Six sludge records that sank for reasons of paperwork rather than music: a shelved master, a band that split within a year, a label that went bust. Each comes with its date, label and two songs to play first.
By Gareth Llewellyn
8 September · 9 min read
Portraits
He joined Exodus at seventeen, inherited the writing when Kirk Hammett left for Metallica, and has played on every record the band ever made. Then he spent eight years holding Jeff Hanneman'...
By Declan Rourke
Explainers
Most of the lettering on doom metal sleeves was bought from a catalogue rather than drawn, from Victorian display capitals to phototype faces and a digital blackletter. We follow the typefac...
By Ilse Brandt
Genre Histories
From a former military church in Göppingen to the 013 in Tilburg and a field outside Siegen, the doom metal festivals gave a slow music its fixed addresses. This is the history of Roadburn,...
By Ilse Brandt
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
How Black Metal Vocals Got That Shape
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
Why Death Metal Became So Extreme
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
Gary Holt: the riff engine of Exodus, and the man who filled Hanneman's place
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Soulers | Watching the Whole Tragedy with Bated Breath | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Lacrimas Profundere | Lay Me Down O Silent Fear | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Metalite | Discovery | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Stryper | Throne of Thorns | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Godflesh | Decay | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | The Ocean | Solaris | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Nokturnal Mortum | Біль | Hurt | EP |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Aborym | Metachaos | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Night Laser | Rats in the Cradle | Full-length |
