Invisible Oranges

We revive our once-weekly column with some weird black metal and a weird comeback-of-sorts story.

Here’s all the new metal that’s releasing between March 12th and 18th, 2023 — spin (or skip) new music from Downfall of Gaia, Kamelot, Kruelty, and more.

The Montreal-based heavy experimentalists follow up on 2021’s “Vital” with a new record that uses stirring extremes in volume and pacing to examine decay and unease.

UMR returns! We owe you some catch-up content, but here’s all the new metal that’s releasing between March 5th and 11th, 2023 — spin (or skip) new music from Tribe of Pazuzu, Isole, Fange, and more.

We dive into the history of vocal ensembles that use extreme metal’s vocal techniques, exploring a few key groups.

The rare artist-vs-artist format returns with Nicky H of Netherlands avant-garde group Laster interviewing Archspire’s Dean Lamb. We’ve also got details on Archspire’s European tour here.

In his longest interview to date, mysterious Lamp of Murmuur mainman M. discusses his new album, overcoming obstacles, and record flippers.

Dutch multi-instrumentalist W. Damiaen’s solo project adventures deep into the shimmering sounds of depression transformed into a palette of colors.

Name your price for these sick releases, including melodic black metal, noise-punk, death metal, and more!