Few artists move between worlds quite like Eivør. Across folk, jazz, rock, electronica, cinematic scoring and the gaming universe of God of War, the Faroese artist has built a musical language that feels ancient and deeply human, yet constantly reaching forward. With her new album Read More …
There are bands that build their identity around technical ability, bands that chase heaviness, bands that live in atmosphere and bands that reach for something deeply emotional. SOEN have somehow spent more than a decade existing in that space where all of those things collide. Read More …
Napalm Records have delivered another loaded batch of new music, with three very different artists pushing into the next stage of their respective journeys. As I Lay Dying are opening a new chapter with their first self-titled album and two contrasting singles. Ukrainian modern metal Read More …
There are bands you listen to because the riffs hit hard, the songs get into your blood and they sound fucking enormous when you crank them. Then there are bands that send you somewhere beyond the music itself. Amon Amarth have always been both of Read More …
There are plenty of ways to measure thirty years in a band. Albums released, kilometres travelled, festival stages crossed, line-up changes survived, records sold and all those other milestones that eventually get condensed into a few neat paragraphs whenever an anniversary rolls around. Then there Read More …
There has been a hell of a lot of change in the From Ashes To New camp since Australian audiences finally got their first taste of the Pennsylvania heavyweights at Good Things Festival in 2024. For starters, there is another album in the arsenal. Reflections, Read More …
There are some bands you simply cannot talk about Australian heavy metal history without mentioning, and Mortal Sin are absolutely one of them. From those early Sydney thrash days and the impact of Mayhemic Destruction through Face of Despair, international touring, breakups, reunions and later Read More …
Some albums arrive according to a carefully mapped plan. Others sit unfinished for years, waiting for the world around them to catch up. For Robin Staps, Solaris became something even more important. It became the unfinished story that convinced him The Ocean still had a Read More …
There are albums that introduce you to a band, and then there are albums that immediately make you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. For me, Sarcator’s Alkahest was absolutely the latter. I first came across the Swedish band properly when that record landed Read More …
Polish extreme metal legends Behemoth have unleashed “In League With Satan”, the second single from their new studio release I, Scvlptor, which is out now digitally via Nuclear Blast Records and physically via Massacre Records. The track is a reworking of the Venom classic and Read More …
Pittsburgh atmospheric metalcore powerhouse 156/Silence have released their new album From A Distance, out now via Pure Noise Records. The album is the band’s sixth full length and follows their critically acclaimed 2024 release People Watching. To mark the release, 156/Silence have also dropped the Read More …
Some records capture a moment. Others only really begin to make sense once enough time has passed to understand the person who survived it. From Under Concrete Kings’ Impulse Tension feels very much like the latter. I’ve known Joseph Izayea for a few years now. Read More …
