2020 is crawling mercifully towards its end. It’s been one hell of a year. Normally, this is where I’d…
Music is the most immediately emotive form of art. Listeners can hear a single note of a favourite song…
If you look up the word ‘sublime’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of Ella Fitzgerald singing. Or at…
Instrumental prog might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the name Asian Death…
Contrary to its famed origins as a secretive, exclusive club only for the trvly kvlt, black metal has grown…
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 skewering of the US’ current attitude to immigration.
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 spoke with Greg Mackintosh and Chris Casket about the album, politics, religion and family.
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 dark in both sound and aesthetic: a death metal album that honestly reflects the world in which we today live.
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 Buck Spin), is just the thing for a cold winter night, as 2019 gives way to a new decade…