Chicago quintet, Warforged, are one of many risk-takers in the metal underground. That’s because they believe art should evolve and are always looking for new innovations. It took them seven…
Tag: experimental metal
Electronic mathcore pioneers, Genghis Tron, achieved their place in history with 2008’s Board Up the House. The post-hardcore, extreme metal, and experimental underground scenes all agreed on one thing: it’s…
Dutch experimenters, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, feel the calling of improvised post-metal as their artistic mission. Aaron Turner (ex-Isis/current member of Neurosis) is the most famous person committed to…
Lisbon quartet, Thrownness, don’t do albums, but their second release is long enough to qualify as an LP. Following up on 2024’s Marrow EP, their latest effort comes in at…
In this longform documentary, we document the second era of avant-garde metal and look at the artists that brought unorthodoxy and experimentation into the genre. But what do we mean…
New Hampshire trio, Agenbite Misery, compose experimental metal using themes from James Joyce’s Ulysses. As the most impenetrable novel ever written in the English language, it makes you wonder if…
Dawnwalker are proof that the English metal scene has its innovators as well as followers. They don’t receive coverage in Metal Hammer, Revolver or Kerrang!, nor do they get offers…
Today is the Day are as important as Neurosis in the development of avant-garde metal in the 1990s. After all, “noise metal” is a term we created to describe their…
Gautier Serre celebrates the twentieth year of his Igorrr project with album number five, and he’s come a long way in that time. Would he have foreseen a future as…