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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Svalbard: Smashing the Patriarchy
Svalbard’s Serena Cherry talks revenge porn, feminism, class struggles, animal welfare and parasites.
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.
The Astral Noize 4/20 Roundup
On 4/20, doom dominates our first reviews roundup, which includes some surprise releases from familiar faces.
Review: Agrimonia – Awaken
Agrimonia flaunt their stellar song-crafting ability and inherent progressive capabilities on latest LP Awaken.
Noisepicker: Blues, But Gnarlier
After honing his riff-crafting talents in Lord Of Putrefaction, Decomposed, Hangnail, Firebird and The Earls Of Mars, Harry Armstrong’s latest project takes a step towards metal’s origins in blues.
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.
They’re Already Inside Your Mind: Lacertilia
We chat to psychedelic stoner rockers Lacertilia about the band’s influences and the intriguing concept behind their latest LP.
Review: Sect – No Cure for Death
If Sect’s first album was a group of seasoned prize fights shaking off ring-rustiness, No Cure For Death is a gang of hardcore punk veterans, fighting fit and ready to take brass knuckles to the resurgent evils of the post-Trumpian world.
Review: Godflesh – Post Self
It’s almost unheard of for a band to release a masterpiece so late into their career but somehow Godflesh have achieved just that.
Diploid: Where Powerviolence Meets Sludge
Infatuated with the Diploid’s devastating raucous, and driven by a wish to discover more about the album’s themes, we spoke to two-thirds of the band.
