From their every weightily pulverising blast and gargantuan slab of sinewy groove to elegantly manipulated lashing of tremolo, Hate have...

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The horror comedy; it can go scare scare, scare, laugh, or laugh, laugh, laugh, scare. What it shouldn't do is be neither funny nor...

It’s hard to believe it’s been a full three years since Aborted spectacularly decimated eardrums with the brutalising, ingeniously...

Contrary to what the ‘trve cvlt’ brigade would have us believe, black metal has long proved a pretty versatile and accommodating medium...

Just a few months back, many of us would have balked at the possibility of an actual, real-life gig, let alone an immense, five-day long...

The phrase “life-affirming” is tossed out all too rarely these days, but Boss Keloid can comfortably claim this appellation. A band whose...

If humankind’s consistently mindless, self-serving and hatefully bigoted behaviour during these continually troubled times has taught us...

The pandemic has seen music choked in so many ways, especially live, and more than a few bands have certainly suffered and even...

Probably the most progressive and interesting horror film of the ’90s. Fact is, if you have Philip Glass doing the soundtrack, you are...

For the first time in many long and arduous months, our dreary little isle is finally approaching something resembling normality, with...

When it comes to accepting or (God forbid) perhaps even actively embracing a band’s natural sonic evolution, our beloved extreme metal...