‘The standard of composition is high, like a band tied to a major label in the late 1990s with a brief to replicate the sales figures of Nine Inch Nails,’…
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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…
Federico and Nicolò Vese started work on the debut Asymmetric Universe album in 2023. Ten years of studying music composition preceded this project, and both are now accomplished musicians. Federico…
Rome quartet, SVNTH, started as a black metal band in 2006 under the name of Seventh Genocide but changed to their current moniker (pronounced “seventh”) in 2019. Their music has…
‘This is sophisticated metal music that draws its power from the art gallery and biblioteca as much as the furnaces and factories of Western Europe,’ said Scream Blast Repeat of…
Lacuna Coil are legends of Century Media Records. They formed their partnership in 1998 and now enter their twenty-seventh year together. In that time, they’ve had some astonishing successes, with…
Italian prog metal quartet, Bedsore, are one of the bands that slipped under the radar in 2020 when they released their debut album, Hypnagogic Hallucinations. Their outlandish prog rock stylings,…
Bologna quartet, Eye of the Golem, formed in 2019 and released their debut EP in 2021, but their brand of post-metal will always find its voice in a long-play format.…