Metal for Halloween!
Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...
Top Metal EPs of 2020 (So Far)
The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...
Hexenbrett’s Happy Haunting
Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...
Malokarpatan: Slovakian Witchery
You find yourself in a cabin in a forgotten wood, and the grizzled wanderer across the fire tells stories about the dense, hushed forest outside your warm sanctuary. Through his bawdy, gruff guise, the strange...
Sunbathing in the sound of Deafheaven
A drawn-out scream collides with a new crescendo, elevating you to a state susceptible to the pounding drums, giving you a new pulse that follows the rhythmic guitar. Behind you, bodies clash. Each shoulder-to...
On dangerous paths: an introduction to dungeon synth
A hush settles over the plains as a cold moon rises, casting long shadows as you notice the ruins in the distance. Your bones ache from the day’s tribulations, and your heart skips a beat at the thought of a ...