Konvent – Firesky: Album Review
Danish quartet, Konvent, return with an assured confidence on their third full length, Firesky.
Pantheist – Uncanny Times: Album Review
Uncanny Times is the seventh album from funeral doom outfit, Pantheist.
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.
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight: Album Review
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats return. Nearly two decades on from the demo Kevin Starrs hammered together in a Cambridge garage, the tunes have never once dulled in menace.
Green Lung – Necropolitan: Album Review
Green Lung make their long awaited return and take us deep into the darkest depths of London with Necropolitan.
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.
Acid Bath w/ Green Lung & Conan – Manchester Academy: Live Review
Acid Bath finally arrive on English shores. 35 years after their inception, the trio warm up for their stadium shows with System Of A Down with a scorcher in Manchester.
Warning – Rituals Of Shame: Album Review
Warning release their new full length player, two decades after their massively influential Watching From A Distance. Is Rituals Of Shame worth the wait?
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.
Spirit Adrift – Infinite Illumination: Album Review
Good News: The Alchemical sonic melting pot, collectively known as Spirit Adrift, has released their new album! Bad News: Infinite Illumination will be their sixth and final album
Orange Goblin w/ Grand Magus & Urne – Manchester Academy 2: Live Review
Orange Goblin play their last show in Manchester – a celebratory night full of heavy metal emotion as the band sign off in style.
Damnation Festival 2025 – BEC Arena, Manchester: Live Review
We head back to BEC Arena for Damnation Festival 2025 featuring a slew of the best extreme metal acts around as the festival celebrates it’s 20th birthday.
Paradise Lost w/ Messa & High Parasite – New Century Hall, Manchester: Live Review
Paradise Lost open their latest tour in support of their latest long player, Ascension, with a date at Manchester’s fine New Century Hall.
Barbarian Hermit on The Prodigy: Why I Love
We welcome Adam Robertshaw from Barbarian Hermit to discuss how they influenced him and his art.
Arð – Untouched By Fire: Album Review
Arð make their return with the follow up to 2022’s Take Up My Bones. Untouched By Fire is another epic collection of monastic doom hymns.