Prepare to Die: An In-Depth Look at the Shared Aesthetics and Communal Commonalities Between Metal and the Soulsborne Series
An in-depth look at how the Soulsborne series has begun to creep into heavy metal.
Flayed Gods, Strangled Suns and Rotting Minds: Talking Loss, Hatred and Horror with Pist
A breakdown of the upcoming LP from Bury quartet Pist.
From Drone-Folk to Goth Supergroups, These are the Dream Collaborations We’d Love to See
From the outlandish and the hilarious to the outright impossible, these are the dream collaborations we’d love to see.
The Dystopia Will be Caffeinated: The Industrialised Clamour of Petbrick
Inside the new psych-noise-punk onslaught of Petbrick, featuring Wayne Adams and Iggor Cavalera.
Photo gallery: Wiegedood live at Boston Music Rooms
Wiegedood, which translates to “Death in The Cradle”, have made some impressive progress over the last year or so having released their first full album and the first of the […]
Cassette Store Day: The Humble Alternative to Record Store Day
If you’re fed up of queuing for four hours to pick up vinyl reissues of albums you’ve already got anyway, why not give Cassette Store Day a shot?
Issue 5: Looking Back at Goatsblood’s Vile Debut
We decided that a band behind such a deliberately volatile morass of fetid shrieking warranted revisiting.
Issue 5: In Conversation with Venom Prison’s Ash Gray on His Hardcore Roots
A chat with the guitarist of Welsh death metallers Venom Prison, taken from Astral Noize Issue 5.
Issue 5: Inside Sunn O)))’s Pyroclasts with Tos Nieuwenhuizen
Inside the vomiting forth of 2019’s second Sunn O))) opus.
Issue 5: Racetraitor on Inclusivity, Police Violence and Anarchist Ideology
An extract from our extensive chat with the reformed rust-belt ragers.
Issue 5: False: “Death to Capitalist Black Metal!”
Songwriting, artwork and synths with the USBM rising stars.
Issue 5: In Conversation with Mariusz Lewandowski
As streaming continues to enjoy its status as most people’s go-to means of consuming music, it’s easy to assume that album artwork is somewhat less important than in previous years. […]
In the Studio: Hundred Year Old Man
A look behind the scenes of the upcoming release from Hundred Year Old Man.
Premiere: Bodies On Everest’s ‘Kicking My Landlord’s Head In’ and Lump Hammer’s ‘Manual Labour’
New music from two of the UK’s best purveyors of bludgeoning intensity and challenging absurdity.
Political Fears, Mechanical Rhythms and Tony Hawk: In Conversation with Copperhead’s David Leonard
A dive into the world of Copperhead, the anarchic, ferocious brainchild of David Leonard.
Russian Circles on Embracing the Heavy and Breaking the Mould
Russian Circles on Blood Year, writing heavier material, and how they may shake things up going forward.
