How important is the ETERNAL WARFARE Fest to the PNW? It means so much to the underground that it’s hard to put into words! This year we made the journey down to Portland for this historic fest and found it full of blackened sonic love. Every band that performed suffocated

I fucking love the Bay Area. There is a truly amazing amount of artists that live out here. For the music that I am interested in the most, this area is the best in the world. There is some great scenes scattered around the globe, but within this particular area

Alright, I’m still recovering from Bloodshed festival over the weekend of 14 and 15 September in Eindhoven’s Effenaar. Calling the festival’s line-up rich is an understatement which doesn’t only apply to the main festival days of Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th, but Thursday’s pre-party and Sunday’s Afterbleeder bands

On June 28th, the post Covenant Fest show that featured Superstition/ Mortiferum / Spectral Voice / Temple of Abandonment was BEYOND AMAZING!!! Everyone who came out left feeling like they had just witnessed something very special – which they did! Our comrade Taylor Ferguson was on hand to capture this sick night

One of the sickest tours so far this year was the PRIMITIVE MAN & SPECTRAL VOICE East Coast run that just took place! If you don’t believe me, check out this devastating, suffocating footage of both bands killing shit at the Meatlocker, captured by unARTigNYC. So here is some good news

NINE – ZIGGURAT Ritual Miasma It’s quite refreshing to hear black metal bands with an approach as robust as Ziggurat’s. In their five track debut, this Israeli duo has crafted a work that almost seems an affront to anything that is black metal dujour. While the lofi, raw and to