Reviews The big review: ArcTanGent 2024ArcTanGent brings home the bacon with a stellar 10th edition, as Mogwai, Meshuggah, Electric Wizard and more deliver the more unusual side of music to Bristol’s Fernhill Farm.
Features Green Lung’s Tom Templar: The 10 songs that changed my lifeGreen Lung frontman Tom Templar talks us through his life via ’60s pop, doom, and how Manowar “make me feel like I’m holding a giant sword…”
News “It’s going to be biblical!”: ArcTanGent announce Mogwai, Electric Wizard, Explosions In The Sky and loads moreThis year’s ArcTanGent is shaping up to be one of the biggest ever, with Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Electric Wizard, Ihsahn and loads more signing up for the festival’s 10th edition.
Reviews The big review: Damnation Festival 2023From Enslaved to Electric Wizard, Unearth to Undeath, Damnation Festival 2023 unequivocally underlined its status as the destination for all things extreme at the tail end of the European festival season. As always, we were there for every brilliantly gnarly body blow across a truly wild weekend...
News Damnation Festival announce two special Katatonia setsDead End Kings in full and a greatest hits set from the Swedish gloom metal icons? Yes, please…
Reviews Book review: Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric WizardDan Franklin takes you on a wild trip through the world of one of the UK’s most important and mysterious bands, Dorset doomers Electric Wizard…
News Damnation Festival announces headliners Electric Wizard, and a special Enslaved setElectric Wizard’s only UK show in 2023! Enslaved to play Vikingligr Veldi in full!
News Electric Wizard announce new book, coming in JuneTake a trip into the weird world of the Wizard this summer with new book Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard.
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2022Download Festival is back at full-scale for the first time since 2019! Here’s all the action from Donington Park…
Reviews The things we learned at DesertFest 2022Last weekend, DesertFest once again hit the venues of Camden for three days of volume, weed and riffs. Here’s what we found…
Features The 29 greatest songs about vampiresIn honour of World Dracula Day, we count down the 29 vampiric songs that suck the hardest
News Desertfest reveal full, massive 2022 line-upElectric Wizard, Orange Goblin, Corrosion Of Conformity and 75 others will play the London riff fest’s 10th anniversary bonanza…
Features The 50 most evil songs everThese 50 tracks – featuring the likes of Rammstein, Slipknot, Mayhem, Slayer and AC/DC – are pretty damn nasty.
Features 10 of the most believably satanic bandsHere are 10 bands whose love of Satan feels wholly genuine.
Features The 50 Best Albums From 2000From Alkaline Trio and At The Drive-In to Queens Of The Stone Age and Iron Maiden, we rank the greatest albums from the year 2000
Features The 13 Greatest Horror Movie Samples In MetalIn celebration of Halloween, we rank the most blood-curdling crossovers between heavy metal and horror cinema…
Features The 50 Best Album Openers In MetalHere's a definitive list of the 50 best first tracks in heavy metal history...
