Thou – Magus album review By Cheryl Carter published 30 August 18 Sludgy Louisianians Thou dredge up the voice of unrest with Magus
Vanhelga – Fredagsmys album review By Cheryl Carter published 29 June 18 Temperamental Swedish black metallers Vanhelga lose sight of the plot with Fredagsmys
Thy Catafalque – Geometria album review By Cheryl Carter published 4 May 18 Hungary’s avant-black explorers Thy Catafalque add some more exhilarating twists
Thy Antichrist - Wrath Of The Beast album review By Cheryl Carter published 6 March 18 Colombia’s black/thrash battalion move their base of operations
Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice album review By Cheryl Carter published 6 March 18 Leviathan linchpin dredges up his ambient ode to the dark
Rise Of Avernus - Eigengrau album review By Cheryl Carter published 5 February 18 Australian progressive doom crew hit an impasse
Erdve - Vaitojimas album review By Cheryl Carter published 4 February 18 Vast-sounding vitriol from Lithuanian blackened hardcore crew
Greytomb - Monumental Microcosm album review By Cheryl Carter published 8 December 17 Atmospheric black metal from Australia’s unforgiving plains
Blaze Of Perdition - Conscious Darkness album review By Cheryl Carter published 8 December 17 Polish black metal three-piece come to term with tragedy
Nulllingroots - Into The Grey album review By Cheryl Carter published 7 December 17 Not yet rated Familiar post-black metal catharsis from the Golden State
Samael - Hegemony album review By Cheryl Carter published 5 November 17 Swiss industrial metallers expand their territory
Grave Miasma/Drowned/Craven Idol/Crypts Of Despair at Boston Music Room - live By Cheryl Carter published 11 October 17 Not yet rated Occult crew mark 15 years of consciousness-altering DM
Antarktis - Ildlaante album review By Cheryl Carter published 10 October 17 Sweden’s sludgy post-metallers come apart at the final hurdle
Monarch - Never Forever album review By Cheryl Carter published 12 September 17 Funeral doom infused with a haunting Gallic wonder
Ommaddon/Bismuth/Containment at Brixton Windmill, London - live review By Cheryl Carter published 16 August 17 Not yet rated The Gospel - live
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre album review By Cheryl Carter published 16 August 17 German firebrands expand the bounds of black metal once more
Sacred Reich/Damnation's Hammer/Cryptic Shift at Underworld, London -live review By Cheryl Carter published 15 August 17 Not yet rated The Gospel - live
Mothership & Poseidon at The Black Heart, London - live review By Cheryl Carter published 22 July 17 Not yet rated Lone Star stoners get the party going
Merrimack - Omegaphilia album review By Cheryl Carter published 22 July 17 Gallic black metallers lust for the end of all life
Batushka and Noctem at The Dome, London - live review By Cheryl Carter published 26 June 17 Not yet rated All hail the new wave of Gregorian BM
The Body/Uniform/Casual Nun at Electrowerkz, London - live review By Cheryl Carter published 26 June 17 Not yet rated Portland duo unleash electro-shock therapy
Eoront - Another Realm album review By Cheryl Carter published 25 June 17 Atmospheric BM excursions from the Siberian wastes
Wildspeaker - Spreading Adder album review By Cheryl Carter published 23 June 17 Eco-conscious black/crust crew scrape the barrel of humanity
Völur - Ancestors album review By Cheryl Carter published 29 May 17 Canadian three-piece uncover a new resonance for doom
Pallbearer and Pinkish Black at the Underworld, London - live review By Cheryl Carter published 5 May 17 Not yet rated Subterrenea live
