The unlikely event of a metal band appearing on the front cover of a daily newspaper for reasons other than church-burning, eating bats or satanism is something Swedish sludge metal…
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Death released their seminal Human album on 22 October 1991, but Chuck Schuldiner and Sean Reinert are no longer with us to see its continued influence on metal. In honour…
‘Northern powerhouse’ is a term that invites cynicism in modern politics after eleven years of a Conservative government with little to show for its efforts to rebalance the economic growth…
The question of the heaviest album of 2021 is already a settled one. The answer is Mastiff’s Leave Me the Ashes of the Earth that came out in September. If…
They released one of the most anticipated records of 2021 when they gave us the long-awaited sequel to their acclaimed Colors album from 2007. Only Between the Buried and Me…
Finnish death-doom gods, Hooded Menace, released their sixth album last month and show no signs of slipping into a comfortable existence. The music on The Tritonus Bell is slimy, sinister,…