Under the needle

On a fittingly black and bone-chilling night in late January, we at Team Dark Matter find ourselves in quite the most unique and...

With the marrow-chilling, seemingly interminable grip of winter having finally relented into altogether more mellow, sun-drenched...

With their inimitable blend of pulverising, frantically paced brutality and morbidly entrancing, ink-black atmospherics, Aborted is a...

Whether attending weekend yoga retreats, taking a long, hot bath or brutally anaesthetising one’s inner turmoil with copious quantities...

From Brexit and breathtakingly incompetent world leaders to COVID-19 and an ever-growing catalogue of near-apocalyptic natural disasters,...

From the tortured, ornately gothic imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe to Van Gogh’s exquisitely sweeping, malady-stricken brushstrokes,...

While the less-than-enlightened likes of “Metalhead Memes” may have spent more than their fair share of time poking fun at the...

It’s fast approaching a full three years since Swedish doom royalty Draconian let loose the sumptuous, melancholia-stricken magic of...

In a heavily commercialised music industry that’s long been laden with attention-seeking posers and cash-grabbing pretenders, it’s...

From clashing egos and ‘creative differences’ to life-threatening casualties and personal tragedy, there’s no limit to the many and...