Violence 31 articles

Italy’s laCasta continue to push their sound deeper into hostile and ritualistic territory with OLIBANVM, a record where black metal atmosphere, crust urgency, and symbolic...

Three decades in, INTERNAL BLEEDING are still here – bruised, unbroken, and louder than ever. With Settle All Scores, the Long Island slam originators turn...

Hey from still-scorching Arizona! Week two of This Week’s Picks lands right as French streets erupt, Brussels debates climate targets it won’t meet, and the...

Skulls cracked, bones spun to pieces and brain cells melted. To be perfectly honest with you, this one came as quite a surprise, despite being...

The American deathcore band Carnifex from sunny California has returned after a two-year break with their latest full-length album Necromanteum, their ninth release. For 20...

Hi! Can you share a pivotal moment from “Lifeless Birth” that represents Necrot’s musical growth? I would say the song “Cut the Cord” has a...

Hail! How has your music and lyricism evolved since Aces Wild, and what themes do you explore in “Midnight Assassin”? Lyrically both albums follow a...

Hi! Congratulations on your upcoming album “Global Worming”! Could you share more about the creative process behind this record, especially considering the challenges posed by...

Hi Patrick! “Annihilational Intercention” is HELLWITCH’s latest album. Could you share the overarching theme or concept that ties the album’s songs together, and what inspired...

Here’s a thrashy death metal/grindcore album that isn’t always great but has its good moments, and above all, a lot of energy. The little issues...

The correlation between thrash and death metal is an interesting one. Not because the most brutal and early variants are easily associated with another, but...

UK’s Industrial Metal project BINARY ORDER set November 29, 2022 as international release date for the new album – Messages From the Deep. First Single ‘Violence’ is available here:...

Just in time for the kick-off of their nearly completely sold-out tour with Lorna Shore, cinematic extreme metal masters ABORTED have released ‘Infinite Terror’, their first single...

While one-man bands are a dime a dozen in the bedroom black metal space, and similarly strewn about freely in stoner doom metal, for the...

This new Machine Head album has a pretty good dark groove. There are some heavy tracks, and some complex, odd ones, but they both work...

Bloodbath are back, with a big, heavy, evil album that pays homage to old school death metal and horror movies, but still can stand on...

Let’s talk about your new album. The main themes seem to be death, but also environmental damage and religious cults. Yes. I guess that fits...

Where to begin with this one. I think it’s safe to say that after the untimely death of lead vocalist, Dave Brockie, GWAR didn’t have...

After eight years of silence mad Italian thrashers Evilspell have returned with their third full-length album Padre Vostro, making it even more Satanic and violent....