…10th anniversary deluxe remaster features the original 9 tracks (remastered) along with 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Devil Is Fine serves as Manuel Gagneux’s debut release through this one-man project, as he smashes extreme music against African American spirituals alongside a lullaby-inducing electro triptych.
Black metal is perverted through Come On Down’s tremolo-picked fury and shrieking, but then it’s into gorgeous blues croons, classic metal riffing, and back to Satan squeezing Manuel’s knackersack. Whether the genres run in tandem or successively, the blend’s never jarring. Children’s Summon is basically In Flames at their melodeath best channelling Rotting Christ.
Category: hard rock/heavy metal
Hardly a glimmer of light has shone upon the world since Chat Pile broke out into — and against — its awfulness with their staggering 2022 debut, God’s Country. Yet here we are, inching ever closer to the sun all the same.
Sounding the alarm more soul-crushingly than ever, the band remain angry, deranged and mired in the muck of this place. With each release, they’ve sunk further into the dread and spiritual decay their music has always mined, as though modern life keeps rewarding their worst suspicions with fresh evidence.
Their latest, Who Loves the Sun — never mind its brooding, almost-taunting title — is the next evolution of that descent. It plunges further into the band’s sonic depravity, burrowing…
Released in 1986, Seventh Star was the twelfth studio album recorded by Black Sabbath for Warner. The first of three collaborations between guitarist and Black Sabbath founder member, Tony Iommi and former Deep Purple and Trapeze vocalist Glenn Hughes, the album featured the MTV and radio hit “No Stranger To Love.” Pressed on black vinyl, and also available on CD, this newly remastered edition now includes the single remix version of “No Stranger To Love.”
An often misunderstood and underrated album, 1986’s Seventh Star was never intended to be a Black Sabbath release, as the band had effectively broken up following its disastrous 1984 tour in support of career low point Born Again. Instead, Seventh Star was conceived…
…20th-anniversary edition has been remastered from the original tapes and includes an exclusive live LP of the band’s performance at the 2007 Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands.
In the metal community, there are two veteran/legendary bands that, whenever they release a new album, you know pretty much what you’re going to get. We’re talkin’ ’bout AC/DC and Motörhead, of course. While the former band now takes several years between albums, the latter cranks them out on a much more frequent basis, as evidenced by the arrival of 2006’s Kiss of Death (which arrived barely over two years since 2004’s Inferno). The fact that the hard-living group is still at it is an astonishing feat unto itself, but when you realize they’re still keeping pace with…
On Parole Sessions celebrates the 1975-1976 recording sessions for what was originally intended to be the band’s debut studio album, On Parole. Because their record label shelved the project at the time, it was not commercially released until 1979. It stands as the only studio album to feature Motörhead’s original lineup: Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister (bass/vocals), Larry Wallis (guitar), and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor alongside Lucas Fox (drums).
The 50th-anniversary release is organized across a 4-disc set (3 CDs and 1 Blu-ray) containing completely overhauled and unreleased material:
CD1: The Studio Album (Steven Wilson Remix): A brand-new stereo remix of the core 9-track album handled by acclaimed producer Steven Wilson. It uncovers clarity and depth while maintaining the gritty attitude of the original tracking.
CD2 & CD3: Extensive Session Outtakes: Compiled and mixed by Richard Digby Smith, these discs feature a deep dive into the vault with instrumental jams, alternative takes, early demo versions, and raw studio dialogue.
As we hurtle toward Skynet, there is more information than we know what to do with. Great swaths of the population bend the knee to those who orchestrate our demise. We live in an Information Age in which very few people seem to be doing any thinking. This creates an opening for false prophets and self-appointed kings.
Such is the overarching theme of Signal Fire, the fourth album from electro-metal smashers Genghis Tron. As on their 2021 comeback record, Dream Weapon, core duo Hamilton Jordan and Michael Sochynsky are joined by Sumac drummer Nick Yacyshyn and the Armed vocalist Tony Wolski. Unlike last time, Kenny Szymanski from the Armed plays bass.
…“I Am All” is Genghis Tron in excelsis,…
When Slift announced their new, fourth album, they promised it’ll contain way shorter tracks than before, which felt tantamount to Usain Bolt promising to cut his own legs off. Since the Frenchmen went surprisingly viral via a KEXP live session during the pandemic, they’ve specialised in increasingly widescreen space rock, pulling metal, krautrock and even jazz into their heady galaxy, up to 15 minutes at a time.
Their vastness has become key to their identity, particularly during the many, many live shows they play each year, where they add hallucinogenic video to the mix and convey the same delirium as the stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Fantasia’s opening title track is the only song with a run-time that could have…
Few bands could turn sheer volume, chaos, and attitude into an art form quite like Motörhead, and The Löst Tapes, Vol. 8 (Live at Winter Gardens, Margate, 5th Nov 1984) is another explosive reminder of why the band remains untouchable in the live arena. Captured during the turbulent No Remorse era, this newly unearthed recording throws listeners straight into the sweat, distortion, and deafening force of Motörhead at one of their most transitional moments.
What makes this release especially fascinating is the lineup itself. The concert documents the short-lived but powerful 1984 formation featuring Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell, Michael “Würzel” Burston and drummer Pete Gill during a period when the band was rebuilding after major internal changes.
In 2016 and 2025, Washington alt-rock innovators The Melvins toured as co-headliners with UK grindcore veterans Napalm Death under the banner Savage Imperial Death March. The tours showcased contrasting heavy styles. The Melvins, pioneers of the grunge and sludge metal movements, bring intricate riffing at various tempos and odd time signatures, while Napalm Death, pioneers of the grindcore scene, favor an abrasive, ultra-fast mixture of punk and metal with harsh vocals. Now the bands join forces for their first collaborative album, Savage Imperial Death March, and the result is wild, messy fun.
The album features The Melvins’ Buzz Osborne on vocals, guitar, and bass, and Dale Crover on drums. From Napalm Death are singer…
Morning Star finds Këkht Aräkh arriving at a truer, more refined version of himself. Recorded between Berlin and Stockholm, the album emerges from a period of intense personal and artistic growth, blending aggressive black metal passages with immersive, textured soundscapes that feel both intimate and vast.
Since his origins in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Dmitry (a.k.a. Crying Orc), the sole mastermind behind the project, has sought a distinctive path within black metal. This vision unfolded through his debut Through the Branches to Eternity EP (2018) and the albums Night & Love (2018) and Pale Swordsman (2021), establishing a signature tension between ferocious, visceral black metal and delicate, introspective ballads.
The twelfth album from Los Angeles metal veterans Black Label Society has all of the band’s trademarks. Loaded with pummelling riffs, blazing guitar solos, bluesy licks, and a southern rock twang, Engines of Demolition is undeniably heavy without sacrificing hooks or accessibility.
Frontman Zakk Wylde broke into the industry as Ozzy Osbourne’s new guitarist in 1987 and ended up creating some of Ozzy’s best riffs. Fronting his own band, Black Label Society, since 1998, Wylde took with him Ozzy’s penchant for pairing bone-crunching heaviness with beautiful melodies. Black Label Society’s music hits hard, but beneath that heavy exterior lies intricate melodies and Wylde’s soulful voice.
The album opener, “Name in Blood,”…
This release unearths a previously unreleased live recording from Boris’s 2019 US tour, captured shortly after the release of the single tears e.p and the album LΦVE & EVΦL.
Released in 2019, LΦVE & EVΦL is a conceptual work consisting of two contrasting yet intertwined albums. Following the heavy yet catchy Noise (2014) and the organic deepening of Dear (2017), the 2019 single tears e.p arrived as a pendulum swing toward pure popness, featuring collaborations with Narasaki (Coaltar Of The Deepers) and Shinobu Narita. Subsequently, the album LΦVE & EVΦL peered into the abyss of “heavy” even further-manifesting a world of saturated contours and gridless, intoxicating soundscapes that redefined…
This release marks the second installment of the 20th anniversary project celebrating the original studio album Rainbow (2006). It documents a live performance recorded on February 8, 2019, at U.F.O. CLUB in Higashi-Koenji, Tokyo.
Michio Kurihara is a singular guitarist who has played a central role in Japan’s psychedelic rock scene through his work with YBO2, White Heaven, THE STARS, and other key projects. Rainbow, created and released in 2006 under the name Boris with Michio Kurihara, reaches its 20th anniversary this year. Since 2007, Kurihara has also joined Boris as a support guitarist on tours and live performances, while performing on several occasions under the Boris with Michio Kurihara name in parallel.
Before Chat Pile took on sold-out tours and widespread critical acclaim, they played Roadburn 2023-their biggest show to date, in front of a packed room of 3,000 on the festival’s main stage. Fresh off the release of God’s Country, the Oklahoma quartet brought their suffocating, sludgy noise rock to Tilburg for their first-ever European performance, delivering a set that felt like a milestone. The bleakness, the anguish, the raw absurdity-it all scaled up effortlessly, proving that Chat Pile’s chaos could consume any audience, no matter the size.
The set was recorded by the Roadburn staff and later remixed by the band’s longtime engineer, Jared Stimpfl, capturing the full weight of the performance. The result is something both…
Taking their name from the mining byproducts that litter their home state of Oklahoma, American four-piece Chat Pile attempt to make sense of a crumbling world through their sludgy strain of noise rock. After finding online viral success with their 2019 debut EP, This Dungeon Earth, the group built their tense sound across the 2020s with acclaimed albums like God’s Country (2022), Cool World (2024), and In the Earth Again, a collaborative album with guitarist Hayden Pedigo.
Blood at Night: This release contains the entire collection of manipulated tape loops recorded during the making of Cool World. Sections of most of these tracks were dissected and subtly woven into the final version of the record. All the original cassettes used on this collection were sourced…

After the early-Nineties alt-rock explosion, bands that had made it big in the Eighties largely pulled their hair out trying to fit in. U2 went disco. Guns N’ Roses spent about 25 years chasing Chinese Democracy. And Metallica? Well, they just got weird — and, contrary to popular belief, that wasn’t a bad thing.