A new vicious, malicious album from Portrayal Of Guilt keeps their position among heavy music’s strongest firmly intact.
Tag: black metal
In this Review Round-Up, strong black-metal-adjacent work comes courtesy of GAEREA and Hellripper, while Dry Socket are equally great in hardcore.
The grand, manic theatricality of Avatar’s melodeath arrives at Manchester’s Academy.
MØL’s hybrid of black-metal, post-metal and shoegaze continues to push and open its boundaries, with tremendously evocative results.
2025 is coming to a close, so we’ve gone back through the last 12 months to take a look at all the major rock, metal, punk and alternative releases that we missed.
Expanding from mathcore into the darker, more industrial reaches of metal finds Pupil Slicer at their most crushing, uncompromising, and just plain best.
Although it could do with a bit more worth revisiting, Mélancolia’s blackened nu-metal is still one of the most exciting developments their scene has made in a while.
Powering through its recent dramas, RADAR Festival returns with a more diverse lineup than ever, with a first day sporting Carpenter Brut, Zeal & Ardor, As December Falls, GHØSTKID, Lake Malice and more.
2025 sees Outbreak return bigger, better, broader and more brutal than ever, headed up by Knocked Loose at their genre-defining best, with more from Deafheaven, Foxing, Speed, Drug Church, Loathe and more.
Behemoth’s newest step at spearheading black-metal arrives here, on an album that’s condensed, intense, messy, and altogether engaging.