Earthen Altar's Arboreal Black Metal Springs from New Beginnings (Interview)
Are you “kvlt” enough to move to another city because of a black metal album? Evelyn Holland is. Inspired by her deep love for Agalloch’s The Mantle, she packed up her life in Minneapolis and relocated to Oregon in 2020, only to be met with global lockdowns. The illusive forestry that inspired other metal artists...
Furia Changes the Game Yet Again With Breakneck Curiosity on "Huta Luna" (Review)
If you stumbled upon 2016’s Księżyc milczy luty (The moon is silent February) by Furia and had expected something, well, I don’t know, furious maybe, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little shortchanged. That was a strange and gloomy album from Poland’s department of black metal weirdness, otherwise known as the “Let the World Burn”...
Prong's Scouring Groove Calls for a "State of Emergency" (Interview)
Prong’s Tommy Victor is no stranger to the music business, seeing as Prong has been around in some form since 1986. Here we are in 2023 and the band just released their 13th album State of Emergency after a six-year gap in full-lengths and about four since the brief Age of Defiance EP. After getting...