Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth: Album Review
Fen are back with their eighth album, Elemental (Part I: Mourning Earth), via Prophecy Productions.
Spectral Wound w/ Final Dose – Gorilla, Manchester: Live Review
Québécois black metal outfit Spectral Wound return to Manchester with Final Dose in support.
Last few tickets for Tynebound: News
New event from Reaper Agency UK, Tynebound, to take place in Newcastle in September, nearly reaches capacity.
Duir – Catarsi: Album Review
Italian black metal outfit, Duir, return with the powerful Catarsi.
Taake – En Skog av Nidstang: Album Review
After more than three decades, Taake still create music that is simultaneously powerful, undeniably evil and genuinely beautiful. En Skog av Nidstang, their ninth studio album, is no different.
Mork – Monolitt: Album Review
Monolitt is the eight album from Mork; another album of pure Norwegian darkness.
Fortress Festival 2027 – 10 Bands We Would Like To See: Opinion
A selection of At The Barrier writers that frequent Fortress Festival offer a pick or two as to who we would love to see on the bill at Fortress Festival 2027.
Fyrdsman – The Free Man: Album Review
Tim Shaw’s Fyrdsman project makes a long-awaited return. The Free Man is a work that examines post-1066 England.
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.
Dauþuz – Todeswerk: Uranium II: Album Review
Purveyors of the finest mining themed black metal, Dauþuz, return with their new album; Todeswerk: Uranium II.
Fortress Festival 2026 Day Two – Scarborough Spa: Live Review
Fortress Festival returns to Scarborough with another specially curated line-up representing the finest in extreme metal from across the globe.
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.
A Forest Of Stars – Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface: Album Review
A Forest Of Stars return with Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface; the grandiose sixth album from Yorkshire’s black metal eccentrics.
Black Sea of Trees – Cult of the Sun: Album Review
Progressive metal and Egyptology. Not perhaps the most obvious pairing, but one that Australian band Black Sea of Trees have dived head first into with their new, second, album Cult of the Sun, the follow up to 2023’s The Spiritual Beast.
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.