The Oldest Trick: The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin's 1973 film, adapted from William Peter Blatty's novel, takes that logic and dismantles it. The Exorcist is a film about a demon who operates through misdirection, feeding medicine,...
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William Friedkin's 1973 film, adapted from William Peter Blatty's novel, takes that logic and dismantles it. The Exorcist is a film about a demon who operates through misdirection, feeding medicine,...
Named after Bir Tawil, Xavier Godart’s solo project has spent more than a decade treating isolation as a working method. On Dua Min, live performance and a tighter electronic framework...
Photo: MarVey Fotos/ Markus Veyhle
Mirror of Deception's sixth album Transience moves between the Demeter's ship log, a dolphin skull found in southern Chile, and Bronze Age violence in the Tollense Valley. Jochen Fopp and...
Mauna Sol. Photo: self
Romania's Mauna Sol on "A New Life" and the secular desert at the heart of The Calling.
Sisyphean's third album funnels Camus, a medieval emperor's epithet, and the psychology of manipulation into 42 minutes of dissonant black/death metal from Vilnius. Produced at Poland's Hertz Studio, Divergence is...
On Blessings and Curses, Noise builds Non Est Deus around prayers and biblical citations rather than generic anti-religious provocation. The fifth album is strongest when scripture and criticism remain in...
Drummer Simon on studios, influences, and the particular weight of building something heavy in a city that has never asked for it.
Paul Wegener's Der Golem does not adapt Gustav Meyrink's novel. It reworks the older Prague legend into a story of persecution, protection, and delegated power, while Hans Poelzig and Marlene...
Athens band Catapult The Sun arrive at their first full-length with a record built from copper engravings, biblical quotation, Greek myth, and live feedback. Guitarist and composer Panagiotis explains how...
Twenty-three years into one of extreme metal's most uncompromising discographies, The Ruins of Beverast deliver Tempelschlaf: seven tracks of blackened doom that move closer to the live stage than anything...
Demetra Cartsos is fifteen years old. She fronts a band, writes the songs, manages the bookings, runs the social media, attends regular school and music school in the same week,...
Doom Cinema exists because certain films and certain music share the same blood. They were built in different rooms, by different hands, but they arrive at the same place: enclosed...