By Daniel Lake, out on Decibel Books The BBC is often accused of bias from both the left and the right. Many claim that this is a good thing, an indication that its reporting is honouring its core tenet of impartiality. So it would seem with Daniel Lake’s recent book ‘USBM: A Revolution of Identity... Continue Reading →

Metalheads – including this one – can sometimes have a weird relationship with teleology. We log certain incidental styles and artists only with a view to how they influenced where we are today. Our need to go back time and again and plot the evolution of metal and its subgenres, logging the significant releases and... Continue Reading →

Cmpt:  Krv i pepeoOut 21st December on Osmose Productions Following on from ‘Mrtvaja’, a debut EP that rivalled many of the lofty full lengths to be released in 2021, comes Cmpt’s debut album ‘Krv i pepeo’ (Blood and Ash). This mysterious Serbian outfit retains its anonymity, and beyond some exposition around this project’s dedication to... Continue Reading →

#37 – Byrin Dall: Prolific musician Bryin Dall (Thee Majesty, Hirsute Pursuit, Throbbing Gristle, etc) joins to discuss his innumerable projects, background, personal experiences, insights, gay culture, etc. Special guest co-host A.j. Martinez (owner of Propaganda Palace in San Antonio) joins to lend his expertise on Bryin’s exploits and industrial music.

Article by Jason, aka Lonegoat from the Necroclassical project Goatcraft and the host of the Necropolis podcast Symbolism can be very powerful. It hints at ideas greater than the world as it is presented in front of our eyes. The Green Sea bases its premise on symbolism; that of returning to the ocean, of a... Continue Reading →

Winterstorm: VinterstormenerOut 3rd December on Signal Rex If I were to indulge in a gross oversimplification for a moment, I’d say that the history of black metal from a sonic perspective has been a continuous process of overcoming. The motivation of its original innovators was about reclaiming metal as a primitive and dangerous form of... Continue Reading →

Reveal!: DoppelherzOut 10th December on Sepulchral Voice Records Execration, Horrendous, Atvm, Morbus Chron (deceased), what do these artists have in common? Well, whatever divergence in quality one could argue for, between them they represent an interesting progressive direction quietly beavering away in the bowels of death metal, seemingly unbeknownst to today’s self-congratulatory taste makers still... Continue Reading →

Necropolis Podcast #36 – Dobber Beverly (back with a vengeance): Dobber Beverly (Oceans of Slumber, Necrofier, Malignant Altar, etc) returns to Necropolis to talk about his bands. Much insight of the industry is cast in this episode. We originally just planned to talk about Necrofier but decided it would be best to just cover Dobber... Continue Reading →

Here’s a crazy notion: maybe the modern music fan is more open to dense and extreme music than at any point in the last seventy years, and maybe they don’t require another reader’s digest of poppy death metal spoon fed to them by the gabbling pondlife of metal’s internet fandom. The modern listener is happier... Continue Reading →

Celtic Frost’s ‘Into the Pandemonium’ was an interesting watershed for extreme metal. Despite the mixed response at the time and the album’s undeniable inconsistencies, it should be credited for strengthening metal’s relationship to eccentricity. In 1987, at the height of down-the-barrel thrash, heavy metal bombast, and burgeoning underground extremity, came this unsure, faltering and unbearably... Continue Reading →