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SHADES OF BLACK: POLDERHAAT, BONJOUR TRISTESSE, SERPENT, ÜBERCHRIIST
(written by Islander) This collection of recommended music will be much shorter than yesterday’s. We’ve got a visitor coming to the house any minute now, and after that I’ll be heading across Puget...
Read at No Clean Singing →OVERFLOWING STREAMS: ARCHITECT OF SETH, CLØUDY SKIES, DUMAL, DUNGEON SERPENT, IMMORTAL DISSOLVER, MESSE DE MINUIT, OUTER HEAVEN, TEMPLE OF VOID, VELNIAS, WITCH RIPPER
(written by Islander) It has been quite a while since I’ve done this, 92 days to be precise — “this” being to use the OVERFLOWING STREAMS banner for one of these Saturday roundups instead of the...
Read at No Clean Singing →NORTHWEST TERROR FEST 2027: FIRST LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT AND TICKETS ON SALE
(written by Islander) As you know by now (or damned well should!), No Clean Singing is the chief sponsor of Seattle-based Northwest Terror Fest. Since the first year of the fest in 2017 we’ve been...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS PREMIERE: HAINTGROVE — “KINGDOMS IN THE THICKET”
(written by Islander) Once again, and for the third time since mid-June, we’re connecting you to the powerful music and words of the Texas-based black metal band Haintgrove. The first occasion...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: ADVERSOR — “SHATTERED VISIONS”
(written by Islander) “[M]erging the ferocious thrash attack of prime Kreator with the soaring melodies of Nevermore and Vektor.” That’s a very quick introduction to the sound of the Italian band...
Read at No Clean Singing →Enslaved Meet in the Mið of Cultures (Interview)
“It’s easier to understand oneself the closer you get to where things come from.”
Read at Invisible Oranges →Skull Blasting with Static Abyss’ Greg Wilkinson (Interview)
Hot on the heels of their stellar third record, “The Dying Hunt,” Static Abyss discussed their writing and recording process.
Read at Invisible Oranges →PLÈVRE – CITÉ MOUROIR
(Andy Synn takes a journey through a dying city with France’s Plèvre) This… is not the review I was supposed to be posting today. No, that review will now be coming next week, due to the fact that –...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS PREMIERE: ORB (OCCULT RENEGADE BASTARDS) — “FIRST FROST”
(written by Islander) Today we help spread the word about a new Philadelphia-based band — a new band, but formed by people who aren’t newcomers to heavy music. The name of the band is ORB (which...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS INTERVIEW: ILLWIND
(This past July Personal Records released a fine debut album [for which we did a premiere] by the Peruvian band Illwind, whose lineup was forged from members of some top South American bands such as...
Read at No Clean Singing →Agonanist Navigates Horror and Grief on “The Spirit of Gravity” (Review)
“The Spirit of Gravity” is a must-listen for anyone who likes their black metal even slightly left-of-center.
Read at Invisible Oranges →AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: WYRDSTÆF — “PRIMORDIAL BLOODLINES”
(written by Islander) On September 4th of this year the Apocalyptic Witchcraft label released Primordial Bloodlines, the debut album from UK-based Wyrdstæf, a band whose music is described as...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS PREMIERE: CUTTERRED FLESH — “THE LETTER U”
(written by Islander) Today we again find ourselves in the favored position of premiering a song from an album by the long-running Czech death metal band Cutterred Flesh. We have done this twice...
Read at No Clean Singing →Fvneral Fvkk Find Forgiveness in “The Beasts of Speyer” (Track Premiere)
The German doom metal band confronts their guilt on their latest single.
Read at Invisible Oranges →The Nightmare Visions of ROTTWEILIN
As a kid, Nightmare on Elm Street ruled my dreams. It’s hard to describe to younger generations what it was like to behold the makeup, effects, and soundtracks of 1980s horror films. Today’s movies...
Read at CVLT Nation →Watch Rozz Williams as a psychopath killer in the film “PIG”
“I found this incredibly frightening pig-mask at a thrift store, so I decided to be “The Pig Man.” From that stint, there was a photo-shoot that I did. I started thinking about the character of this...
Read at CVLT Nation →Upcoming Metal Releases: 9/13/26 – 9/19/26
Here are the new releases for September 13th to 19th–Spin (or skip) new music from Krallice, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Ch’ahom, and more.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Faydark And The Most Unpleasant Place Imaginable, “Menzoberranzan” (Interview)
We spoke with the fantastical dungeon synth artist ahead of their performance at this year’s Great Lakes Dungeon Siege.
Read at Invisible Oranges →RUCKUS’s Debut is a Modern-Day Street Rock & Roll Classic
What do you call an album where every second is a colossal anthem? What do you call an album where every second is a colossal hook? What do you call an album where the singer’s voice is a sonic...
Read at CVLT Nation →The Mad Violent World of EVIL ERNIE
Ernest Fairchild was his birth name, but all of us in the comic world knew him as EVIL ERNIE. The year was 1991 when he burst on to the scene. What made EVIL ERNIE such a good comic to read was the...
Read at CVLT Nation →Watch Trash Humpers by Harmony Korine: Calling All Freaks!
Freak the fuck out with us and watch Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers!
Read at CVLT Nation →The gray space between life and death: The Ruth Snyder execution photograph
The story of the Ruth Snyder Execution photograph and how “ruthless Ruth” became the subject of the most famous tabloid picture ever taken and the crime that shocked the nation. The room was cold,...
Read at CVLT Nation →Blood Incantation’s “Absolute Elsewhere,” or Absolutely Not
Debating the merits of the decade’s biggest death metal album.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Our Favorite Death Metal Albums of the 2020s (So Far)
The most-loved corpses, blasphemies, and extraterrestrials set to blast beats, according to our staff.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Rising From Righteous Ashes! The Anti-Colonial Nü-Metal of FOCO “Whiteness is a Plague”
The rumble that begins FOCO‘s new single “Whiteness is a Plague” feels like an earthquake about to erupt in my skull. And just like a sonic earthquake, their Anti-Colonial Nü-Metal is here to disrupt...
Read at CVLT Nation →Fall Under the Spell of Industrial Witch House of DUSK2DAWN ‘Make a Wish’
I feel like some music is meant to pull you under a molasses-like spell, make you sink into the furniture, drop your shoulders, and lie back while it pours its sonic magic into your ears. As I...
Read at CVLT Nation →Old Gods: A Retrospective on Blue Öyster Cult’s “Curse of the Hidden Mirror” (2001)
The final entry in our deep dive into the Cult.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Album Review: Veilburner – The Three Lightbearers
Artist: Veilburner | Album: The Three Lightbearers | Rating: 5/5
Once again, Pennsylvania has sprouted up yet another spectacular band, called Veilburner. This album was sent to me before its release date in August so I could give it a listen and do an initial album review on it. What seemed like just another album review to me, actually turned into two weeks of constant listening...
Read more →ALL THINGS DEAD NORTH AMERICA TOUR 2014
ORIGIN / KING PARROT / BEYOND CREATION / YOUR CHANCE TO DIE / OMNIHILITY / ONLY ZUUL
View tour dates →BACKYARD MORTUARY / SHADOW OF THE TORTURER / SHROUD OF THE HERETIC / TORTURE RACK
May 16th @ Slabtown, Portland, OR
View flyer →Album Review: Decaysia – From Chaos to Creation
Artist: Decaysia | Album: From Chaos to Creation | Rating: 5/5
Just when you thought Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania had nothing else to offer you besides Dutch Country and the Liberty Bell; from the city of Allentown hails a hidden gem who call themselves Decaysia...
Read more →PORTLAND WAS DESECRATED!! 666
Once again... HEADSPLIT RECORDS COMES MUTHAFUCKING CORRECT!!! What a killer night bands solid the whole time, Pit was fucking off the CHAIN!
Read more →VASTUM / DIOCLETIAN / SHROUD OF THE HERETIC / TORTURE RACK
May 3rd @ Slabtown, Portland, OR
View flyer →Ugly World Tour 2011 – Children Of Bodom, Devin Townsend, Obscura and Septicflesh
Children of Bodom have announced the dates for the North American leg of the band's 2011 world tour, which kicks off on June 24 in Los Angeles...
View tour dates →THOSE WHOM THE GODS DETEST TOUR II [NILE]
W/ Ex Deo, Psycroptic, Keep of Kalessin & Pathology
View tour dates →SUICIDAL TENDENCIES U.S. Tour 2010
Join The Army / Deja Vu Tour
View tour dates →The Decibel Defiance Tour 2010 – Tour Dates Announced!
SUFFOCATION, THE FACELESS, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, DECREPIT BIRTH, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE
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