Cirith Ungol's Triumphant Return to New York (Show Review + Jarvis Leatherby Interview)
Cirith Ungol returned to NYC on Sunday August 20th, their first time since playing the Defenders of the Old Festival in 2017, as well as their first appearance since releasing the powerful Forever Black in 2020. The album, whose supreme power was snuffed out by the Pandemic, stands as one of the best comeback metal...
On "Childhood is a Knife in the Throat," Rorcal Explore Lasting Trauma (Video Premiere)
With an apparent fixation on digging into open wounds, Swiss experimental extreme metal group Rorcal broaden their horizons and sharpen their knives on their sixth-full length album Silence. There’s an obvious amount of irony in the album title, of course, but it’s an especially severe dissonance in this case: Rorcal combines blackened, sludgy doom and...
Ashbringer Share "Pages" Ahead of New Album (Premiere)
Atmospheric black metal greats Ashbringer dropped a new track from their forthcoming album, We Came Here To Grieve, out September 29 via Translation Loss Records. “Pages” gives us a taste of the melody and balanced yet psychedelic approach that the new album offers. “As we began writing for this upcoming album, ‘Pages’ was the first...