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Co-Editor-in-Chief Jon Rosenthal weighs in on his favorites from 2023, including a selection of favorite demos.

I’m really glad to have the opportunity to share more about Forêt Endormie‘s new album, Le désespoir utopique.  Conceptually, Le désespoir utopique came out of the idea of how some people relocate because they’re privileged, and others because they are forced to; some can’t move because of lack of privilege and others are able to...

Oldest Sea’s new album A Birdsong, A Ghost unites folk and funeral doom. Check out a new video here.

The Hexvessel (and once DHG and Code frontman, among others) discusses the band’s seismic shift to a more black metal-oriented sound on their upcoming record, “Polar Veil,” in a new interview.

Folk artist and Agalloch collaborator Nathanael Larochette picks his favorite instrumental, “not metal” albums made by metal artists.

Dutch metal avant-gardist Ruben Wijlacker’s IJdelheid project’s dark folk musings starkly contrast against his main metal band on its second album.

Ohio dark-folk practitioners OSI and the Jupiter are touring through the US starting in September, kicking things off at Scorched Tundra in Chicago.

We talked to Ilmari and Tyko from Finnish progressive folk troupe Tenhi about their new album and how long it took to get to this point.

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.

Former Ulver and Satyricon guitarist Håvard “Haavard” Jørgensen released his debut full-length album last November — Kelley Simms talked with this musician about his return to the “Kveldssanger” sound (with a modern twist).