Reports from the Underground
Sam’s Top Ten Albums of 2024!
How many synonyms for “emotional” and “atmospheric” do you need?
Album Reviews
Missed Album Review: Teramaze – Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace
“Get your ticket for a one of a kind / A performer that’ll blow your mind”
Album Reviews
Missed Album Review: Amiensus – Reclamation Pt. II
Waiter, waiter! Can I have some more riffs with my coffee? I SAID MORE RIFFS, MOOOORE!!!
Album Reviews
Review: Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Who needs vocal melodies when you can just talk intently about surrealism and the occult?
Album Reviews
Review: Black Sites – The Promised Land?
My editors always tell me to lure readers into reading our reviews with a witty sentence—WAIT I’M AN EDITOR TOO? FUCK!
…Anyway, this is some pretty kick-ass proggy heavy metal!
Album Reviews
Review: Avneya – Road to I
Israel’s in the news again? That can only mean one thing: a new prog release!
Album Reviews
Review: The Aphelion – Nascence
Haydon may not play Darth Vader this time, but that doesn’t stop him from embracing the dark side
Album Reviews
Review: The Radicant – We Ascend
The Anathema frontman is back with a new EP, now more ethereal than ever
Interviews
Interview: Papangu
We sit down with Papangu to talk about Brazilian music, their upcoming album and a certain mythological figure who inspired it, and more!