Æthenor is the international improvisational project of Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O))), KTL) Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver) Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver, Arcturus) and Steve Noble (N.E.W., Company, etc) – a key member of the British Free Jazz Improvisation scene. Their latest release ‘En … Continue reading
Anaal Nathrakh was created for one purpose – to be the soundtrack for armageddon, the audial essence of evil, hatred and violence, the true spirit of necro taken to its musical extremes. Since being founded in 1999, the band has … Continue reading
With a lineage dating back to 1977, South London’s Angel Witch were leading lights of a now legendary movement known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal that saw their path interwoven with the likes of Iron Maiden, Saxon, … Continue reading
Arcturus has experimented throughout their career, extracting influences and incorporating elements from all over the musical spectrum including black metal and classical music, but the band was rooted as a metal outfit. On April 16, 2007, it was announced that … Continue reading
Blood Ceremony are an infernal marriage of Sabbath riffing and themanic piping of Jethro Tull, They create a distinctive brand offlute-tinged witch rock. Invoking the mischievous “Pipes of Pan,”Blood Ceremony songs are distinguished by singer Alia O’Brien’senergetic jazz-flute solos – … Continue reading
In 1994, the death-metal guitarist Øystein G. Brun started to work on a musical vision, a vision of musical boldness. Having always been fond of melodious atmospherics, he recruited like-minded musicians from Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Arcturus, Immortal, and Ulver with the … Continue reading
Carpathian Forest are one few legends surviving in today’s Norwegian Black Metal scene – and a band that have stayed completely true to their origins. Equally infamous for their misbehavior as for the pure Black Metal musical filth they’ve created … Continue reading
Doom metal, disco, acid house and Donna Summer had a crash on the highway to oblivion. Chrome Hoof emerged from the wreckage, grooving. London is multi-faceted and contradictory. It is chaotic, magical, glamorous, cold, terrifying, apocalyptic, exciting, mundane, ordered and … Continue reading
These are the lunatics who dare twisting genius and madness into one hard-as-fuck, dark ball and spare no-one, not even themselves. Breathlessly, we ride a storm flagellating mind and body. Elated, exhalted: filled with a higher level of primordial energy … Continue reading
Electric Wizard – the heaviest band in the world. The oblivion and ecstasy of crushing doom and high grade marijuana, a sonic aural trip far, far away from this world, where only cyclopean walls of crackling vintage valve amplifiers set … Continue reading
Gehenna was formed in 1993 and are without doubt one of the original founders of true Norwegian black metal. With six albums and two EPs on their soul-scarred conscience, they have made an profound impact on today’s black metal scene. … Continue reading
ICS Vortex has since his debut on the international metal scene with Norwegian Avantgarde Black Metallers Borknagar – in 1998 on their “The Archaic Course” album – been one of the world’s highest profiled extreme metal personalities. This 6.66 ft … Continue reading
Sometimes super-groups don’t live up to the hype. That has never been the case with death grinders LOCK UP, who feature within their ranks a rather impressive pedigree of extreme musicians. After two classic records within the genre, and enduring … Continue reading
When it comes to the definitive history of black metal, only one name has survived all the sensationalism. Through the church burnings, murder, imprisonments and myopic nationalism, only Mayhem has been able to channel the circus like atmosphere, which surrounded … Continue reading
Black Heavy Metal is the law. Midnight is both a distillation of first-wave black metal magick and an extension into harder-rocking territories rampant with lust, filth, and sleaze. The name MIDNIGHT has been a cult one for years now, but now … Continue reading
Nonsense prefixes such as “stoner”, “sludge” or “drone” do not apply here; this is pure Doom Metal, a celebration of horror, the arcane and the unknown! First gathered together in Southampton in the year 2000 – with the formative ambition … Continue reading
Credited as being one of the very first musical groups to be classified within the death metal genre. Along with San Francisco’s Possessed and Florida’s Death, Ohio’s Necrophagia were one of the pioneering death metal bands of the mid-’80s. Formed … Continue reading
The bands first live performance took place on December 28th, 1985 and since that day Pentagram (Chile) remain one of the most influential bands in the underground extreme metal world, being recognized by groups like Celtic Frost, Sepultura, At The … Continue reading
What kind of introduction could possibly do justice to the most influential grindcore / death metal band of all time? Repulsion is the band that introduced the world to insane blasting drums, bone jarring distorted bass, and the most vile … Continue reading
Once amongst the pioneers of Norwegian black metal, now living legends of progressive experimental music, ULVER are today one of Norway’s most acclaimed international artists. “Dark and tragic” might be fitting adjectives for Ulver’s 14-year career, but “low-key” is definitely … Continue reading
VIRUS is the natural successor to Carl “Czral” Michael Eide’s cult avant-garde black metal outfit Ved Buens Ende, which he formed together with Victonik (of DHG/Dødheimsgard) and Skoll (original bass player of Ulver and Arcturus) in the mid nineties. The … Continue reading
The idea of Wardruna began to take shape in 2002 as a project where founder and main man Einar Kvitrafn Selvik (Jotunspor, Gorgoroth, Sahg etc.) could work with a musical expression and instrumentation very different from what his involvements in … Continue reading
