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 year. The bleak funeral doom […]
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 music spectrum by storm. Bulma’s […]
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.
Thoughts From Beyond: The House Show
When big business comes along and destroys your whole city’s live music scene, house shows become the easiest way to fill the void.
Review: Wren – Auburn Rule
Like the swampy puddle on its cover, Wren’s Auburn Rule is dripping in a thick, inescapable mud of brooding heaviness.
The Nepalese Temple Ball: A Musical Lasagna
Nepalese Temple Ball are one of the most fascinating propositions in doom-mongering UK noise. The south coast four piece’s curious genre-fusion has captured the UK doom scene with the ponderous melodicism of their recorded material […]
Dragged Into Sunlight: Barbaric Momentum
An excerpt from our in-depth interview with Dragged Into Sunlight.