After more than three decades behind a drum kit, Wisconsin musician and fourth-generation farmer Scott Theis could probably have been forgiven for thinking his days of loading into vans, sleeping wherever there was space and grinding his way across the United States were behind him. Read More …
Thirty years is a long time in heavy music. Scenes change, trends come and go, venues disappear, bands form, implode, reform and sometimes disappear all over again. Somehow, through all of that, Segression are still here. Formed in Wollongong in 1996, Segression have spent three Read More …
There are albums that look backwards simply because the past feels comfortable, and then there are albums like IGNEA’s Monumental, where looking back becomes considerably more complicated. Nostalgia here is not treated as an easy escape into better days. It can be beautiful, unsettling, deceptive Read More …
There are certain albums that stop being just records somewhere along the way. They become attached to a place, a period of your life, an old skateboard video, a beaten-up cassette, a festival memory or that one song you and your mates absolutely flogged until Read More …
Italian symphonic power metallers TEMPERANCE return on October 16 with their eighth studio album, Arcani, through Napalm Records, and this time the band have finally stepped into a world that has been hiding in plain sight around their own name for more than a decade. Read More …
When I first caught up with Canadian multi-instrumentalist Ryan Koepke through a written Crannk Q&A in 2025, Cepheidae Variable was very much his baby. The debut album, Primordial Reverie, was this massive instrumental journey through progressive metal, orchestration, synths and science fiction inspired soundscapes, with Read More …
There are ambitious concept albums, and then there are albums that feel like somebody has emptied the entire contents of their head onto the table and somehow found a way to turn it all into music. Annihilus Mundi’s forthcoming second full-length, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Read More …
Gunnhild Sundli and Magnus Børmark discuss Norwegian folklore, Eurovision, creative change and the stories behind GÅTE’s new album Sigil Norwegian folk rock trailblazers GÅTE have never approached tradition as something that belongs behind glass. Across more than two decades, the band have drawn upon Norwegian Read More …
There is still plenty of darkness inside ATER. The crushing low end, extreme vocals and heaviness that drove 2024’s Somber haven’t suddenly disappeared. If anything, they’re now sitting inside something much bigger. On album number three, Everlasting, Chilean dark metal outfit ATER are pulling gothic Read More …
There is a moment early in my conversation with Falsimonian guitarist, keyboardist, composer and producer Jesus Fuentes Valverde where a lot of what sits behind the band suddenly starts making sense. Before the jazz degrees, before melodic death metal collided with Latin rhythms and before Read More …
There are album titles that simply sound good, and then there are album titles that carry considerably more weight once you understand the person standing behind them. For Melbourne hard rock outfit Ion Sky, Before We Die falls firmly into the latter category. The band’s Read More …
There is something pretty bloody satisfying about catching up with an artist a couple of years down the track and being able to pick up the conversation almost exactly where you left it. The last time I caught up with TUNGSTEN vocalist Mike Andersson, the Read More …
