French black metal has an array of talent across the spectrum from the perfidious (Deathspell Omega) to the atmospheric (Blut Aus Nord) to the brutal (Otargis), yet it also boasts…
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The client rosters for the biggest metal labels are full of deathcore bands they snapped up during the genre’s fluorescence in 2009-10. Some of them are clear deadwood artists with…
Australian death metal worshippers, Nocturnal Graves, play extreme metal as envisaged by their forefathers in the late 1980s – fast, raw, and blood-thirsty. Now on their fourth album, the quartet…
Hertfordshire duo, Dreadbeggar, finally release their debut EP after sitting on it for four years, and it’s full of nasty riff-fuelled guitars. This is sludge metal the old school way…
Boston metallic hardcore bruisers, Great American Ghost, left their imprint on 2020 with one of the heaviest albums of recent years. Power Through Terror left many jaws dislocated and pushed…
OAR started life as a lo-fi blackgaze quartet with 2017’s Sect Burner EP but have now seen the error of their ways and evolved into a heavier and nastier post-metal…
Swedish-Icelandic collective, Under the Church, are on a mission to keep the flag of old school death metal flying high. As custodians of the classic HM-2 Swedish death metal pioneered…
Those of you watching the rise of Infected Rain over the last decade will know that the Moldovan quintet sharpen their song writing skills and expand their ambition with each…
Australian tech death quintet, Hadal Maw, established a foothold in the international touring circuit pre-Covid by supporting the likes of Aversions Crown, Within Destruction and Psycroptic. Three albums into their…