English industrial duo, Sunswarm, know their music can be dismissed as bedroom noodling or taken seriously as art that breaks rules and innovates. Much of modern industrial follows the former,…
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Make are a four-piece from North Carolina, who issued their debut LP as far back as 2011. They went quiet for a decade after 2016’s Pilgrimage of Loathing, but now…
Portland’s underground metal scene has some of the finest bands waiting for a TikTok viral moment. Not that they care about things like this. Can you imagine Eight Bells in…
‘No band thought it conceivable to write the metal version of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, but this Nova Scotia quartet are not just any band,’ said Scream Blast Repeat of the…
Jon Weisnewski started Nuclear Dudes as a bedroom project, and it might’ve stayed that way in the pre-streaming era. But everybody has access to a global market in today’s music…
Baelfyr hail from Peterborough and exhale many of its negative energies. It makes perfect sense for a band from this dismal city to seek refuge in the darkness of blackened…
Hertfordshire unit, Acts of Vengeance, released their first album in 2016, but phase two of their evolution started in 2023. As if doing the opposite to Sepultura, each new record…
Toranaga U.K. were once the stars of a free Metal Hammer CD. That was 1990, for a four-track EP alongside Slaughter, Trouble Tribe and Child’s Play. As one of the…
Taking the name from a Herman Hesse poem, Im Nebel started as the musical experiment of guitarist, Michael Lenz, in 2003. He expanded his vision into a full working band…