Under the needle

With the crippling double-whammy of COVID-19 and Brexit leaving this lonely little isle largely bereft of overseas black metal talent, we...

In an age of heavily marketised trends, overnight superstardom and vapid, attention-seeking celebrities, the concept of forging a...

Having amassed a whopping 12 albums of epic, darkly brutalising carnage forged over more than 30 years of relentless, boundary-pushing...

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

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

Whether shielding child sex offenders, seizing control of women’s reproductive rights or being used to legitimise a host of bloodthirsty...

As far as inspiring dark and thoroughly disquieting feats of artistic brilliance goes, suffice it to say that the year 2020 has done a...

In a scene riddled with woefully uninspiring posers and pretenders, there are certain bands that have a rare knack for cutting straight...

One of the few silver linings of lockdown has been the opportunity to stick something brutalising on the stereo, roll up our sleeves and...

Forging music out of the darkest, most unspeakably tortured and broken parts of ourselves has long been something of an occupational...