Retrospective: Neurosis & Jarboe – Neurosis & Jarboe
A re-examination of one of the post metallers more fertile and experimental collaborations.
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Sleeve Notes 004: Hominid Sounds
A deeper dive into one of the people behind London collective Hominid Sounds
Premiere: Agvirre – Muzzle & Mask
We’re thrilled to bring you an exclusive premiere from brand new Manchester collective Agvirre.
Review: Fox Millions Duo – Biting Through
A genuinely off-centre, engagingly indulgent experience.
Review: Full Of Hell – Weeping Choir
Virulent and corrosive concoctions from the modern kings of extremity.
Review: Kurokuma – Sheffield’s Best Metal Bands, Vol. 1
Sludge, tribalism, psychedelia, electronic music and Jamiroquai covers from Sheffield’s self-appointed scene leaders.
Review: Tim Hecker – Anoyo
Tim Hecker will need no introduction. His music is constantly at the forefront of the genre, using electronic production and meticulous editing to shift, warp, pitch-bend and glitch his drawn […]
Live Gallery: Author & Punisher, Lingua Ignota and Riotmiloo
Images from a cold night of industrialised insanity.
Sheffield’s Best Metal Band? In Conversation with Psych-Sludgers Kurokuma
We talk to the curators of Sheffield’s Best Metal Bands (spoiler: it’s just them).
Review: Ionna Gika – Thalassa
Ionna Gika’s debut solo album impresses with mournful musings on familial grief and romantic dissolution.
Reviews Round-Up 023: Dissonant Sludge, Transcendent Post-Metal and Poignant Death-Gospel
Mono – Nowhere Now Here The term ‘post-metal’ was once synonymous with the term ‘experimental metal’, but in the few decades since its inception it has become evermore like a […]
Mental Health, Hip-Hop and Genre Convergence: Growing up in New York with Purple Tape Pedigree’s Geng
An in-depth and personal chat with NYC’s genre-defying maestro Geng, about everything from Burzum to UK club music.
The Astral Noize Albums of the Year 2018: 100-75
Our four-part Album Of The Year list kicks off with picks 75 through 100.
Ecological Upheaval and Political Peril: The Psychedelic Death Piano of Wilderness Hymnal
Wilderness Hymnal’s Javier Wallis talks Final Fantasy, psychedelic heavy piano music and queer identity in metal.
Reviews Round-Up 009: A Smorgasbord of Forward-Thinking Extreme Music
Yet more proof that no one way of utilising a kick-ass riff is superior.
Premiere: Kosmogyr – Iridescent (Swimful Remix)
Check out a brand new track from Kosmogyr’s ambitious new remix album, alongside an in-depth interview with the duo.
