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.
The Great Observer – Loss of Transcendence: Album Review
Italian act The Great Observer unleash a debut steeped in death metal’s darkest traditions and most volatile mutations.
Infected Dead – Invicta: Album Review
Channelling old school brutality with precision based technicality Infected Dead unleash a firestorm EP.
Godless – Adversus Parousia: Album Review
Chile’s long running blasphemers, Godless, shatter their nine year silence with a venomous earth shattering assault.
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.
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.
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.