Through the Glass
Taking the Devil’s Part: Venom, Cronos, and the Language of Black Metal
Black Sabbath ran from the Devil. Cronos wanted to be him. On the Venom frontman, who died on October 1 at 63, and the genre his band named but could...
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The Yorkshire Gothic: Paradise Lost’s Gothic at Thirty-Five
Paradise Lost's Gothic turned 35 in 2026. The anniversary edition clarifies its documented origins in death-doom, Sisters of Mercy, Celtic Frost, Ken Russell, and Gothic literature and architecture. West Yorkshire...
Latest Additions
Playlist Update 7.11.2025: Evoken; Toilet Snake; Coltsblood
Latest Additions
Playlist Update: Lights of Vimana; Pilgrimage; A Dream of Poe
Review
Review: Paradise Lost – Ascension (2025)
Paradise Lost’s seventeenth album arrives as their most commanding release since Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us. It does not attempt reinvention, but it draws together every strand of the...
Review
The Sound of Gray: Revisiting Warning – Watching from a Distance (2006)
Twenty years after Watching from a Distance, Warning have finally made another album. Patrick Walker's own account complicates the mythology around the 2006 record: it was written under deadline, built...
Latest Additions
Playlist Update: Nomadic Rituals; Sun of the Dying; Pale Keeper
Special Features
After the Sabbath: Introduction
What was it about Black Sabbath that made them one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century? What caused a strange blues-rock band from the late ’60s...
Special Features
After the Sabbath: Experiment and Fracture (1973–75) | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage
This time I’ll start with a question. I genuinely don’t understand why so many Sabbath fans seem to believe that the Ozzy era ended after their fourth album. That view...
Special Features
After the Sabbath: The Disintegration (1976–78) | Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die!
Technical Ecstasy came out in 1976, during a time when tensions between Ozzy and the rest of the band were reaching a breaking point. It ended with his not-so-final departure...
Special Features
After the Sabbath: The Door Opens (1970) | Self-titled and Paranoid
A twist of fate and a newspaper ad brought together four young men from a nowhere suburb near Birmingham in the late ’60s. Four unemployed outsiders, broke and strung out,...