22.05.2026
Albums
Dimmu Borgir
Grand Serpent Rising
It's hard to believe it’s been 8 years since Dimmu Borgir’s last album, Eonian. That’s partly because of the alarming acceleration of linear time that we experience with age, and partly because we’re still listening to it regularly. In our mind, it remains fresh, new, and peerless. So impressed were we that, back in 2018, it was one of our albums of the year. Back then, we gushed about “an ornately gothic, macabre collecti...
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11.02.2026
Albums
The Hellacopters
Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3
It seems incongruous to be writing about the Hellacopters 30th anniversary when we still see them as the side project of Entombed drummer, Nicke Andersson. He left the Swedish death metal band in '98 to focus full time on the Hellacopters, and although he has since rejoined Entombed, it seems unlikely they will have another purple patch to match their incredible run of albums from Lef...
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21.01.2026
Albums
Paper Kites
If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
By Captain Stavros
Golden Tones and Quiet Certainty
After 15 years of quiet consistency, Australia’s The Paper Kites have become something of an emotional utility band. Their seventh studio album, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, doesn’t attempt to reinvent that role — and that’s very much the point.
From the opening moments, the record is steeped in the band’s trademark golden tones, the same sun-blea...
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