Sometimes an album tells you exactly what it means while you are making it. Other times, you finish the bloody thing, live a little more life and realise the songs understood where you were heading before you did. That is pretty close to what happened Read More …
There are plenty of reasons for an artist to go back and revisit an album. Maybe enough time has passed that the songs have changed with them, maybe the production never quite captured what was inside their head, or sometimes they simply reckon they can Read More …
Thirty-five years and seventeen albums into a career built on refusing to stand still, Enslaved are still finding new ways to challenge not only what the band can sound like, but how they actually get there. Their forthcoming album, Mið, arrives October 30 through Nuclear Read More …
Killer sits down with Nembutolik’s Pat and Hemi for a spectacular derailment involving Frankston’s hardcore scene, Bunnings sausages, duct-taped banana suits, existential philosophy and seven-and-a-half new songs. Australian death metal has rarely been this gloriously fucked up. Read More …
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 …
The Old Ones are three mates from Billings, Montana, making crushing doom and stoner rock. Trevor Stoltenberg talks Vol. II, Lovecraft-inspired mythology, the DIY grind and a third album already written. Read More …
Enslaved drummer, vocalist and producer Iver Sandøy discusses AC/DC’s songwriting magic, making Mið under pressure and why you don’t need expensive studio gear to make a great record. 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 …
Before Dungeon Synth had a name, Mortiis was already building strange electronic worlds. Killer talks to Håvard Ellefsen about Ghosts of Europa, analog synthesizers, sonic experimentation, creative obsession and the glorious art of following an idea into the unknown. Read More …
