Toe-tapping riffs, psychotic witch hunters and DIY recording are the orders of the day when we sat down to have a chat with D.L from The Infernal Sea.
IDLES release yet another wedge of love professing post-punk, with weirdo guitars and a thumping rhythm section to boot.
Enter the dark cruel world of Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General as he tortures and extracts confessions. Depraved serial killer? Or servant of God?
French death metal experimentalists Exocrine return with a Thanos-like perfectly balanced blend of technicality and brutality that offers a little something for everyone of that inclination.
Body Void look to provide a faint glimmer of hope that people can, “create communities in those liminal spaces that don’t rely on mainstream institutions and corporations. Communities that support and provide for each other".
As the cold dark months set in, what better to alleviate that SAD than some wholesome, riff heavy grindcore.
Noise titans Nadja and mathgrind oddbods Fawn Limbs link up to create an album born from the most unlikely pairing of acts this year.
From the tortured calls to arms, to the driving drums and fuzzed out Black Sabbath bass there is little room here for quiet, and no space for inaction.
It's not like Body Void need to try hard to find the overwhelming macabre attitude of the current capitalist hellscape but find it they do.
From crushing heaviness to abject melancholy, 'VOID' treads the razor's edge of aggression and sadness.
Tomb Mold return with a slime encrusted ziggurat of progressive death metal, that might just be one of the best of the last few years.
Blood Incantation's new two track EP shows off both sides of their sound and auditory evolution as they spin off into the void.