Between you and me and whoever the hell else is reading this— my all time favourite subgenre of all subgenres of metal is hands down: sludge metal.
Michell Bidegain, bassist with ultra-doom merchants Monarch, is in a car on his way to Hellfest in France, with high hopes of checking out (among
French experimentalists SaaR haven't gone in for long-winded song titles, instead they've opted for Part I to Part IV on their latest release The Last Day
Oh My Fucking Word. Do you like it extreme? Really, really extreme? Have you ever wondered what absolute insanity sounds like?
Aluk Todolo's album Occult Rock is a diffcult album to review; it's experimental, it's heavy (there's bags of overdrive and feedback) but I'm not sure if calling it 'metal
It’s obvious from both the band and album title that these French fellows are big fans of H.P Lovecraft.