Idaho quartet Throes are not as bearded and as worn down by manual labour as you’d expect. Sure, a couple of them have a week’s worth of facial hair and…
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Switzerland is where metal became an intellectual art form thanks to Celtic Frost. Its modern purveyors are just as keen to use the medium as a platform for expression. Three…
Can the future of rock music belong to four men who look like the last picks in a school PE lesson? Whether it’s an image of their singer’s beer belly…
Former Celtic Frost members, Erol Uenala (guitar) and Franco Sesa (drums), will always be lauded for their role in the greatest comeback album in the history of metal (see 2006’s…
Irish sludge metal trio, Tooms, earned their stripes in precursor band, Gaia, which started in 2013 and then transitioned into their current incarnation in 2017. Cursed Monk Records issued their…
‘This band could be England’s answer to Swiss legends, Knut… Urzah are riff-hungry wolves in search of a drove of hares for supper,’ said Scream Blast Repeat of the group’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…
With a name like Armed for Apocalypse, you know this Californian quartet will be intense. Now on album number four, they signed with Church Road Records for their first LP…
How do you anchor heavy metal in an urban setting? It’s not easy when the origins of the genre are in escapism, fantasy, challenging the Christian establishment, and glorifying martial…