, post-metal, doom, death and prog without dropping in quality.
Alluring: Mourning, Despair and Dead Horses
Those who’ve followed Colloquial Sound Recordings, or the work of its American founder Damian Master, may have been surprised when a release from his doom project Alluring dropped earlier this […]
Bulma: Suicide Club
Having appeared seemingly out of nowhere in late 2015 with his thundering strain of 90s flavoured club production, Belgian based club-mentalist Bulma has been taking the darkened underworld of the club […]
Review: Omahara – Omahara
It can be hard to pin down what it is exactly that listeners appreciate about bands like Omahara, and harder still to do so without sounding pretentious.
