Video Premiere: TRAPS – Cyborg
You’ve got to respect a band with such a flagrant disrespect for genre tropes…
Green Lung on Reissues, Fascist Occultists and the Anarchic Spirit of the Old Religion
“We love bands like Witchfinder General, but we’d rather be on the side of the witches.”
The Top 20 Astral Noize Albums of the Year 2019
Find out who takes the top spot this year.
Albums of the Decade: An Inside Look at Bismuth’s The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef
We spoke to one half of Bismuth for this inside look at their 2018 landmark.
Albums of the Decade: Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
An utterly unmissable amalgamation of enchanting post-rock beauty and hardcore ruthlessness.
Albums of the Decade: Conjurer – Mire
Doing away with genre limitations on Mire, Conjurer smash together hardcore, doom, death, sludge, prog, black and post-metal in a way that is vicious, natural-sounding and free-flowing.
Premiere: Mairu – Wild Darkened Eyes
Celebrate Mairu’s signing to Trepanation Recordings with an exclusive stream of their new single.
Albums of the Decade: While She Sleeps – This Is The Six
A gateway album we needed in a decade sorely lacking in them.
Albums of the Decade: Arcane Roots – Blood & Chemistry
Arcane Roots’ debut displayed the kind of defiant innovation that many can only dream of.
Albums of the Decade: Fen – Winter
If the world is just, Fen’s Winter will one day be spoken of with reverence.
Beyond The Past: Decoding the Mystery of Music with Mono, Boris and Envy
In conversation with three of Japan’s finest purveyors of innovative heavy music.
Experimentation, Politics and Björk: An In-Depth Interview with Cloud Rat
Cloud Rat have perfected the art of weaponising chaos.
Premiere: Tommy Concrete – Internalised Ableism
Tommy Concrete tackles internalised ableism on a brand new single.
Benign Circle: The Introspective, Existential and Political Storytelling of Torpor
A chat with one of the UK sludge scene’s finest exports.
Flayed Gods, Strangled Suns and Rotting Minds: Talking Loss, Hatred and Horror with Pist
A breakdown of the upcoming LP from Bury quartet Pist.
The Dystopia Will be Caffeinated: The Industrialised Clamour of Petbrick
Inside the new psych-noise-punk onslaught of Petbrick, featuring Wayne Adams and Iggor Cavalera.
