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Widows – ‘Oh Deer God’

The UK’s sludge/stoner scene is experiencing a real renaissance at the moment, with spectacular bands up and down the country drowning audiences with crashing waves of fuzz-drenched riffs and thunderous bellows. From Wigan’s psychedelic monsters Boss Keloid to Kingston Upon Hull’s ferocious Battalions, via the swarming heaviness

Svart Crown – ‘Abreaction’

It’s a tough job for any band coming back with a new album after an extended break. It’s been almost four years since Svart Crown released ‘Profane’, an album that at its time of release knocked critics and fans back with a blistering mix of brutal death metal

Hunting for Riffs with Khemmis

Whilst on a transatlantic trip over Christmas, I happened to pick up the January issue of the excellent US extreme music magazine Decibel, the primary reason being that it contained their always interesting and often polarising Top 40 Albums Of The Year list. After sifting through said list I reached Number

Telepathy – ‘Tempest’

Post-rock and post-metal are, when at their very best, an elemental musical force capable of lifting the listener into a higher plane of consciousness. It is music as cinematic and breathtaking as it is emotionally devastating. The first time you hear Isis’ ‘Oceanic’ or Pelican’s ‘Australasia’, you’re

Godless Propheteering with Darkest Hour

I’ve been a huge fan of Washington D.C. thrashers Darkest Hour since their rib-crushing 2003 opus ‘Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation’. Or at least I was a huge fan, until the band released their confounding 2014 self-titled album, on which they seemed to abandon much of what I’d fallen in

Hyenas – ‘Deadweights’

From the late ‘90s to somewhere roughly around the mid-’00s, the heavy music scene was a flourishing birthing ground for legions of progressive, angular bands whose goal was to redefine hardcore beyond the tough posturing and thuggish machismo the genre was, until that point, most commonly associated

Group Of Man – ‘World Peace Champions’

‘We Are Good People’, claimed the title of UK post-hardcore troupe Group Of Man’s 2015 debut EP. Its follow up, released in January 2017, goes by the name ‘World Peace Champions’. It seems that Group Of Man have quite the high opinions of themselves (or are just

Wiegedood – ‘De Doden Hebben Het Goed II’

Amenra are one of the most powerful and important underground bands of the last 20 years. It’s a bold statement, but one that cannot be ignored. Their influence as artists spreads far and wide across the European heavy music scene, so much so that an entire collective

Ritual Festival 2017: Casting spells with Conjurer