Idaho quartet Throes are not as bearded and as worn down by manual labour as you’d expect. Sure, a couple of them have a week’s worth of facial hair and…
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We enjoyed the 2023 debut album from Temic. “Virtuoso musicianship is important to Temic, but they never let it get in the way of their songs,” was one of our…
Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto (aka Ted Skjellum) is the quiet one in the band. Fenriz does all the press (with great reluctance) and often delivers his verdict on true and false…
We decided to let Megadeth’s final album mature rather than appraise it in January. Ten months later, it’s hard to divorce the cultural significance of this record from an honest…
The art school discovered doom metal decades ago. Soundgarden started it in the late 1980s, and Neurosis invented a genre out of it. Today, Italian quartet Messa are its modern…
Reviewing a legendary artist is a pleasure for a music reviewer. An assignment to cover one of the Big Four is less daunting these days because the output is infrequent…
Switzerland is where metal became an intellectual art form thanks to Celtic Frost. Its modern purveyors are just as keen to use the medium as a platform for expression. Three…
The Ocean explored a longform electronica agenda on their last outing and neglected their progressive post-metal heritage. 2023’s Holocene started as ideas created by the group’s synthesiser guru Peter Voigtmann.…
Godflesh is on a life support machine, and it will be turned off soon. Justin Broadrick announced the immediate retirement of the band in March this year. Shouting into the…