Reviews Round-Up 005: A Plethora of Forward-Thinking Extreme Metal
Featuring YOB’s transcendental new album, Here Lies Man’s second offering, and the return of Orange Goblin.
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Review: Bridge Burner – Null Apostle
Experimentation and careful songwriting has lead to an impressive debut LP that answers to no one but itself.
Inside The Body’s I Have Fought Against It But I Can’t Any Longer.
The Body’s Lee Bufford helps us take a deeper insight into the duo’s latest LP.
Blues, Improv and The Infantile Greed of the Human Race: A Deeper Look at Noisepicker’s Peace Off
The man behind the noisepicking gives us a rundown of the duo’s debut album.
Voices: Taking Dark Inspiration from an Urban Landscape
Voices’ Sam Loynes discloses details about their colossal new LP, Frightened.
Retrospective: Nile – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Twenty years on, we revisit a ’90s death metal classic.
Album Premiere: Bodies On Everest – A National Day Of Mourning
An exclusive stream of the new BOE album, complete with an in-depth interview.
Review: Messa – Feast For Water
Occult doom and classy jazz collide on the latest LP from Italian quartet Messa.
Review: Rivers Of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name
Rivers Of Nihil push death metal into progressive new territories on their third LP.
Astral Noize’s Top 21 Releases Of 2017
2017 has been a strange year at best – overshadowed by a sense of impending doom, it was inevitable that music’s dark side would rise again this year. And rise again it has.
Review: BongCauldron – Binge
Leeds trio BongCauldron have crafted a distinct style yet managed to stay true to their doomy vision, birthing one hell of a debut LP in the process.
Review: Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard
The latest instalment in the Leccy Wiz saga sees the band’s signature fuzz take a step back, allowing its riffs to take centre stage.
Review: Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
As challenging for its palpably raw emotion as it is for its heavy musical style, Mirror Reaper is a colossal album bound to take its place amongst only the most elite of the doom metal genre’s well-stocked history.
Review: Enslaved – E
E is not the first time the Norwegian group has taken a good look at their sound before rebuilding it brick-by-brick, but it is one of the more noteworthy times.
Review: Primitive Man – Caustic
Listening to Caustic start-to-finish is much like being dropped into a tomb lined with the bones of previous victims, as your captures go on to torture you in increasingly new and painful ways. Except, this is metal, so it’s enjoyable.
Review: Black Sabbath – The End Of The End
Black Sabbath’s back catalogue is sorely lacking a truly brilliant live release, and as such, The End Of The End is likely to be remembered as their best.
