Mayhem have a strong consensus for the best black metal album of all time. Everybody should know 1994’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, but everybody should be willing to look beyond…
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Italian metal trio, Borrower, produced their first demo in 1993, split up, and then reformed three times before deciding in 2014 to work towards an album. A 2018 EP was…
Italian prog doom quartet, Novembre, have a special agreement with Peaceville Records: no matter how many years away from the scene, you’ll always have a contract with us. People assumed…
1987 gave birth to death metal (Scream Bloody Gore by Death), black metal (Deathcrush by Mayhem), grindcore (Scum by Napalm Death), and avant-garde metal (Into the Pandemonium by Celtic Frost).…
‘Chugging on the power chords… is symptomatic of the problems with this LP. You know they want every chorus to be a triumph over adversity, which tells you everything about…
Death metal musicians approaching their genre like jazz musicians is like shoegaze-inspired bands trying to incorporate atmospheric black metal into their textures. It should work, but it seldom does. Maybe…
Neil Erskine (Chairmaker) is angry about the state of modern western society. Most countries in Europe are drifting to the populist right. Political dialogue is non-existent and toxic when it…
Iranian multi-instrumentalist, Mohammad Maki, celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Shivered, and he’s ready to go again. Album number three comes within twelve months of 2024’s Existential Mourning. So, what’s his…
French trio, Aephanemer, are a group with a lot of promise and a lot of good will from those cheering them on from the sides. ‘The orchestral dramatics take centre…