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Five years between records. The orchestral density stripped away. A producer — Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Sóls...
07/03/2026

Five years between records. The orchestral density stripped away. A producer — Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Sólstafir) — chosen for his instinct for negative space. Moonspell's thirteenth studio album, Far From God, didn't arrive in a hurry, and it doesn't sound like it did. What it sounds like is a band who remembered exactly who they are — and committed to it fully.
Read our full review at antiheromagazine.com

Five years is a long time to be silent — particularly for a band that spent much of the previous decade releasing records in rapid succession. But Far

🪦 REVIEW: TodoMal – Graveyards of Joy (Season of Mist)TodoMal recorded their trilogy-closing third album in a crumbling ...
06/25/2026

🪦 REVIEW: TodoMal – Graveyards of Joy (Season of Mist)

TodoMal recorded their trilogy-closing third album in a crumbling stone house in the depopulated interior of Eastern Spain — and you can hear that landscape in every arrangement. Graveyards of Joy is a record about grief that refuses to wallow in it. Over nine tracks, Chris Wildman and Javier Fernández Milla transmute the loss of three next of kin across three albums into something quietly Epicurean: gratitude located inside ruin, not despite it.

The expanded live lineup — including guitarist Javier Félez (Teitanblood, Graveyard) and vocalist/keyboardist Cecilia Tallo — adds genuine weight. Tallo's dual-vocal contributions shape the whole record, and the Hammond-driven passages and Manu Clavijo's strings open space rather than fill it.

"Deliverance" is TodoMal at their absolute finest — seven and a half minutes that map grief onto geography, building from acoustic arpeggios into orchestral terrain without losing an ounce of identity.

This is the argument's conclusion, and it holds. Read the full review at Antihero Magazine. 🔗

There is a painting on the cover of Graveyards of Joy — Ruïnes (1865) by Catalan artist Lluís Rigalt that tells you nearly everything you need to know

Our Download 2026 festival review is live. Howard Keogh was on the ground at Donington across all three days — from Cava...
06/25/2026

Our Download 2026 festival review is live. Howard Keogh was on the ground at Donington across all three days — from Cavalera's tribal thrash in the Dogtooth tent to Linkin Park making history as the first female-fronted act to headline the festival. Limp Bizkit delivered a delirious, self-aware spectacle that silenced every critic. Architects stopped the show twice for crowd safety. Tom Morello turned a field into an anti-fascist earthquake. Blood Incantation built a cosmos out of death metal and Hawkwind dust. And somewhere in between all of that, Ginger from The Wildhearts reminded us why we're all here in the first place.

Three days. Countless circle pits. One unforgettable weekend.

Read the full review at the link below — pictures by Enda Madden.

Download XXIII Festival (2026) – Review by Howard Keogh Photos by Enda Madden Download Festival is still evolving. This year's lineup brings together a

Fires in the Distance don't repeat themselves on Circadian Promise — they excavate deeper. The Connecticut melodeath out...
06/09/2026

Fires in the Distance don't repeat themselves on Circadian Promise — they excavate deeper. The Connecticut melodeath outfit's third album pulls back the synth-driven sound that made Air Not Meant For Us so immediately compelling and replaces it with something harder-won: denser doom influence, more expressive lead guitarwork, and a compositional patience that rewards repeated listens. Returning producer Dave Kaminsky tracked bass and drums live together, and the organic warmth that decision produces sets this record apart from virtually everything else in the modern melodeath landscape. It's bleak, assured, and quietly devastating. Full review at the link.

There is a category of album that announces itself not through force but through gravity - records that don't demand your attention so much as quietly

Two fires, different woods.UADA and Blackbraid have done more than any other American acts to answer black metal's oldes...
06/09/2026

Two fires, different woods.

UADA and Blackbraid have done more than any other American acts to answer black metal's oldest dismissal - that the music can't mean anything without the soil it grew from. But they've answered it in completely opposite ways.

UADA dissolves the self into archetype, reaching past geography toward something universal. Blackbraid descends into the specific — the Adirondack wilderness, the histories soaked into that land - and trusts that specificity is its own form of universality.

Our new long-form feature explores what those two paths tell us about where American black metal goes from here.

Black metal has always been a music of place. Its most canonical recordings carry geography in their DNA - the frozen Oslo suburbs in Burzum's static

Nuclear Tomb's Epoch Inhumane is one of the most intentional underground metal records of the year — ten tracks of disso...
06/07/2026

Nuclear Tomb's Epoch Inhumane is one of the most intentional underground metal records of the year — ten tracks of dissonant, tempo-shifting progressive thrash that absorbs the lineage of Voivod, Coroner, and Atheist without sounding indebted to any of them. The Baltimore quartet are at the top of their game, and it shows in every compulsive riff change and colossal rhythm section hit. Read the full review at antiheromagazine.com.

There's a strain of thrash that has always been more interested in the wrong chord than the right riff, more invested in structural disorientation than

Khemmis have done something rare on their self-titled fifth album: framed heavy metal itself as sacred ritual — and then...
06/04/2026

Khemmis have done something rare on their self-titled fifth album: framed heavy metal itself as sacred ritual — and then made a record worthy of the ceremony. From the occult self-offering of "Invocation of the Dreamer" to the psychological weight of "Beneath the Scythe," Khemmis is the band's most focused and emotionally complete work to date. Eight tightly sequenced tracks. Eleven years of craft. One defining statement.

Our full review is live now at antiheromagazine.com.

Khemmis | Nuclear Blast Records | June 12, 2026 | 9/10

There is an argument to be made that choosing to self-title your fifth album is an act of either supreme confidence or delusion, with very little room

Chuck Billy has spent 40 years as one of metal's most powerful voices — but he's never told his story like this.In our e...
06/03/2026

Chuck Billy has spent 40 years as one of metal's most powerful voices — but he's never told his story like this.
In our exclusive interview, the Testament frontman opens up about his unflinching new memoir, Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy — the early chaos of Bay Area thrash, the cancer diagnosis that nearly took everything, and the spiritual journey that brought him back.
This is a rare, candid conversation with a metal legend who has earned every scar and every word.
🤘 Read the full interview at antiheromagazine.com
🎙️ Holding My Breath publishes November 10, 2026 — pre-order at chuckbillybook.com

He screamed his way into metal history. Then cancer tried to silence him for good. Chuck Billy — the iconic frontman of Bay Area thrash legends Testament

Hecate Enthroned return after seven years with The Co**se of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried — a dense, deliberate symphon...
05/26/2026

Hecate Enthroned return after seven years with The Co**se of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried — a dense, deliberate symphonic black metal record rooted in Welsh mythology and ancient grief. It asks for patience. It earns it. Our full review is live now at Antihero Magazine.

Seven years is a long time to go quiet. For a band with Hecate Enthroned's lineage — architects of the orchestral British black metal movement, a group

REVIEW: Monolord – NeverendingThirteen years into building one of stoner/doom's most recognizable sounds, Monolord could...
05/25/2026

REVIEW: Monolord – Neverending

Thirteen years into building one of stoner/doom's most recognizable sounds, Monolord could have coasted. Instead, Neverending — recorded with producer Sylvia Massy (Tool, System of a Down, Johnny Cash) — is their most precise and nakedly personal record yet.

The low-end mass is still there. But Massy has made silence a weapon, and the result breathes differently than anything in their catalog. Opener "Iodine" withholds its full weight longer than the band typically allows, and the patience pays off. Lead single "You Bastard" pairs a propulsive groove with some of the most direct lyrical territory Jäger has ever touched. Closer "It's Neverending" brings in Jörgen Sandström (Entombed) — and his voice against Monolord's grinding doom produces something genuinely unsettling.

At eight tracks and under 45 minutes, this is the most concise argument the Gothenburg trio has ever made for themselves.

The riff isn't the point — the mood it leaves behind is. Monolord still know that better than almost anyone.

📖 Full review at the link.

There is a particular trap waiting for any doom band that achieves institutional status: the slow calcification of a sound into a brand. Monolord have

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