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From Wednesday 29 April 2026

LIVE: Supersonic Festival 2026, Birmingham

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for underground and experimental music for over two decades. Now earlier in the year than usual and scaled-back to two days, the festival nonetheless continues to champion music and culture indiscriminately. It’s for this reason

Friday 03 April 2026

SUNN O))) – ‘SUNN O)))’

For almost three decades, SUNN O))) have consistently left listeners struggling to describe the ineffable sounds that Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson create. Genre-wise, most reach for terms like “doom” or “drone” metal, but those are insufficient descriptors. It’s like saying that Dick Van Dyke has a Cockney accent

Thursday 26 March 2026

Winterfylleth – ‘The Unyielding Season’

There’s a cold remoteness that resonates throughout black metal’s complex and not always pleasant history. It’s often the music of isolation, and many of the genre’s most identifiable characteristics – high-pitched screams, brisk tempos and coarse recording qualities – possess an innate relationship with absence; of light, company, temperature,

Friday 13 February 2026

Converge – ‘Love Is Not Enough’

Nine years have passed since the release of Converge’s last album, ‘The Dusk In Us’. While the more recent ‘Bloodmoon: I’ – the band’s admirably ambitious collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe – prevented the passing of a near-decade of Converge-less time, the wait for a new Converge album proper has

Wednesday 10 December 2025

HEALTH – CONFLICT DLC

“No, it’s not just your imagination,” claim HEALTH. “The future is shit and the phone you are reading this on is making it worse.” It’s a suitable epigram for the twelve industrially-tinged and rather downtrodden compositions held within ‘CONFLICT DLC’. The Californian band are an industrious trio, with a

Friday 07 November 2025

Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork

The world has changed a lot in the two years since Pupil Slicer’s last album. And given the band’s claim that “all of the worst things to happen to the human race have been caused by its own members,” the time that has passed wouldn’t appear to have incubated much

Thursday 16 October 2025

Smote – ‘SONGS FROM THE FREE HOUSE’

Daniel Foggin aka Smote holds the unlikely dual-vocation of landscape gardener and purveyor of imperious drones. While these two professions may appear to be wholly disparate, it is his pursuit of the former – which has seen Foggin “more often covered in mud than not” – that has directly

Wednesday 15 October 2025

LIVE: Blood Incantation @ Albert Hall Manchester

Blood Incantation take to a stage that is bookended by large obelisks. These frame a neat arrangement of beefy amplifiers, synthesisers and, amongst other assortments, a gong. Behind them are the Albert Hall’s non-operational organ pipes. They remain from when the venue was once a Wesleyan chapel, adding to