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...
