On November 23 Sentient Ruin will release Sermons, the haunting debut album from Italian dark ambient/death industrial demon CLAVICVLA, and today we’re stoked to bring you the first exclusive full listen of this otherworldly piece of soul-disintegrating aural terror. Clavicvla (key in latin) is the brainchild of sole mastermind Ittiel, a

I won’t out the media outlet I came across that, merely a week into our eleventh month, foolishly teased their “Best Of 2018” list. As I write this, we’re a week away from an album set to drop that will render the over-eager lists null and void in grand, bleak

Mad, Insane and totally Fucked in the Head is how you are going to feel after just one listen to the new project by Wayne Adams and Iggor Cavalera called PETBRICK. You can not describe their music in terms of genre because they are on some next level futuristic soundscapes

Hissing hail from Seattle Washington and create a frenzied concoction of noise, death, and black metal. Permanent Destitution is the bands first full length, debuting on Profound Lore records. I have to admit that coming into this review I was quite intimidated. Hissing have an extremely complex sound, one of

Bliss Signal is a bridge between different worlds. James Kelly aka WIFE (also known from Altar of Plagues) and Jack Adams aka Mumdance collaborate in order to bring to life this connection between the black metal and electronic music realms. The result is equally impressive and disturbing as the duo unleashes

Text and Photos: Bobby Cochran The flat, windswept grounds of Salt Lake City’s Utah State Fairpark hosted an eclectic and diverse two-day music festival, CrucialFest, boasting an impressive collection of well known names in heavy music, plus a plethora of local and regional bands spanning genres from Hip Hop to