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The mysterious, international black metal tricksters find new ways to destroy black metal's fundamentals on a new LP and offer thoughts on creativity versus scholarship in a new 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.

The mysterious death/grind/et cetera project's newest album sees their fractured sound condensed down into shorter bursts with as much insanity as ever. Read our full review.

The Sumac vocalist and guitarist discusses the limitations of metal, the joy in creating, and the necessity of being tripped up.

The Locrian and Sun Splitter guitarists' 2015 live set recalls a golden age of modern Chicago experimental music.

This black metal duo broke the mold altogether, weaving jazz, blues, and more into their latest release "Come and See" -- the album's tense timbre draws inspiration from the difficult realities of life in American public housing.

We exchanged with the enigmatic Liturgy mastermind who's also found artistic release through opera -- "Origin of the Alimonies" began a new creative cycle for Hunt-Hendrix, and today he released a new music video "Pasaqalia II" that connects that opera to Liturgy's rece…

The band's tour seems to be going extremely well; last night's show in Chicago sold out, and the performance was top-notch, but over-cramped venue conditions led to some grumpy fans.

Ten obscure, eccentric, or otherwise obtuse non-metal releases with experimentation and artistry at their cores.

We caught the Lingua Ignota show in Philadelphia on Tuesday -- project mastermind Kristin Hayter follows few (if any) conventions in her esoteric and moving performance.