NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn condemns you all to suffer with the new album from Private Prisons) You know us here at NCS (and if you don’t, why not?)… when it comes to writing about new music we’ll almost always favour writing about lesser-known bands over bigger and more notorious names. It’s become almost a perverse sort of

(written by Islander) Today we help introduce listeners to the German black metal band SRPNTS, a band formed from the ashes of the group Zwielicht after their bassist Veit Benning died in 2024. Their debut album Second Shape is now set for release by Serpent Sun Records (UK) on October 2nd of this year. The

(Our writer DGR has been playing catch-up on records released earlier this year when other distractions interfered with writing about them. In mid-July he delivered Issue One (which you can find here), earlier this month he presented Issue Two (here), and now we have Issue Three encompassing reviews of four records released in March, April,

(written by Islander) Less that two weeks ago the Swiss experimental extremists Death. Void. Terror returned after a five-year silence with their release through Sentient Ruin Laboratories of an EP named To The Great Monolith 2.5. The EP’s name signifies a progression from their 2018 debut album To The Great Monolith and their 2020 full-length

(written by Islander) Given the current state of the world and “the music business” in particular, it frequently astounds us that young people continue starting up new bands and pouring their energies into creating songs and playing shows. Didn’t anyone tell them the odds of survival are near hopeless? Well, no one told the Gothenburg