(written by Islander) The Arizona atmospheric/depressive black metal band Suicide Forest began life in 2016 as the solo project of A. Kruger. Following a sequence of demos and a live recording, the band released its self-titled debut album in 2018 and a second album (Reluctantly) in 2021, as well as splits and an EP. The

(written by Islander) As another largely abysmal week in global events draws to a close, we’re premiering an animated lyric video for “Abyssus“, a song by the Italian extremists Insania.11 that draws its inspiration from Nietzsche’s famous quotation about what happens if we stare for too long into an abyss. More specifically, the song “stares

(On March 13th FDA Records released Eulogy to Blasphemy, the fourth album by the Swedish death metal band Gluttony, and that motivated Zoltar to arrange the following interview with founding member and guitarist Anders Härén.) Considering the rather ‘modern’ (for lack of better terms, as this had probably more to do with the average age

(written by Islander) Last month we published an interview by our Comrade Aleks with the two members (U. and M.) of the Italian band Urluk, focusing on their new album Memories In Fade. Aleks introduced it with an explanation that although the band had remained true to their haunted lyrical themes, the music has changed

“Das Grausen” (1901-1903) – Alfred Kubin. Sourced from the Obelisk Art History project and serves as the Smiqra and Ὁπλίτης banner image. Expressionist symbolist and at times avant-garde Austrian artist who also wrote one novel. (The release of the debut album Rɡyaɡ̇dźé! by the Chinese project Smiqra probably provided the motivation for our contributor Vizzah