Toby Cook

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Salem's Pot

Fresh meat: the three best new bands from metal's underground

By Toby Cook published

Salem's Pot, King and MaidaVale: we bring you the best new music coming from metal's underground

Bands & Artists
Matt Pike singing into a microphone

The 10 Best Songs Of Matt Pike's Career

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Matt Pike of Sleep and High On Fire picks 10 stand-out songs from his own back catalogue.

Tracks & Singles
Big Business, Command Your Weather album cover

Big Business – Command Your Weather album review

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Melvins collaborators Big Business strike out alone once more with new album. Read our review here...

Albums
Mayhem live in Bristol

Mayhem live review – Bristol, The Fleece

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BM legends retrieve their classic album from the ruins

Concerts & Shows
Bongripper live in Bristol

Bongripper live review – Bristol, The Fleece

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International noisemakers Bongripper unite in the West

Concerts & Shows
Inter Arma, Paradise Gallows album cover

Inter Arma – The Paradise Gallows album review

By Toby Cook published

Richmond’s cerebral metallers Inter Arma make a splash with new album. Check out our review here...

Albums
Haast's Eagled album cover

Haast's Eagled – II: For Mankind album review

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Welsh doom predators Haast's Eagled feast on their forebears

Albums
30,000 Monkeys album cover

30,000 Monkies – I Ate Myself To Grow Twice As Big album review

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Belgian noisemakers 30,000 Monkies throw some terror into their tomfoolery

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Nadja album

Nadja: SV

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Canada’s metal-gaze duo head too far into stealth mode

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Cannabis weed leaf Amsterdam

The 10 best stoner metal songs

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Ten tracks to soundtrack your stumble through the haze maze

Tracks & Singles
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11Paranoias / Meadows / Kylver / Old Man Lizard

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North/south doomsayers tune in to a new dimension

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Horse Latitudes: Primal Gnosis

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Finland’s ritual doom crew gain a new, stellar perspective

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Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas: Mariner

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Sweden’s post-metal overlords return to take you higher

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Zhrine: Unortheta

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Iceland’s extremists put their stamp on black metal

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What's going on with the new Melvins album?

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We talk to Melvins' Buzz Osbourne about new album Basses Loaded

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New Keepers Of The Water Towers: Infernal Machine

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Sweden’s cosmic riff lords battle against expectations

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Hemelbestormer: Aether

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Dutch post-metal cosmonauts expand their horizons

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The Body & Full Of Hell: One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache

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Noise/grind collaborators plough an uninviting furrow

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Black Cobra

Black Cobra: Imperium Simulacra

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San Fran sci-fi riff technicians fail to forge into the future

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WOWS: Aion

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Italy’s eclectic post-metallers misplace their kitchen sink

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Monolithe: Epsilon Aurigae

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French funeral doom troupe discover the power of paring

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The Body & Krieg: The Body & Krieg

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Guardians of gruesomeness get their knobs out

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Saviours: Palace Of Vision

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West Coast riff monsters put the pedal to the metal

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Dragged Into Sunlight/Gnaw Their Tongues: N.V.

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Sonic insurrectionists trade nightmare visions

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Shining: International Blackjazz Society

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Norway’s sax attackers hone their havoc

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