Visceral, haunting, yet staggeringly beautiful in places, GAEREA's ‘Mirage’ (Season of Mist) is a cathartic contender for the underground black metal record of this year.
With their 12th studio album, ‘Opvs Contra Natvram,’ Poland’s extreme metal titans Behemoth have compiled a mostly captivating record with a ton of potential for future...
Warm and inviting in some parts, equally cold and crushing in others, 'Celestial Blues' is a journey of poetic and grandiose proportions you do not want...
The Funeral Orchestra formed 18 years ago, but you wouldn’t think it by looking at their discography. The funeral doom outfit possesses a small handful of...
Formed in 2000, the Californian extreme industrial outfit Dawn of Ashes – a metaphor for the ‘beginning of an end’ – rose to popularity with their...
In the ‘90s, metal was at a crossroads. It had spread its branches from the thrash, black, doom, and death pantheon which had propelled it to...
The Northern Indiana depressive black metal outfit, Nodus Tollens released its debut full-length record on July 7th via Trepanation Recordings. The one-man project, fronted by Cicatrix,...
Floor Jansen is one of the most prominent and successful names in contemporary metal. In 1997, at the age of 16, she established herself in the...
In one of the first of its kind since the COVID-19 quarantine processes began, Katatonia held a livestream concert from Studio Gröndahl on Saturday, May 9th...
Forgotten Tomb is on the cusp of releasing their tenth studio album, Nihilistic Estrangement, on May 8th via Agonia Records. The band is known for helping...
When it comes to elusiveness, few are more so than An Autumn for Crippled Children. The pseudonym-comprising outfit started circulating around the underground scene in 2011...
The electronic world is ever-expanding and diving head-first into experimental new territories on a near-daily basis thanks in large to the incredible technological developments we’ve experienced...
During these uncertain times, some things we can all do with is more creativity and positivity. As the COVID-19 pandemic causes worldwide disruption and stress on...
With a passion for tradition and history, Graham Brooks started Barishi (previously known as the instrumental act Atlatl) in 2012. With Sascha Simms on vocals, they...
Every now and then, a record comes along which surprises, stops you in your tracks, and transports you elsewhere. This is one of those albums. Marrowfields...
Matron Thorn is certainly one busy individual. The creator of Benighted in Sodom – a depressive black metal project – and more has begun a new...
Perchta – their name influenced by a pagan goddess revered in the Austrian Alps – began their journey in 2017. With a heavy understanding and appreciation...
Elliot from Canadian technical death metal band Beneath The Massacre talks about their new album, 'Fearmonger' and their return from an eight year break.
The frosty world of black metal has evolved a fair bit over the years. From its primordial roots of icy blast beats and tremolo riffs a...
In these quarantined, crazy crisis times, one thing we could all do with is crushing new music to wrap over our ears until we can once...
Numbers are important. We see them in binary – the concrete which cements the efficiency of code, computers and computations – and we see it in...
This century has witnessed an explosion of musical variety and diversity like none other, especially in the world of metal. We’ve shifted from the classic metal...
When it comes to emotional viscera in metal, few genres manage to encapsulate feelings of hopelessness, rage, and self-discovery like doom/sludge. Their dragging, monolithic riffs and...
Their first new music in six years, VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC, one of the hushed and praised names of slam, have released their new EP Austrian Dukes of Derangement...
We sat down with the #dungeonsynth master, Håvard Ellefsen, also known as Mortiis, about all things Mortiis, including the new Omniprescence Productions/Dead Seed Productions album Spirit...
In preparation for the release of their ninth studio album, Cell-0, we spoke with Apocalyptica member Paavo Lötjönen about the new record and Apocalyptica’s rise to...
