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.
Album Premiere: DÖ – Astral Death Cult
Finnish dööm unit DÖ are streaming their new album Astral Death Cult today on Astral Noize, ahead of its release on Friday.
Review: Wallowing – Planet Loss
Swirling with rage, suffocating density and cacophonous vitality, this is an album that demands to be heard. And it ain’t taking no for an answer.
Lure of the Abyss: A Track-By-Track Dive into the Nihilism of Necronautical’s Apotheosis
We delve deep into the dark but ambitious concepts of the latest Necronautical album.
Cultural Isolation Pt. 2: The Industry Speaks
Following on from our piece on Brexit and how it could affect UK metal, we spoke to a handful of people from the scene to find out their thoughts and how leaving the EU could affect them going forward.
Cultural Isolation Pt. 1: What Brexit Could Mean for the UK Metal Scene
A detailed look at how Brexit could impact the UK metal scene.
