They favour arena-intended equipment from the 1970s for quality and sheer volume. Their live shows can reach eyeball-rattling decibel levels...
"This is an emergency. This is a wake-up call," Kelly Lee Owens declares calmly on LP.8 over harsh industrial noise amid frantic, phantasmal...
On their first two full-lengths, Blood Incantation crafted cosmic death metal that launched them to the exosphere. Their journey — on the fr...
For Jean-Michel Blais, aubades is a rebirth. From its opening notes, its whisks listeners away. On the new album from the esteemed post-clas...
The Tayos Caves of Ecuador are steeped in myth and history. Its landscape draws many seeking a special connection to its unique, natural won...
Often the best extreme music — and perhaps much of the best art — comes from broken-down emotions, those fashioned from fear, pain, chaos, r...
Deafheaven have never been a band to shy away from their artistic vision. Their landmark sophomore LP, Sunbather, melded black metal's fury...
Caid Jones is one of Winnipeg's rising young rappers, so it probably surprised some when, before his debut EP No Distractions Please had eve...
The word "detritus" evokes disintegration, debris and things wearing away. Sarah Neufeld's Detritus works through its own process of renewal...
There's a thoughtful levity to JayWood's music, one that enlivens as it uplifts, built from the act of continuation and a considered yet eff...
The Armed are a band known for their elusiveness. The mystery surrounding the extreme group is made up of things like fantastical music vide...
Tunic's music is all about complex and chaotic catharsis. Since releasing their debut 7-inch in 2016, and when they still could, the Winnipe...
Meditations on humanity's impact on the Earth will remain prevalent as the world continues to navigate challenging times. On Dream Weapon, G...
Bernice's entrancing music holds no bounds — the Toronto-based group are keen to throw genre expectations to the wind, and ultimately for th...
Blessed's edge is defined by energy and experimentation, of exploring new avenues just to see where they'll go. At the heart of the Abbotsfo...
HEALTH have a knack for collaboration. Their music, meeting at some offbeat and danceable crossroad between noise, industrial and electronic...
What Mary Lattimore has done with the harp is something to behold. Through looping, prowess and an experimental spirit, the Los Angeles-base...
Over three decades into their career, grindcore torchbearers Napalm Death still mine and expose the depths of humanity in its true, savage f...
Los Angeles experimental rockers Sprain make bleak and knotty music that pays in catharsis. Their new album, As Lost Through Collision, comb...
Virginia grindcore legends Pig Destroyer never disappoint when it comes to punishment and pushing their sound. Following 2018's monstrous He...
