Heilung’s otherworldly new album Drif is powerful, hypnotic and unifying By Alex Deller last updated 16 August 22 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 By Alex Deller published 17 July 22 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 By Matt Mills, Alex Deller, Rich Hobson, Dave Everley, Christina Wenig published 29 June 22 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" By Alex Deller last updated 11 February 22 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 By Alex Deller published 19 November 21 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 By Alex Deller last updated 1 November 21 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 By Alex Deller last updated 28 July 21 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 By Alex Deller published 22 June 21 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 By Alex Deller published 3 June 21 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 By Alex Deller published 7 April 21 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 By Alex Deller published 24 March 21 Italian psych-heads La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio travel way beyond the final frontier on new album Trivial Visions
Heave Blood & Die’s Post People is a genre-hopping headf**k, in the best possible way By Alex Deller published 5 February 21 Ex stoner rockers Heave Blood & Die head off on a kaleidoscopic new trip with latest album Post People
Molassess’ Through The Hollow is a stellar tribute to a fallen bandmate By Alex Deller last updated 15 October 20 Former members of The Devil’s Blood pay tribute to late mainman Selim Lemouchi on the debut album from new band Molassess
You won’t hear another album like Anna von Hausswolff’s All Thoughts Fly this year By Alex Deller published 24 September 20 Swedish visionary Anna von Hausswolff makes the year’s strangest and most beguiling album with All Thoughts Fly
Zombi’s 2020 is the soundtrack to the greatest sci-fi movie never made By Alex Deller published 6 August 20 Proto-synthwave wizards Zombi return after five year absence and strike cinematic gold with 2020
The World According To Converge’s Jacob Bannon: “Perfection is the mind-killer” By Alex Deller published 4 June 20 What life at hardcore’s sharp end has taught Converge mastermind Jacob Bannon about hustling, fatherhood and how to deal with the imitators
Harrowed’s cathartic hardcore is perfect for these chaotic times By Alex Deller published 22 May 20 Kentish hardcore mob Harrowed want you to use your brain before forcibly removing it from your skull
10 dance tracks (and one album) every metalhead should know, by Iggor Cavalera By Alex Deller published 29 October 19 Known metalhead Iggor Cavalera talks us through the dance tracks essential for all metal fans looking to broaden their horizons
Twin Temple’s debut album is the sound of Amy Winehouse worshipping Satan By Alex Deller published 4 March 19 Luciferian odes find their calling in music’s golden age on Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop)
Sumac – Love In Shadow album review By Alex Deller published 20 September 18 Former Isis frontman takes his avant metallers into pastures new
KEN Mode – Loved album review By Alex Deller published 31 August 18 Canadian noise merchants KEN Mode go to the point of no return with Loved
Kontinuum – No Need To Reason album review By Alex Deller published 6 July 18 Goth-tinged Icelandic rockers Kontinuum refine their sensibilities on No Need To Reason