Under the needle

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

With its mind-boggling array of purist codes and conventions, elevated icons and genre-defining legends, few subgenres are harder to...

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...