On their debut record, Disir, Toronto-based folk and doom metal band Völur explored the idea of the feminine divine via long, pulsing ambien...

There are lots of different ways that heavy music can be heavy. It can be aggressive, or brutal, or mean; it can be horrifying or sadistic o...

For all of their driving ambition and DIY relentlessness, hardcore punk monsters Dangers have put out precious few full-length records; The...

The problem with progressive metal is that it is either transcendent or insufferable, and the line between these two extremes can be razor-t...

So Epica finally saw The Matrix, and it blew their fucking minds, you guys.   The Holographic Principle is a concept record that revolves...

Belgian metallic hardcore outfit Oathbreaker have always struggled deliciously against the shackles of the genre they operate within, prefer...

Black metal is an inherently rebellious genre: against organized religion, against dominant hegemony, against the sanctity of life itself. R...

Kitchener's progressive stoner metal doomsters Sierra kicked off the festivities at the Hard Luck Bar, and impressed everyone with the quali...

For all their extraordinary success, Norway's eclectic hybrid metal experimenters Kvelertak have found themselves under a great deal of aest...

Sometimes memes turn into to something more than bits of internet ephemera. Sometimes there's some genuinely good art behind the initial sho...

Gary Numan: Android in La La Land isn't about music, but about the internal and relational landscape of the person behind it. The film follo...

The origin story of Grindmother has rather more to do with memes that the average band's creation: Corrupt Leaders member Rain Forest invite...

It's hard to get a handle on what the fuck exactly Lord Mantis think they're doing. After the release of the band's last record, the musical...

Solo black metal projects are strange, nebulous creations, the product of one person's creative imagination but also the culmination of a gr...

When they released their self-titled debut in 2011, New Zealand sludge lovers Beastwars began an epic trilogy of post-apocalyptic concept al...

Despite the fact that the crowd was still sparse at the Opera House when they took the stage, Wild Throne put on a vibrant and high-energy s...

The lineup outside the Opera House was still snaking around the building when Japanese noise demons Melt Banana took the stage, and inside t...

As time marches on, something seemingly impossible is happening: the Body are getting weirder, as evidenced by their new album No One Deserv...

It was Julia Kristeva who first explored the idea of abjection, in her book The Powers of Horror, referring to the specific feeling of revul...

Mayan black metal band Xibalba, also known as Xibalba Itzaes (and not to be confused with California-based extreme metal band Xibalba, thoug...