Movies about video games have nearly all been terrible. Thank goodness, then, for music. Plenty of metal bands have written songs and albums about video games...
Having made serious waves as vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist of hardcore punk outfit Svalbard, Serena Cherry is returning to her roots with a solo black metal...
Next year marks the 20th anniversary of Ireland’s premier post-rock outfit God Is An Astronaut. In anticipation of that splendid occasion, they have released what is...
2020 is crawling mercifully towards its end. It’s been one hell of a year. Normally, this is where I’d say metalheads might be able to take...
Music is the most immediately emotive form of art. Listeners can hear a single note of a favourite song and burst into tears, feel chills, or...
As the saying goes, if you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there. Not a single member of my generation is going to forget the year...
If you look up the word ‘sublime’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of Ella Fitzgerald singing. Or at least, there absolutely should be. Her singing...
Instrumental prog might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the name Asian Death Crustacean, but that’s exactly what their debut...
Contrary to its famed origins as a secretive, exclusive club only for the trvly kvlt, black metal has grown to become one of the most versatile...
You know the feeling you get when you listen to something great for the first time? It’s a little tingle of excitement, that voice in your...
Cathartic and beautifully pastoral, Bloem—set for release via Eisenwald—is the excellent third album from Dutch black metal group Fluisteraars.
Birds of Prey (Warner Bros. Pictures) is an absolute riot of a film, presenting an adrenaline-packed antidote to the setting superhero fatigue.
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (Lionsgate) is witty, sharp, and with more laugh-out-loud moments than you would otherwise expect from a whodunnit. It is also a not-remotely-subtle...
Composed of former members of Paradise Lost and Vallenfyre, Strigoi is flying high off the release of their debut Abandon All Faith via Nuclear Blast. We...
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Strigoi has arrived to unleash Hell with their debut album Abandon All Faith (Nuclear Blast Records). It’s filthy and...
As the world grows darker and winter draws in, warm yourself by the light of Obsequiae’s fire. Their latest album, The Palms of Sorrowed Kings (20...
The beautiful symphonic jazz of Maria Mendes is gracing the airwaves once again thanks to her new album Close to Me (Justin Time Records). Featuring the...
Anti-fascist black metal is a growing genre, and Liverpool’s Dawn Ray’d are leading the charge. Their second album, Behold Sedition Plainsong (Prosthetic Records), is a fearsome...
This month’s 190 Proof artist, aswekeepsearching, help place India squarely on the post-rock map; Their third album, Rooh, is absolutely stunning!
On their beautiful third album Rooh, aswekeepsearching help define India as a prime new arena for post-rock.
In more ways than one, Charlie Cawood’s second solo album, Blurring into Motion (Bad Elephant Music), is a charming and engaging trip through contemporary folk and...
Power metal is often derided in the world of metal, but that doesn’t stop it being a whole lot of fun. Twilight Force demonstrate exactly how...
Conjuring a strong sense of place with beautiful melodies and ferocious riffs, Falls of Rauros have delivered an excellent new album in the shape of Patterns...
Drone is a genre that requires patience, so set yourself down on the porch, get the speakers going, and let the sunset wash over you with...
There’s never been a better time to be a punk. Bad Religion return with their seventeenth studio album, Age of Unreason, a short, sharp shock of...
Amon Amarth have released their much-anticipated eleventh album, Berserker, via Metal Blade and, while at the core it’s the same lovable Viking-themed metal, the production is...
