Promoting metal as art and culture
New Revolution by Simple Radicals The Simple Radicals is a retro/alt-rock band based in the United States from Chicago, Illinois’s great blues and rock city. The band was founded by John Malkin (Lead Vocals/Guitar and John Griffin (Lead Guitar/Vocals) and also includes James Page (Bass) and Griff Johnson (Drums). Together, they capture their collective musical…
Uncrown by Daniel Beckman Ages is a name which represents a timelessness, and an unwavering reminder of perpetuity. And it gives us a sense of awe before the endlessness and vastness of all things that are. Regardless of humanity’s failures, accomplishments, atrocities or triumphs; time, progress, and existence will endure. It felt like the perfect…
Fire In The White Stone By Dan Capp Wolcensmen began in 2013 as a casual solo-project, seeking to create acoustic, atmospheric music with themes based on English spirituality and mysticism. After a well-received demo, Deivlforst Records from Germany released the debut album ‘Songs from the Fyrgen’ in 2016. Due to its success, it was reissued…
Pale Season By Alexander Backlund Not straying far from his most notable roots, Fredrik “North” Norrman founded THENIGHTTIMEPROJECT — a pleasantly nostalgic road for those more familiar with his work in KATATONIA. Our music can be described as an odd blend of four eclectic tastes. The base of our sound is rock, and some fitting…
Home by Alex Richichi The Offering formed in 2015, the quartet has a way of cleverly suffusing all their influences—from black and death to heavy and modern to thrash and power to nü and hardcore—into their story-like songs. Overtime (and across many refinement sessions), The Offering has developed their all-in dynamic into a signature sound.…
Divina Autem et Aniles By Jarrett Pritchard & Clayton Gore Pulchra Morte (ˈpul.kʰra / ˈmɔr.te) began with the idea to re-capture a feeling that has become increasingly scarce in the dense landscape of extreme music today, formation of songs containing weight, atmosphere and feeling. Started by Clayton Gore and Jason Barron (formerly of St. Louis…
Anātman by Alexander Kachar Reido have been around since 2002. The band was founded in Minsk, Belarus, by Alexander Kachar and Anton Matveev. The first album was called ‘F:\all’ and was released in 2006 on Russian label Solitude Prod. The style of ‘F:\all’ could be described as funeral doom with some industrial and avant-garde elements.…
Part Island By Jon Lyon A UK experimental metal band formed in 2006 and known for their melancholic and constantly evolving sound. Latitudes progressed rapidly from the doomy instrumental post-metal of debut EP Bleak Epiphanies in Slow Motion (2007) to the broader scope of acclaimed first full-length Agonist (2009), which fused dreamlike vocals and synth…
Ódn By Jón Aldará, Theodor Kapnas TK: Hamferð is a doom metal band from The Faroe Islands. The music which we write is heavily inspired by our surroundings as well as the history and culture of The Faroe Islands, which we feel gives us a unique sound. There is a certain Faroese tone, a sort…
Woodland Rites By Tom Templar One of the leading lights in the UK’s heavy underground scene, Green Lung’s sound harks back to the golden days of psychedelic rock and proto-metal, injecting those classic sounds with occult venom and punk energy. They released the critically acclaimed debut album Woodland Rites in March 2019, and have toured…
Party In The Chaos By Christian Ceccarelli Deflore is an explosive mix of electronic grooves, heavy n distorted instruments and psychedelic-noise atmospheres, that blends into a genre the band calls Human Indu[b]strial. The industrial instrumental duo project Deflore, represented by master-minds Christian Ceccarelli (Electronics, Bass and synthesizers) and Emiliano Di Lodovico (Guitars and synthesizers), starts…
Queen of Swords by E and A Crestfallen Queen hail from Stuttgart Germany but could have very well been born anywhere in the dark hazy fog of the seventies. The quintet was formed in 2016 playing their brand of Progressive Blackened Rock. The Doom laden riffs are backed by galloping metallic rhythms and hounded by…
Doom Folk by Conny Ochs I grew up on punk and “grunge” music in the early 90s in east-Germany. It was rebellious music and I still love it. From the beginning, I was fascinated by the whole scene. The music, the art, the way of life, developing an attitude regarding what you wanna put out…
1996 By Max Maestrelli We are Abbinormal and we play grindcore, with heavy influences from death metal and crossover/thrash. This is Hellcore: short and fast songs for crazy people! Our first and latest release, called “1996”, is an album in which there are 16 songs: 9 of them were originally composed in 1996 (that explains…
The Other Side By Alex Taylor We’re 5 mates from Sheffield who have been playing heavy music together for the last 10 years. We were originally planning on calling our band Hanson but after discovering there was a band already with the same name, we decided to stick with the name Malevolence. Malevolence had been…
Interzone By Alex Reflex Machine was born out of love for heavy, spastic music, but their sound has since evolved into haunting and noisy post-metal soundscapes with their debut album ‘Interzone.’ I would call our music an “experience”. It’s certainly not for everyone — or anyone other than ourselves, really. We wear our influences on…
Noir Jazz Femdom by Lorenzo Macinanti Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte, also known as MMM, started as Adriano Vincenti’s solo project. The sound was focused on power electronics and harsh noise. Sex explicit lyrics and pictures have been a particularly rough constant, as seen on the first legendary record “Profilo Ottimale delle Ferite” which features raw…
Low Ebb’s Lament by Chris West Lost Orb is one of several studio-only projects created by UK multi-instrumentalist Chris West. The project sits in the sludge and doom genres using weight, melody and non-traditional song structures. The first release by Lost Orb, a single 17-minute piece called Low Ebb’s Lament, features Chantal Brown from Vodun…
Evolution By Übergang Our music is for sure a crossover. We like to play metal in a modern way with a lot of hardcore and rock influence in it. Our lead guitarist Andor composed and recorded the music and our singer Sebastian wrote all the lyrics. We recorded the whole album at the end of…
The Abyss by Jose Mora Appearing in the middle of the currently predictable and monochrome metal scene, Totengott is formed by three experienced musicians proceeding from metal, rock and hardcore bands from Asturias (Spain) with the aim to release the darkest songs that they are able to write and to claim the importance of evil…