noise

"The First Circle": EDEN's Unholy Garden of Noisy Delights (Early Album Stream)

Stream the debut album from black/post-metal/noise collective EDEN now ahead of its release.

Take Me Away: Four Otherworldly Albums From 2021

Looking for a way to completely separate from reality? Here’s four albums released this year that construct alternate realities, operate on different wavelengths, and generally achieve total disconnection.

Lung Knots' Blistering Sermon: Open Your "Void Hymnal" to Page Zero (Video Premiere)

Watch a feverish visualization for a song off the industrial and black-metal-tinged noise project’s debut full-length “Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges.”

Pando Conducts Hypnotizing, Discordant "Rites" (Album Premiere + Interview)

“Rites” dabbles in black metal, sludge, and more to enrich its ingenious tapestry of experimental noise; stream the whole album now and check out an interview with the band.

Mortiis, TOMB, and Magick Potion Bewitched Chicago (Live Review + Photos)

The dungeon synth overlord, a ritualized industrial black metal troupe, and power ambient duo cast spells on Reggie’s Rock Club this past January 25th.

Den Conjure an "Iron Desert," the Perfect Otherworldly Landscape

We unveil Chicago-based trio Den’s second full-length “Iron Desert,” a work culminating nearly a decade’s worth of heady and noisy doom for your soul.

Kristin Hayter Offers a Glimpse Behind Lingua Ignota’s Commanding Curtain

In the wake of her latest album “Caligula,” the classically trained vocalist shares the secrets behind her core-shaking presence.

Underground Unusualities #6: Asphodel Meadows' "I​-​VI" Paints Nightmares Under Eyelids

Jenna dives headfirst into the abstract voids created by this one-man DSBM/ambient project from Australia.

Loudness, Chillness, and "Life Metal"

Former Editor-in-Chief Ian Cory drops by to explore Sunn O)))’s monumental new album in light of the loudness wars of yore and chillness wars of now.

Lingua Ignota Awakens a Sleeping Giant in New Song “Butcher of the World”

The experimental solo artist provides a glimpse into the universe of her second full-length “Caligula.”
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