Following in the footsteps of their 2018 demo “Through the Burial Bog” and 2020’s MLP “The Gate of Grief,” BOG BODY has transcended the cultic guts of black metal’s early forefathers with a subsonic war doom incursion for their debut album that’s as much a dirge as it is pandemonic fervor, traversing beyond the seracs and into the crevasses of black death.

Hexahedron documents the second of the two dazzling, sold-out Ulver shows in the legendary Studio at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter at Høvikodden back in April 2018. A special commission and “an honourable undertaking”, as Tore Ylwizaker put it in their career-spanning book Wolves Evolve – The Ulver Story, published last year. “To orientate our music into an art setting is appealing to me”, he said. “Doing whatever we want, not knowing what it’s supposed to become or where it will end up.”

The fourth album from this amazing band. Forget all the restrictions of fad genre tags. Blood Ceremony were doing it way before the term ‘occult rock’ even existed. In a scene flooded with pale imitators, Blood Ceremony are the real deal. Don’t miss out on this amazing new album, it’s their best yet.

VOUS AUTRES have swiftly established themselves as a torchbearer of modern black metal and 'Sel de Pierre' shines like a dark constellation in the black heavens.

Evolving towards a more melancholic and darker atmosphere, "CHAMP DU SANG" is a subtle mixture of obscure heaviness and lunar light. A full-round trip from sin to redemption, supported by scathing lyrics drawn from the contemporary world and the multiple delusions of human nature.

"From Edinburgh emerges Of Spire & Throne, an extreme doom metal outfit who at this point have a few EPs under their belt and are having a crack at a full-length, Sanctum in the Light. Doom of this style have many contemporaries making a hell of a racket in the darkest corners of creativity; the likes of Lycus and Bell Witch being prominent. So hearing newer bands honing this deeply heavy, monolithically paced metal is always interesting."

Recommended if you like: MASTODON, BOLT THOWER, ENTOMBED, KINGDOM OF SORROW, BARONESS, CROWBAR, KYLESA, DOWN, TORCHE, MELVINS, COALESCE.

Get high on this weed metal cult classic!

Old school extreme metal meets sludgecore. 

Sludge-doom metal / post-metal-hardcore band from Salzburg, Austria.

Bong are back, presenting two side-long slabs of deep space power. In the three years since they last graced our stereos, Bong have augmented their strategy of crushing riffs and momentous drum rhythms with extra lashings vibes cosmic energy. The second track, for instance, with its superbly portentous Borges-quoting title, is remarkably ‘up’ for Bong. Thought And Existence is out on Ritual Productions.

Combining elements of horror-film soundtracks, psychedelic doom, and atmospheric noise, INSECT ARK is comprised of Dana Schechter (bass, lap steel guitar, synthesizers) and Ashley Spungin (drums, synthesizers). INSECT ARK’s intensely visual music weaves interludes of fragile beauty with crushing passages of swirling doom, spinning like a backwards fever dream. “Marrow Hymns” is a wordless song, a hypnotic voice that screams and whispers from a place deep in the furrows, from the bones, from the blood.

Instrumental psychedelic doom duo Insect Ark have creating uncomfortable sonicscapes that feel both intimate and icy cold since 2011. Nightmarish horror film-like visions, outer space travel, and gritty noir textures – all of this and more have been conjured up in their past records, the much-praised Portal / Well (2015) and Marrow Hymns (2018), but now, something even bigger is coming. Prepare for The Vanishing.

HAIL!HORNET rises up from the dirty southern underground with its long-awaited new album ‘Disperse the Curse’. 

Sludge Metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2002.

After much anticipation, JEX THOTH present their second full-length album: BLOOD MOON RISE. Heavy and thick in the spirit of Black Sabbath, brewed with the soul of Sabbath contemporaries like Amon Düül II, Pink Floyd, Heart and Blue Öyster Cult. 

Third studio album of Swedish doom/sludge band KONGH!

Wizard Bloody Wizard is the latest/9th studio album from Electric Wizard; produced by guitarist/vocalist Jus Oborn & guitarist Liz Buckingham & mixed by Oborn this 6-track all-analog affair is the follow up to 2014's Time To Die.

“Universal Death Church” sees LORD MANTIS with a new sense of purpose and focus. More developed and immeasurable, vast and towering, “Universal Death Church” continues the doomed and blackened depraved metal paradigm that has become the signature resonating palpitation surrounding the LORD MANTIS sound. 

“Elegy”, a foretelling of a post-human world, explores themes of loss, grief, and the dawn of a new ecology through the eyes of a lone wanderer. The last human grieves the end of humanity, reflecting on the temporal insignificance of man and the sixth extinction caused by the Anthropocene – the end of our kind brought about by our own hubris, greed, and desire for power over one another. “Elegy” marks the third chapter in the trilogy, which explores our relationship to our world by reflecting on our past, present, and impending future.