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Hordes X Lineup 2026 Complete The full list of bands appearing at this year’s Hordes X festival has just gone live – and it’s a grizzly grassroots monster! Sadly, through unavoidable circumstances, Northern Ireland’s Owlcrusher will no longer be joining us for the 16th Hordes. We are however, bringing 7…
Feeding Frenzy: Kulk – Choosing To Die Kulk – Choosing To Die Release: 28 August 2026||Genre: Doom, Sludge, Noise Rock, Psych||Label: Church Road Records Grief, love and human fragility – proving that vulnerability can be as heavy as any riff. With Choosing to Die, Norwich doom duo Kulk…
Hordes X 2026 The Beast in the East, Scotland’s oldest metal fest, Hordes X, is back for its SIXTEENTH edition!!! Featuring two days of stacked extreme metal and old school bands (plus some curveballs), the influential live platform returns to the twin venues of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee,…
Feeding Frenzy: OvO – Gemma OvO – Gemma Release Date: 03rd October 2025||Genre: Electronic / Industiral|| Label: Artoffact Records An ethnomusicological lesson in just getting it right. Italian iconoclasts OvO have just dropped their eleventh studio album, Gemma, via Artoffact Records, marking an unforgettable twenty-five years in action….
Out Today: Haint – Screaming At The Storm Today, Belfast’s Haint release new single, Screaming At The Storm, with their debut EP, Terminally Evolved, on the horizon. Only the fourth track of bitter yet beautiful metal from the trio, they have called it “a diatribe of determination and resolve in…
Forked Tongues: Marc Urselli SteppenDoom Late in 2022, producer, Marc Urselli released SteppenDoom; an album which brings together thoat singing and doom metal… These may seem like strange bedfellows to some, but believe us, it works. Purposely designed to appeal to the sense of freedom inherent in both metal and…
1782 – From The Graveyard (album) Release date: 26th March 2021||Genre: Occult doom||Label: Heavy Psych Sounds The cover art of 1782‘s second album kinda gives the game away. From the first track proper – The Chosen One – a wall of darkly psychedelic fuzz hits the listener, dropping them feet…
Dragon Fire: Heilung, Skálmöld, and more – 20||09||20 With their second live album emerging over the horizon, Icelandic legends, Skálmöld, have released the third video for its promotion. Árás is one of the first tracks the band ever wrote. It harks right back to their debut record. The full album,…
2020; The year that keeps on giving. Most recently, it gave Slow Dragon Music a catastrophic website failure, which was a delight only suitable to this current solar cycle! The dragon is a patient creature, though, and now, slowly, re-emerges from this unexpected torpor… The site basics are still the…
