Ottawa blackened death metallers, Eclipser, received a positive response to their debut 2019 album, Pathos, even if the consensus agreed that their brand of atmospheric black metal was a little…
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Anonymous UK collective, Epiphanic Truth, are proof once more that progressive metal is a genre of poets and philosophers, just like pre-unification Germany in the eighteenth century. But the musicians…
Swedish duo, Åskog, grabbed our attention last year with their excellent Varg demo just before they secured a deal with Grind to Death Records and Corrupted Flesh Records to issue…
There seem to be more bedroom experiments in black metal than in amateur pornography. What is it about this outsider genre that attracts acolytes from all over the world? Basic…
The resurgent blackened thrash taking hold in the underground looks to the pre-thrash attitude and transgression of Venom for inspiration. Artists like Bewitcher, Hellripper and Stälker adopt the satanic imagery,…
French blasphemers, Seth, take their name from the third son of Adam and Eve. The cover art for their latest album shows a smouldering Notre-Dame engulfed in flames and has…
Maryland black metal quartet, Nixil, aim to write the music that will chronicle the irreversible moment when western civilisation begins to die. We live in an age of science, rationality…
Manchester metal fiends, Wode, might be the most anticipated outfit of 2021. Now signed to 20 Buck Spin and on their third album, the levels of expectation are as deafening…
You’d be forgiven for thinking this is an album from Norway in 1996, but the one-man creator behind the music of Sinira hails from sunny Texas. Going by the name…