June 25, 2026
TODOMAL’s `Graveyards of Joy` Is a Trilogy-Closing Reckoning with Loss, Landscape, and the Stubborn Persistence of Hope – Album Review
There is a painting on the cover of Graveyards of Joy — Ruïnes (1865) by Catalan artist Lluís Rigalt that…
June 24, 2026
Download 2026: Three Days of Chaos, Catharsis, and Crowd Surfing at Donington
Download XXIII Festival (2026) – Review by Howard Keogh Photos by Enda Madden Download Festival is still evolving. This year’s…
June 13, 2026
Bloodstock Open Air 2026 Preview: Twenty-Five Years in the Field
Twenty-five years is a long time to keep anything alive – let alone an independently owned, uncompromising heavy metal festival…
June 12, 2026
“Krew i Pył” (Blood and Dust): The Polish Extreme Metal Underground and the Weight of a Nation
My grandmother came to America after the Second World War with her Catholic faith largely intact and almost nothing else.…
June 11, 2026
Iceland’s Next Voice: FORSMÁN Arrive with `Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur` – Album Review
Iceland’s black metal scene has earned its reputation not through volume alone but through a genuine conviction that is difficult…
June 8, 2026
The Weight of What Remains: FIRES IN THE DISTANCE Deepen Their Vision on `Circadian Promise`
There is a category of album that announces itself not through force but through gravity – records that don’t demand…
June 8, 2026
Two Fires, Different Woods: UADA, Blackbraid, and the Soul of American Black Metal
Black metal has always been a music of place. Its most canonical recordings carry geography in their DNA – the…
June 6, 2026
NUCLEAR TOMB’s `Epoch Inhumane` Is the Sound of Progressive Thrash Fully Metabolized – Album Review
There’s a strain of thrash that has always been more interested in the wrong chord than the right riff, more…
June 4, 2026
From Invocation to Benediction: KHEMMIS Conjures Their Defining Statement – Album Review
There is an argument to be made that choosing to self-title your fifth album is an act of either supreme…
June 3, 2026
Two Testaments, One Truth – An Interview with Chuck Billy
He screamed his way into metal history. Then cancer tried to silence him for good. Chuck Billy — the iconic…
