avant-garde metal

The black metal world was gifted with a surprise new Krallice album last week — after about one billion listens over the weekend, here’s where we arrived with our thoughts.

Hey DJ, can you play my abstract, slit-your-wrists black metal track?

They’ve got more records than Guinness

Keeping Portland weird

When Death Shalt Close the Eyes of the Full Moon

Mere sound and smoke

An old-fashioned horn raising

Orchestral manoeuvres

Randy roads

Stuart Dahlquist on life after doom