Doomcore heightened, rage sharpened.
TRACK PREMIERE & INTERVIEW: Introducing the Bluesy Grooves and Haunting Melodies of Mama Doom
Exploring the smoky riffs and eerie melodies of Mama Doom with an exclusive track premiere and interview.
Review / Vexed – Culling Culture
A fearsome first showing of progressive metalcore.
Album Of The Week / Amenra – De Doorn
A harrowing new chapter for the Flemish post-metal titans.
Grim Fandango Is a Perfect Fusion of Film Noir and Detective Novel
A bridge between the analogue past and the digital future, and an example of the homage bettering the original.
Superior Firepower: A Profile of Digitised Extremity Around the World
We catalogue a handful of artists blending electronic music techniques with contemporary metal to produce something even darker, more extreme or more interesting than what has come before.
Review / World Eaters – Grinding Advance
A broad-ranging and ambitious approach to old-school death metal.
Review / Tommy Concrete – Hexenzirkel
Incredibly ambitious, incredibly rewarding: A prog-sludge opera.
Album Premiere: Eeli Helin – The Lurks
Cavernous and vibrant experimental ambient/drone with an industrial fix.
Review / Mama Doom – Ash Bone Skin N Stone
Grandiose guitarless gothica from New York doom rockers.