Articles by Max Morin

Osiah

Kingdom of Lies

PUBLISHED May 2, 2019

If you want to bill yourself as "the heaviest band in the UK," you'd better have something to back it up with. Fortunately for Osiah, Kingd...

Belzebubs

Pantheon of the Nightside Gods

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2019

Black metal's transformation from extreme outlier into campy cultural touchstone has been entertaining, to say the least. Belzebubs, a fict...

After the Burial

Evergreen

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2019

After the Burial don't do easy. According to them, there is no riff that can't fit more notes, no sound that can't be pushed further, no gu...

Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Purple: Baroness Discuss the Colours That Inspired "Complex" New Album 'Gold & Grey'

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2019

"It started with the colour wheel," says John Dyer Baizley, frontman of psych-rock group Baroness, of his group's iconic, colour-themed alb...

Okilly Dokilly

Howdilly Twodilly

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2019

We thought we'd seen it all: pirate metal; Star Wars metal; blackened post-djent trap with jazz influence and skim milk. But Okilly Dokilly...

I Prevail

Trauma

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2019

The craziest thing about I Prevail is that Trauma is only their second album. They've already racked up millions of streams, toured the wor...

Lotus Eater

Social Hazard

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2019

Whatever Lotus Eater have tuned their guitars to, it isn't healthy. These Glasgow punks have plumbed the deepest depths of deathcore for th...

Tyr

Hel

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2019

Tyr certainly haven't gone for small on album number eight. Hel clocks in at 13 full-length tracks, each one a raucous celebration of Tyr's...