Song
What Only Worms Witness
Artist
Reeking Aura
Reeking Aura backstory
Blood & Bonemeal, Reeking Aura’s debut, was one of 2022’s surprise p... Read More...
Song
Law Unto Myself
Artist
Desert Storm
Desert Storm backstory
Oxford’s dreaming spires of aren’t usually associated with sludge metal. But ove... Read More...
Song
Cryogenically Frozen
Artist
Cryptic Shift
Cryptic Shift backstory
For more than a decade, Leeds’ Cryptic Shift have been entrancing the UK ... Read More...
Bizarrekult - Alt Som Finnes (Season of Mist)
“It’s in our dreams that we can finally relax from everything that happens during the daytime”, says Bizarreku... Read More...
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Heroes of a Hundred Fields
Artist
Winterfylleth
Winterfylleth backstory
Winterfylleth have held UK black metal’s banner aloft for two decad... Read More...
From Finland to Philly, the underground erupted with venomous riffs last year, as a host of killer acts opened the doors to hell.
So strap on that bulletbel... Read More...
Song
Hunderprest
Artist
Hellripper
Hellripper backstory
Hellripper are one of the UK’s best DIY success stories. Initially the studio project of... Read More...
Comic horror straight from the void.
Tales of long-forgotten battlefields.
And reflections of a world tearing itself apart.
The best black metal album... Read More...
From progressive epics to Southern jams, thrash slammers to doom odysseys, this year delivered a host of awe-inspiring records. Jaws hit the floor as legends r... Read More...
Carcass. Bolt Thrower. Entombed. Atheist. None of them featured in our Best Death Metal Albums of 2025 round-up, but their legacies certainly did…
Death met... Read More...
Rich is a veteran of the heavy music scene and is widely considered one of the leading experts on doom, death and everything extreme. Rushonrock's deputy editor fulfilled the same role for HRH Mag and continues to forge a reputation as one of the UK's most informed and incisive metal writers.
