Shores Of Null – Homesick: Album Review
Some places only ache once you have left them, and others you leave because they ache. Shores of Null have built an entire record in the space between the two.
Insomnium – Netherworlds: Album Review
Thirty years is a long time to stay sad, but few bands have turned sorrow into a career quite as gracefully as Insomnium.
Mother Of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us: Album Review
Carved from grief and crowned with melody, The Light That Keeps Us lingers long after its final note has faded.
Profanation – Ultra-Noise Warfare: Album Review
Violent, unpredictable and utterly corrosive, Profanation weaponise grindcore’s past, dragging it into darker territory and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
Amon Amarth w/ Orbit Culture & Soilwork – O2 Apollo, Manchester: Live Review
Amon Amarth kick off their UK/EU jaunt in support of their latest album, The Allfather Awakens. Support comes from Orbit Culture and Soilwork.
Fog Wall – Gloomweaver: Album Review
A dread laden fusion of Tolkien terror and FromSoftware horror, Fog Wall carve out a cavernous new realm of death metal.
Crown Magnetar – The Hollowing Of Godflesh: Album Review
Crown Magnetar return with an immense display of technical brutality, pushing deathcore’s extremity to a new apex of precision and savagery.
Xenith – To No Avail: Album Review
For a band this new, the sheer compositional confidence borders the outrageous on this thoroughly absorbing debut album from Xenith.
Zvindiyar – Six Rites: Album Review
The debut album from Zvindiyar is a clear progressive death metal balancing punishing riff architecture with ritual precision by multi-instrumentalist Mohammed AlMeshkhas.
Static Abyss – The Dying Hunt: Album Review
Death metal royalty converges into a collection of twisting and rancid doom-soaked carnage in the form of Static Abyss.
Opeth w/ Paradise Lost, Katatonia – Piece Hall, Halifax: Live Review
Opeth play their only UK show in Halifax at The Piece Hall, on Yorkshire Day. Local lads Paradise Lost join the bill, as well as Swedish gloomsters, Katatonia.
My Own Will – Misery: EP Review
My Own Will’s new EP is a concentrated blast of modern deathcore brutality, each track striking with precision, weight, and zero mercy.
Psycroptic – The Pulse Of Annihilation: Album Review
Two decades in, Psycroptic channel their legacy into a refreshed, groove‑forward assault without sacrificing an ounce of their surgical intensity.
Horrifier – Revelations Of Gore: Album Review
Horrifier haul Norway’s forgotten death‑metal corpse into a sludge‑soaked blast furnace, resurrecting its roots with their second full length.
Death To All w/ Cryptic Shift – Islington Academy: Live Review
Death To All rolled into London’s O2 Academy Islington for a sweaty sold-out gig and delivered exactly what fans were hoping for.