Chelsea Wolfe – The Dark: Album Review
Heavy music’s patron saint of the beautifully bleak, Chelsea Wolfe, releases The Dark.
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John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Cathedral: Album Review
Horror maestro John Carpenter, son Cody, and godson Daniel Davies return with Cathedral – fourteen tracks that score a nightmare of Carpenter’s own making
Black Spikes – Ydos: Album Review
Black Spikes, the Lithuanian genre shifting modern progressive metallers, return with Ydos. A concept album that demands full and undivided attention.
Hulder – Verbolgen: Album Review
Pacific Northwest black metal outfit Hulder returns with Verbolgen, a third full-length that trades solitary vision for shared command – nine tracks of frostbitten, folk-threaded black metal that rages, mourns and marches in equal measure.
Moonspell – Far From God: Album Review
Portugal’s gothic metal standard-bearers Moonspell return with Far From God, their thirteenth studio album, which doesn’t so much chase the past as drag it kicking and screaming into the present.
Mortiis – Ghosts Of Europa: Album Review
Ghosts Of Europa is latest addition to the ever prolific and interesting, Mortiis. The album is released via Prophecy Productions.
Khemmis – Khemmis: Album Review
Khemmis, the Denver-founded doom metal quartet, have spent over a decade constructing one of the most coherent and distinctive bodies of work in contemporary heavy music.
Stormkeep – The Nocturnes Of Iswylm: Album Review
Stormkeep has spent the better part of a decade building a world entirely their own, and with The Nocturnes Of Iswylm, their second full-length, they have not simply returned to that world — they have reshaped it, deepened it, and made it considerably more dangerous to inhabit.
Blood Incantation – All Gates Open (OST): Album Review
All Gates Open is the accompanying soundtrack to Blood Incantation’s forthcoming documentary charting the genesis of their massive 2024 album, Absolute Elesewhere.
Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising: Album Review
Grand Serpent Rising ends an eight year absence for Dimmu Borgir, who return in scintillating form with one of their best LPs to date.
Tyrannus – Mournhold: Album Review
The UK extreme metal underground has been producing some genuinely exceptional work in recent years, and Tyrannus are very much part of that conversation.
Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin: Album Review
Swedish gothic doom entity Draconian are back after 6 years with a new release and a very big return for In Somnolent Ruin.
Frozen Soul – No Place of Warmth: Album Review
Arriving like an Arctic blast in the dead of summer, Frozen Soul returns with bone-chilling HM-2 buzzsaw tones wrapped in permafrost on their latest release, No Place of Warmth.
Desperate Journalist w/ Alphabet & Project Overload – The Big Difference, Leicester: Live Review
All Sparks Disco host an absolute fireball of an event with a trio of bands that collectively gave the audience an unforgettable (and very, very warm) evening of fantastic music.
Archiac Oath – Determined to Death and Beyond: Album Review
Determined to Death and Beyond is the debut album that doesn’t just announce Archaic Oath, but screams it from the mountain peaks with a ferocity that puts bands twice their size to shame.