Having discovered Bear through their senses ravening second album back in 2013, every new moment with the Belgian outfit has been a momentous moment in our musical year and there is nothing different in 2020 with the unleashing of Propaganda,… Read More ›
Pelagic Records
Kruger – Adam And Steve
There is probably a masochistic side to us all that get off on being swallowed up by a vicious wall of blisteringly hostile and sonically destructive noise but also the ability to see and appreciate the beauty in such tsunamis… Read More ›
Dioramic – Supra
There is a clutch of bands with the imagination and mastery to combine mouth-watering beauty and voracious aggression in one heavily imposing proposition but few able to conjure the mesmeric seduction and creative ferocity as found on Supra, the new… Read More ›
The Old Wind – Feast On Your Gone
Feast On Your Gone, the new album from Tomas Liljedahl, the former vocalist of the legendary Breach, is a release which torments and challenges the psyche, emotions, and at times sanity. The seeds of the project The Old… Read More ›
Lo! – Monstrorum Historia
In 2011, Australian violators Lo! seized and exposed raw nerves within the senses with their debut album Look And Behold, at the same time they lit a furnace of passion towards their sonic creativity for a great many such as… Read More ›
Coilguns: Commuters
We have always thought and declared Coilguns as one of the most important bands in rock music today, a group of musicians who are evolving a template for future extreme noise bands to aspire to. Through their varied… Read More ›
Khoma: All Erodes
Consisting of previously unreleased songs written between 2002 and 2012, many tracks which did not make the final cuts of previous albums, All Erodes from Swedish band Khoma is surprisingly strong. It is probably fair to say that with many… Read More ›
Earthship: Iron Chest
Like a sonic juggernaut Iron Chest the new album from German sludge metallers Earthship crushes the senses into a submissive but gloriously satisfied husk. It is a release of crushing riffs, corrosive intensity, and ravenous rhythms toned with a fiery… Read More ›
Abraham – The Serpent, The Prophet & The Whore
Bringing probably the most caustic and violent experience you are likely to be exposed to this year, the second album from Swiss metalers Abraham is malevolent beauty. Abrasive, corrosive, and at times verging on physically unbearable for sure, but at… Read More ›
Interview with Carl Whitbread of Lo!
Lo! Interview One of the more impressive and satisfying albums to see the light this year has come from Australian band Lo! Since forming in 2006 their crushing sludge/hardcore/ black sounds have found an ever increasing acclaim and audience, which… Read More ›