The Blue Nile struggled for years to create the definitive version of themselves; 1989's "Hats" is the result of their ...

Producers Saint Abdullah & Eomac disrupt the concept of every border through hip hop and electronica on When The Sandbox Has No Edge. I’m going to open this by taking issue with the common definition ...

Warmly welcome our newest Weekly Featured Artist, the Italian avant-garde post-rock stalwarts Threestepstotheocean!

Around the time of me starting on the newest edition of THE NOISE OF, there is a crazy heat wave pummeling through Europe. Luckily, I’m on vacation on the coast of Northern Holland, so me melting down ...

This week our featured artist needs no introduction. Since the early aughts the heavy music collective Thou has been one of the most prolific and consistent bands around. Factoring in demos, EPs, ...

Blades clash and spells are cast across the symphonic black metal battlefield on Stormkeep‘s The Nocturnes of Iswylm.

A little more than six years ago, Everything Is Noise was born from the ashes of It Djents, a drastic change in name and image that effectively served to sever our ties with the then-diminishing ...

Complexity, both melodic and rhythmic, has been a fundamental aspect of metal since the genre’s inception. Whether it was Bill Ward’s jazzy approach to drumming on Black Sabbath‘s material (R.I.P.

MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS have been part of my casual listens for quite a while now. This is especially true for their tremendous 2018 full-length No New World, an album that hooks you with its ...

In this dim year’s turning when frost grips the land, and nations speak in thunder that none may understand, the streets are thick with rumors and dread on every face. Hope walks hooded and slow ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: hip hop is not my field of expertise, and thus I don’t feel like it’s my story to tell – if that makes sense. Instead, I prefer to let others do the talking, ...

The weather is picking up at this side of the hemisphere, you spend more time outside, and we all need a soundtrack for that. After the overwhelming amount of outstanding records we received in March, ...