9 Extreme Metal Albums You’ll Need In 2016

Attention: there are some very loud albums we’d like to draw your attention to…

January 7, 2016

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Album review: Electric Wizard – Black Magic Rituals & Perversions Vol. 1

Apocalypse now! British doom legends Electric Wizard provide the soundtrack to the end of the world on self-recorded, direct-to-tape live ritual.

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Electric Wizard announce live jam-room album, Black Magic Rituals And Perversions Vol. 1

“It’s like a lost ’70s black metal demo rehearsal session,” say the Dorset doom titans of the straight-to-tape recording captured in their crypt.

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The big review: ArcTanGent 2024

ArcTanGent brings home the bacon with a stellar 10th edition, as Mogwai, Meshuggah, Electric Wizard and more deliver the more unusual side of music to Bristol’s Fernhill Farm.

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Green Lung’s Tom Templar: The 10 songs that changed my life

Green Lung frontman Tom Templar talks us through his life via ’60s pop, doom, and how Manowar “make me feel like I’m holding a giant sword…”

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“It’s going to be biblical!”: ArcTanGent announce Mogwai, Electric Wizard, Explosions In The Sky and loads more

This year’s ArcTanGent is shaping up to be one of the biggest ever, with Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Electric Wizard, Ihsahn and loads more signing up for the festival’s 10th edition.

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The big review: Damnation Festival 2023

From Enslaved to Electric Wizard, Unearth to Undeath, Damnation Festival 2023 unequivocally underlined its status as the destination for all things extreme at the tail end of the European festival season. As always, we were there for every brilliantly gnarly body blow across a truly wild weekend...

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Damnation Festival announce two special Katatonia sets

Dead End Kings in full and a greatest hits set from the Swedish gloom metal icons? Yes, please…

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Book review: Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard

Dan Franklin takes you on a wild trip through the world of one of the UK’s most important and mysterious bands, Dorset doomers Electric Wizard…

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Album review: Electric Wizard – Black Magic Rituals & Perversions Vol. 1

Electric Wizard announce live jam-room album, Black Magic Rituals And Perversions Vol. 1

The big review: ArcTanGent 2024

Green Lung’s Tom Templar: The 10 songs that changed my life

“It’s going to be biblical!”: ArcTanGent announce Mogwai, Electric Wizard, Explosions In The Sky and loads more

The big review: Damnation Festival 2023

Damnation Festival announce two special Katatonia sets

Book review: Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard

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