The tiresome well-being brigade, exuding a kale-scented air of vegan, alcohol free smugness may tell you otherwise, but for Dark Matter the only way to take refuge from the unrelenting misery of the dreariest month of the year is to throw oneself into the frostbitten e...

It's a typical midwinter evening in Manchester: it's pissing down with rain, people's heads hunch into their shoulders as they hurry from bus to pub without getting too saturated or depressed that it's been getting dark at fucking three in the afternoon, So on this Fri...

Riding high on the waves of success whipped up by latest blistering opus Cold Black Suns, black metal stallions Enthroned made an epic return this year with their new album and are now set to unleash a maelstrom of malevolent extreme sound across Europe. The highly ant...

Minus tonight’s tantalisingly blackened line-up, there’s precious little to endear us to the Macbeth of Hoxton. Tucked away in a nefarious-looking backstreet of this charmless, beige-bricked labyrinth of a London district, dated wall art and plastic grapevines adorn a...

Friendly and intimate, with uncommonly cheerful security and upbeat bar staff, Nambucca is a welcome refuge for outcasts from the mainstream. With the canny use of social media and lots of sheer enthusiasm for the alternative scene, this wacky little venue has carved a...

Some acts simply have the gift for atmosphere. However you sound, however many effects and affects you can bring to a stage; if you can mix it all together just so, there is little distinction to draw between a bar and an arena. With skill, either can become a hallowed...

Soon to become as ubiquitous as Once Upon a Time, Mayhem’s Necrobutcher - perhaps in a move to give value for money to fans who relish the band’s reputation for notoriety - has recently ensured every black metal picaresque is now destined to begin with the same refrain...

With the music industry’s grasping, unabated hunger for profit continuing to push acts of genuine substance and character ever further onto the outlying fringes and peripheries of the scene, it’s easy to take a dim view of the present state of modern metal. But just wh...

Sitting down to a write-up of the 69 Eyes, as a first-time contribution to this venerable webzine, is surely an act of auto-disqualification. These beautiful boys, mere flirts with darkness and doom? What have they to do with ravishing grimness? What is there here but...

Now in its third glorious year, the blood runs thick in East London once again with this annual event for horror fans. If you are into the Saw films, and modern jump scares, this is not for you. Classic films from yesteryear are the flavour here. With bigger film festi...