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Tampa Death Fest 2026 Returns for Two Nights of Extreme Metal
Tampa’s reputation as one of the foundational homes of American extreme metal is built on decades of history, but the city’s underground remains very...
Features
Metal Machine Music V1 & V2: Power To Consume
For as long as I can remember, there have been conversations and debates around Record...
The Most Disturbing Albums In Underground Music
For those believing they've heard the most "extreme" within experimental, beware!
The Vomit Arsonist’s To What End Review
Released in March 2025, To What End is a record that is framed as a...
35 Best Albums of 2025
From the transcendental ambient of Brian Eno and Ethel Cain to the uncompromising auditory assault of Genocide Organ and Prurient, we’ve sifted through the wreckage to bring you the 35 essential releases. Dive into our definitive guide to the year’s best Industrial, Black Metal, and Experimental sounds.
Remembering Ian Curtis On His Wedding Day 23 August, 1975
On 23 August 1975, 19-year-old Ian Curtis married Deborah in a peach suit, starting a troubled 5-year marriage. Read the full story.
Remembering Caroline K – Now Wait For Last Year: Forgotten Industrial Ambient Masterpiece
Discover Caroline K's "Now Wait For Last Year" - the forgotten 1987 industrial ambient masterpiece from Nocturnal Emissions co-founder.
News
Baby Chico Records & Syrup Head Recordings present Barely Breathing V
For the past five years, Barely Breathing V has become one of the Northeast's essential gatherings for participants of the powerviolence, grindcore, power electronics,...
Interviews
Tatv Gral: The Treachery Interview
In this interview, Tatv Gral discusses asking four remixers to uncover something within Treachery rather than simply reinterpret it, and the unplanned narrative that emerged. Topics include Hellenistic astrology, James Hillman, Coil's lived esotericism, and industrial music's transgressive tradition seen through a queer archetypal lens.
Reviews
YZBL – Hermaphrodite Album Review
On her Feral Crone Recordings debut, YZBL fuses the heaviness of industrial doom with the hypnotic pulse of 90s trip hop, turning a private war with dysphoria into a wider act of solidarity with anyone at odds with categorisation.
Purge Records: Various Artists’ Pure Pain V1
Pure Pain Vol. I is a strong debut statement from Purge Records: not simply a...
MEINSCHAFT – Empire of Liberty | Album Review
Six years in the making, the Southern Appalachian duo's fourth album exhumes what's left of American empire without ever settling for a simple sneer.
Imminent Death – Scorched Earth Gallop
On Scorched Earth Gallop, New York experimental noise artist Allison Tantakarn, working under the name...
Review: AD Ozium – In the Style of Dead Sparrows
Some records invite interpretation, while others seem actively hostile to it. In the Style of...
Misery//Pleasure – Psychology of Sickness | Album Review
Misery//Pleasure's Psychology of Sickness condenses month after month of hospital confinement into a seeping, accumulative wall of dark ambient and noise, anchored by the devastating 'Nurse - Patient Interaction'.



























