Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

Völur

Ancestors

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2017

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

Metal and Hardcore 2012: Eschatology Gone Wild

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Whether your end times look more like the Norse prophesies of Ragnarok, the Book of Revelations, or a zombie plague, few things are more me...

Whores.

Gold

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2016

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...

Anciients

Voice of the Void

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2016

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

Dangers

The Bend in the Break

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2016

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

Epica

The Holographic Principle

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2016

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

Oathbreaker

Rheia

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2016

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

Forteresse

Thèmes pour la Rébellion

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2016

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