Latest articles by Alex Deller
A beginner’s guide to Dischord Records in five essential albums
The story of Dischord, home of harDCore, and the most ethical institution in the music industry, told via five essential records
Nina Simone, Bob Marley and powerviolence: why Zulu are the most vital hardcore band of 2023
Code Orange and Turnstile might have put hardcore back on mainstream radars, but LA's Zulu are paving the genre's future
4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
From masked nu metal revivialists Blackgold to 'cyber-grind' pioneers Thotcrime, you need to check out these brilliant new metal bands
7 brilliant metal albums you might have missed last month
Grave Pleasures, As Everything Unfolds and Dodheimsgard are among the albums that might have flown under the radar in April
A beginner's guide to noise rock in five essential albums
It's ugly, it's uncompromising and it's totally mind-blowing: your guide to noise rock in five albums that (almost) define the genre
7 killer metal albums you might have missed this month
From Kruelty and Demonstealer to Ad Infinitum, nothing,nowhere. and Lana Del Rabies, don't sleep on these brilliant new metal albums
5 brilliant up-and-coming bands you need to check out this month
From Californian hardcore heroes Scowl to Icelandic post-punks Kaelan Mikla and Brazilian black metal brutes Vauruva, these are the 5 new bands you need to check out this month
The 50 best metal albums of 2022
From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From Gojira-style Swiss prog metal to anti-war Ukrainian death metal, these are 5 new bands you need to hear right now
The 10 best death metal albums of 2022
From Aborted and Immolation to Venom Prison and Lorna Shore, these are the 10 best death metal records of 2022
"I want to be a household name like Slipknot or Slayer": 5 new bands you need to hear this month
From gothic reflections of smalltown America to world-conquering deathcore, these are the five new bands you need to know this month
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From Tory-bashing metalcore to experimental mathcore and Britain's answer to Every Time I Die - these are the five new metal bands you need to hear this month
Heilung’s otherworldly new album Drif is powerful, hypnotic and unifying
Album review: pagan shamans Heilung host a gathering of the tribes on new album Drif
Imperial Triumphant’s Spirit Of Ecstasy: an exhilarating journey across a jazz-blasted landscape of noise
Album review: masked avant-metallers Imperial Triumphant head deeper into the ultraverse with new album Spirit Of Ecstasy
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From mathcore digit-snappers to the Cayman Island resident working with Iggy Pop and Randy Blythe, this is the best new noise around right now
Cult Of Luna's The Long Road North: "cerebral and exhilaratingly heavy"
Cult Of Luna's The Long Road North offers an arduous yet rewarding journey into post-metal majesty
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe's Bloodmoon: I - sonic trailblazers forge a visionary bond
Converge and Chelsea Wolfe create a transcendental coalition on their new album, Bloodmoon: I
Six of the scariest horror directors reveal the soundtracks that totally creep them out
John Carpenter, Ben Wheatley and more on the horror movie soundtracks to give you the full Halloween fear
King Woman's Celestial Blues: from understated elegance to skull-rattling thunderclap
San Francisco’s atmospheric doom voyagers King Woman extend their singular vision with second album Celestial Blues
Amenra's De Doorn: huge, stately and emotionally devastating
Belgium’s post-metal missionaries take a new route to salvation
“People shouldn’t be scared of dying”: why Eyehategod’s Mike Williams is metal’s ultimate survivor
Heroin addiction, jail, Hurricane Katrina and a liver transplant – Eyehategod singer Mike Williams has faced them all and come out the other side
How to get into… Eyehategod
Where to start with New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod. Warning: may contain drugs
La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s Trivial Visions: cosmic space rock from interstellar travellers
Italian psych-heads La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio travel way beyond the final frontier on new album Trivial Visions
