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.
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.
Yoth Iria – Gone With The Devil: Album Review
Yoth Iria release their third album, Gone With The Devil, via Metal Blade Records.
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.
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.
Dragged Into Sunlight w/ Vacuous & Plague Pit – Club Academy, Manchester: Live Review
Dragged Into Sunlight start a short run of shows in Manchester before hitting Incineration Festival. Vacuous and Plague Pit are in support.
Hrob – Brána chladu: Album Review
A harrowing descent into some of the most grotesque and atmospheric death metal ever crafted as Hrob unleash their debut album.
Fleshcrave – Godhand: Album Review
India’s Fleshcrave crash on the death metal radar with a debut EP steeped in unvarnished death metal ferocity.
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.
Wrang – Verwording: Album Review
Wrang have spent over a decade developing their sound within the Netherlands’ increasingly vibrant black metal scene, and with Verwording, their third full-length, they’ve crafted their most cohesive work to date.
At The Gates – The Ghost Of A Future Dead: Album Review
Some farewells are written in fire, others in blood, but this one from At The Gates…this one is carved into the very fabric of melodic death metal itself.
Sicarius – Nex: Album Review
Sicarius mark the return of founding member Argyris with third album, Nex.
Blackbraid w/ Winterfylleth & Noctem – Rebellion, Manchester: Live Review
American black metal outfit Blackbraid arrive in Manchester with hometown heroes, Winterfylleth. It’s sold out, it’s Friday night…the perfect melting pot.