Under the needle

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

It’s hard to believe it’s been a full three years since Aborted spectacularly decimated eardrums with the brutalising, ingeniously...

The phrase “life-affirming” is tossed out all too rarely these days, but Boss Keloid can comfortably claim this appellation. A band whose...

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?