Under the needle

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

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

There’s something about the sight of a burning church that’s always guaranteed to leave us black metal fanatics feeling all warm and...

Sometimes, underground music, for all its rejection of the mainstream and outcast mojo, can be quite conservative. We might sneer at the...

The mere mention of a death metal band in the same breath as groove-laden genre kings Aborted is enough to get us salivating with...

Sometimes, the clue’s in the name. Tomahawks are a symbol of American culture, emblematic of the Native Americans who first used them,...

In 2016, the population of the UK voted to leave the European Union. But what has actually changed?

Celebrating 15 years of utter merciless brutality, British death metal legends Ingested journey back in time to their grind-infested...

In the beginning there was a man, and he gave the world new words. And those words were: “THEY BREED! LIKE RATS!”. And we listened to...

One of the most maudlin musical acts currently gracing the ebony vistas of gothic doom metal, Swedish sorrow-smiths Draconian have been...