After seven years since Embrace Of The Godless Aeon, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but they actually came through. This feels like proper Hecate...
Dead Sleep return with a sharper, more stripped-down attack on Repulsion, an EP that trades ornamentation for instinct and discomfort. In this conversation, Anna Wagner...
Poland’s VARMIA have never approached black metal as simple songwriting. With their new album, the band push deeper into a world where ritual, ancestry, landscape...
Emerging from the Pacific Northwest, Old Moon channel grief, isolation, and emotional vulnerability into a sound that blends black metal atmosphere with melodic death metal...
Greek heavy rock trio Fuzzing Nation talk about their debut album Mothertruck, a concept record that builds its own dusty, post-apocalyptic world without losing the...
For over three decades, Hecate Enthroned have remained one of the defining names of the UK symphonic black metal underground, balancing grand atmosphere with the...
Colombia’s Warthrash have spent years sharpening their sound from raw thrash aggression into something darker, heavier, and far closer to classic death metal. With No...
Peru’s HELL TREPANNER aren’t interested in modernizing death metal or polishing its edges. Since their formation, the band has remained devoted to the raw violence,...
Brazil’s ABSTRACTED have never been a band interested in technical excess for its own sake, but with Hiraeth they sound more focused, emotional, and confident...
For more than a decade, Maneating Orchid have been creating some of the most chaotic and unpredictable extreme music coming out of India’s underground. With...
It hasn’t been long since their debut, but DEUS SABAOTH have already moved forward with Distortion of Lies. I spoke with them about how the...
ANUBIS have gone through constant change over the past few years, with shifting lineups and evolving ideas shaping their direction. Speaking with the band about...
Sleeping Giant has just released The Beauty of Obliteration, a six-track live recording. I spoke with Árni Björn Björnsson (guitars) about the approach behind the...
Hailing from Salvador, Bahia, a city with a deep but often overlooked extreme metal history, Papa Necrose have been grinding their way through the underground...
With Anti Life, the band dives headfirst into a darker, more aggressive headspace, reflecting both personal struggles and the weight of the world around them....
Splendidula has been carving their place in atmospheric music since 2008, but their new album Absentia arrives after a period of deep loss and upheaval....
There’s something very self-contained about The Purest Ending. Written, recorded and shaped almost entirely by one person, it comes across less as a traditional album...
Over the past three decades, Slovakia’s death metal underground has produced its share of dedicated bands, and Dehydrated are among those who have remained active...
With And Now We Die now out in the world, Vanishment close a chapter that’s been unfolding since 2019. Formed by members with roots in...
On April 3, 2026, Ukrainian folk metal project ORATHANIA will release its debut album Echo Of Freedom via Archivist Records. ORATHANIA was formed in Kyiv in 2025 by Ukrainian lirnyk-kobzar Borgvarr together with Varggoth and Karpath from the original line-up...