Sigh remain one of heavy music’s most reliable disruptors. As Japan’s most influential group with origins in the black metal scene of the early 1990s, their credentials are impeccable. ‘Doom…
Tag: avant garde metal
In the latest part of this longform documentary, we analyse the second era of avant-garde metal and uncover the artists that embraced experimentation in the period, 1993-1999. We’ve split Part…
Hungarian metal genius, Tamás Kátai, is a national treasure in his homeland. You only need to watch the reaction to Thy Catafalque’s performance in 2021 at the Fekete Zaj festival.…
London-based avant-garde metal duo, The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS), produced one of the most surprising albums of 2022. ‘You’ll reach the end of the listening experience with the…
Swiss quintet, Schammasch, dazzled the metal world with 2019’s Hearts of No Light. Voted the album of the year by the readership of Zero Tolerance magazine and praised in every…
Dødheimsgard (DHD) visionary, Vicotnik, is the only founder member left in the Norwegian avant-garde black metal group that once boasted Fenriz (Darkthrone) and Alver (Emperor) in its ranks. He remembers…
Everybody wants to hear a death metal/free jazz duo from France, right? Matthieu Metzger (Klone) had the idea after he met Grégoire Galichet (Deathcode Society) when both musicians crossed paths…
Zeit der Dunkelheit is the project of a London-based Greek musician who writes German-language black metal. The man behind the art is multi-instrumentalist, Jim Kakes, who issued his first EP…
Who remembers the praise Negură Bunget received for their 2006 Om album? Terrorizer magazine listed it as one of the essential records of the decade, and many black metal fans…