James Kent is always recording music, yet this is his first album since 2016’s The Uncanny Valley. Two EPs and two volumes of remixes/b-sides kept the fans satiated during this…
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Australian metal experimentalists, Portal, are famous for their vertiginous sound and notorious for their anonymity. This band do nothing according to convention, but it was still a surprise to learn…
Mexican death metal grinders, Unidad Trauma, write conceptual music about the pernicious practises of occult medicine and the unethical thirst for knowledge that puts the patient second to the interests…
Eric Smith fronted the Virginia-based hardcore/screamo band, The Catalyst, but the chances are you’ve never heard of them if you’re a reader from outside the USA. They split in 2016,…
Ottawa blackened death metallers, Eclipser, received a positive response to their debut 2019 album, Pathos, even if the consensus agreed that their brand of atmospheric black metal was a little…
Svalbard frontwoman, Serena Cherry, had every right to curse the social and economic inertia of Covid-19. Her band received rave reviews for their 2020 album and had the momentum to…
London duo, Sectlinefor, take pride in antagonising a live audience of metalheads and pissing off metal purists. Their cartoonish appearance, miscegenated metallic dance music and camp disco callisthenics are as…
Wes Hauch could be the nearest thing today’s generation has to a Dimebag Darrell guitar hero. You’ll know his angular rhythms and shred patterns from his work in The Faceless…
‘They have the ideas, and the iconoclasm of a great artist, but the content needs refining,’ is what we said about An Autumn for Crippled Children’s (AAFCC) album from last…