The lads chat death metal 1992. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9V8c6JaEk

For a community obsessed with memory, metal has never been closer to collective amnesia. Much like England after the fall of Rome, we live in proximity to a sophisticated past we seem unable to fully grasp. The purpose of the historical evidence all around us, what it means and how it was constructed, lost to... Continue Reading →

The lads roast my albums of the year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqAVcv6RVX0&list=PLZbgsAZ7MUZXNsl7GTs04M12xKJpZdo2y&index=1

As usual, the value of annually taking metal’s temperature has been quickly lost beneath sycophantic hyperbole spewed on whatever content Enslaved deigned to dribble on their fanbase this year. To be frank, seeds of underground renewal were sown back in 2020, but subsequent years have proved disappointing, 2022 being a particularly dry spell. There are... Continue Reading →

Le Morte: Midnight in the Garden of TragedyOut 31st October on Darkness Shall Rise Productions/Feudal Soil Records Clumsy absurdity. The miserable dirge of Le Morte is certainly a drab curveball. ‘Midnight in the Garden of Tragedy’  takes the corpse of Autopsy and smothers it in black lipstick and nail polish. Melodic content, obscene in its... Continue Reading →

Cruciamentum: Obsidian RefractionsOut 24th November on Profound Lore Records Fortune favours the patient. Next to many of their peers suffering from what can only be described as release incontinence, Cruciamentum’s slow eight year rise from the ashes following the collapse of the lineup behind ‘Charnel Passages’ has paid dividends. Stylistically one of death metal’s few... Continue Reading →

The lads chat metal adjacent music. Thanks to everyone who submitted albums, some really great suggestions, sorry we couldn't cover them all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfj1yd6Mxzg&t=482s

Biolume Part 3 – A Fullmoon MadnessOut 24th November on I, Voidhanger Midnight Odyssey’s output has always had an aura of Schrodinger’s quality. Whether it be the dark ambient black metal of their early years, dripping with atmosphere but still firmly entrenched in the mores of subgenre, or the gradual evolution into epic metal territory,... Continue Reading →

The lads chat 1991 death metal. Apologies for the audio issues on this one, loud mics and too many beers hampered performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dARhB1tS2P4&t=894s

Ivanova Kula: Iskovano u vatri OgnjebogaOut 14th September, self-released Takes metal adjacent ambient back to the halcyon days of the 1990s, when synth options were limited, recording more challenging, and – much like the fantasy gaming genre this sonic wing grew out of – artists relied on their listeners sharing an overactive imagination. Such goodwill... Continue Reading →