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even in a scene as boundary-pushing as black metal, Witch Club Satan are radical. While their sound is rooted in raw chaos, it's fuelled by a unique and powerful perspective: [...]

50 BLOOD CEREMONY The Old Ways Remain RISE ABOVE Blood Ceremony had always been a unique presence in the already niche doom-adjacent occult rock sphere. On their fifth album, the [...]

In late 2022, Maggot Heart singer/guitarist Linnea Olsson underwent emergency surgery on her neck to decompress a nerve, a few weeks before the band were due to record their third [...]

The dark side of America's Deep South has long been a source of inspiration for storytellers, from writers such as Flannery O'Connor to TV shows like True Detective. Exploring race, [...]

During the first World War, the Belgian city of Diksmuide in West Flanders was reduced to ruins after a series of attacks and bombings. Many people there had already lost [...]

According to Romanian mythology, the Varcolac is a wolf demon said to have emerged from the souls of unbaptised children. A grisly beast rooted in Catholic complexities - the perfect [...]

TWO YEARS INTO the pandemic and we've seen all manner of livestreams, from fuzzy footage shot in basements to over-the-top performances that erupt with fire and theatrics. If you're familiar [...]

'I'M VERY INTERESTED in liminal states of being,' says The Otolith's lead vocalist and violinist, Sarah Pendleton, as she discusses the inspiration behind the title of the band's debut album, [...]

KATATONIA SOLSTAFIR / SOM FORUM, LONDON Sweden's masters of melancholy cast a spell over Kentish Town HEAVY AS IT may be, SOM's expansive blend of shoegaze and post-rock is also [...]

ROADBURN 2022 VARIOUS VENUES, TILBURG Ulver, Emma Ruth Rundle and Lingua Ignota bring the rapture back to the lowlands IF YOU'VE FOUND yourself dreaming of other, better worlds over the [...]

LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION, LEEDS Carcass, Paradise Lost and Svalbard bring extremity back to the Midlands AFTER THE DISORIENTATION of the past two years, Damnation is both saviour and intensification, the [...]

LINGUA EGNOTA Sinner Get Ready SARGENT HOUSE The underground's most electrifying artist unleashes a folk horror masterwork LINGUA IGNOTA, AKA Kristin Hayter, is one of the most unique voices in [...]

BACK IN MAY, things were looking bleak for festival season. It felt as though with every week that passed, yet another music festival was being cancelled or postponed. And then [...]

E-L-R Vexier PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS Intoxicating doomscapes from the Swiss peaks THE SUMPTUOUS ALBUM artwork for Vexier, the second album from Swiss trio E-L-R, shows a pair of feet stepping through [...]

THE FIRST SONG that comes to mind is Moonchild by IRON MAIDEN. It's not the song so much as the role it played. The reason it has a big meaning [...]

CHOVU'S BAND NAME is derived from ancient Swahili, meaning 'something bad or evil'. Through their captivating sounds that veer from sweeping melody to searing black and doom metal, they delve [...]

'THE BAND THAT became a part of my DNA, not necessarily stylistically, but part of how I identify as a rock fan, is MOTORHEAD. I was raised in a musical [...]

WE DON'T THROW the word 'masterpiece' around lightly, but Kristin Hayter aka Lingua Ignota's 2019 debut, Caligula, is certainly worthy of that accolade--a bewilderingly inventive work of stately beauty and [...]

'I WANTED TO make an album that you could drink and dance to, but if you start to dig, you'll find a darker side.' Featuring a diverse line-up of musicians [...]