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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Live Review: Zeal & Ardor
Genre-hopping metallers prove the exhilarating potential of their new material.
Review: Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
Manuel Gagneux displays his songwriting skill on stunning sophomore LP.
Review: Bridge Burner – Null Apostle
Experimentation and careful songwriting has lead to an impressive debut LP that answers to no one but itself.
Live Review: Grails, Bossk and Ilyas Ahmed
A night of reflective lows and uplifting highs awaited us at Grails’ Brighton headline show.
Reviews Round-up 003: Two Weeks’ Worth of Killer Music Compiled
From trippy sludge and avant-garde death metal to laid-back “flower doom”, it’s been a good two weeks of music.
Reviews Round-Up 002: Psychedelic Drone, Progressive Doom and Yet Another Surprise Release
A colossal round-up of the best forward-thinking, noisy music the industry has to offer.
Review: Abjection Ritual – Soul Of Ruin, Body Of Filth
Wretched and oozing in a pit of blackened tar, Abjection Ritual’s latest is the pinnacle of filthy extreme metal.
Retrospective: Nile – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Twenty years on, we revisit a ’90s death metal classic.
The Minimalist, Experimental Soundscapes of WuW
Parisian brothers WuW tell us more about their doomy brand of experimental music.
Review: Panopticon – The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (I & II)
A double album that’s half black metal, half folk, Panopticon’s latest may just be Austin Lunn’s most ambitious endeavour yet.
Review: Messa – Feast For Water
Occult doom and classy jazz collide on the latest LP from Italian quartet Messa.
Review: Primordial – Exile Amongst The Ruins
Primordial’s past efforts have put them above their contemporaries, but does their ninth LP continue the trend?
Review: WuW – Rien Ne Nous Sera Épargné
A musical voyage where minimalist doom, post-metal and space rock collide with the avant-garde.
Review: Ddent – Toro
The second album from Parisian duo Ddent proves even more expansive than their first.
Reviewing Corrupted’s Felecific Algorithm at Both RPMs
The latest LP from mysterious Japanese doom cult Corrupted was designed to be played at both standard vinyl speeds, we take a closer look at whether this ambitious aim pays off.
