Arun Natarajan is the head of Subcontinental Records and a disciple of progressive death metal. As a veteran musician of the Karnataka metal scene in India, he came up with…
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Switzerland played a pivotal role in the evolution of extreme metal thanks to the ugly proto-black/death metal of Hellhammer and the band’s subsequent transition into Celtic Frost in 1984. So,…
The one-year anniversary of Pestifer’s Expanding oblivion is a good excuse to review an album released before the formation of Scream Blast Repeat in April 2020. It also helps that…
London experimentalists, Five the Hierophant, write the kind of doom jazz that should be impossible to create. Of course, you’re right to ask if there could be two more contrasting…
French metal eccentrics, Psykup, are the European equivalent of Mr Bungle and draw most of their inspiration from Mike Patton in terms of style and sinister humour. Formed in 1995,…