Tom O'Boyle
Latest articles by Tom O'Boyle

Dark Buddha Rising - II album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Finnish psychonauts trip the blight fantastic

Huntsmen - American Scrap album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Apocalyptic tales from the broken heartlands of America

Slugdge: The UK's best kept extreme metal secret
By Tom O'Boyle published
Meet Slugdge, the slime-ridden entity that want to destroy you

Untervoid - Untervoid album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Avant-black metal mania from Polish scene kingpins

Malum - Night Of The Luciferian Light album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Finnish black metallers go wild for the devil

Harakiri For The Sky - Arson album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Post-black ruminations from atmospheric Austrians

Drive By Wire - Spellbound album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Blazing desert rock from the sand dunes of… The Netherlands

Godflesh - Post Self album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Birmingham’s industrial metal pioneers start to pick themselves apart

Intervals - The Way Forward album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Jazz-inflected djent with more nous than narrative

Sorxe - Matter And Void album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Interstelllar doom voyagers go low and get high

Calligram - Askesi album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Rampaging Italians transcend the blackcore blueprint

Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Iceland’s expansive black metallers burn bright

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Vol. 1 album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
England’s DIY psych phenomenon revisit their first steps

Katla - Móðurástin album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Former Sólstafir sticksman returns with a compendium of delectable dread

Lento - Fourth album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Instrumental doom merchants determined to ruin your mood

Stahlsarg - Mechanisms Of Misanthropy album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
An orthodox black metal blast with a side order of psychosis

Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
A resonant and rousing tribute to a fallen colleague

Amenra - Mass VI album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Belgium’s transcendental collective return to the battlefield

Spotlights - Seismic album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
Brooklyn-based alt-metallers bring the atmosphere to their attack

Wolves In The Throne Room on new album Thrice Woven
By Tom O'Boyle published
Extreme Takeover: Making music rooted in the very earth itself, Wolves In The Throne Room influenced a whole generation of extreme bands - and they’re back to reclaim their crown

Enslaved on their reinvention with new album E
By Tom O'Boyle published
Extreme Takeover: one of metal’s most fearless modern bands have reinvented themselves yet again. We find out exactly what Enslaved saw in the runes to create masterful new album E

Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
California’s scintillating chanteuse confronts her demons

Five The Hierophant - Over Phlegethon album review
By Tom O'Boyle published
British avant-instrumentalists invite you to take a leap of faith
Get the Louder Newsletter
Select the newsletters you’d like to receive. Then, add your email to sign up.