"...Revocation‘s “hit to miss” ratio over the course of their career has been strongly weighted more towards the former than the latter and the release of 'New Gods, New Masters' (@metalbladerecords.bsky.social) is absolutely going to continue that trend." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/17/r...

"...Revocation‘s “hit to miss” ratio over the course of their career has been strongly weighted more towards the former than the latter and the release of 'New Gods, New Masters' (@metalbladerecords.bsky.social) is absolutely going to continue that trend." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/17/r...

We're still reeling from today's tragic news, but hopefully some new music will be a balm, since: "...when the clouds begin to gather and the lightning starts to strike it’s difficult, if not impossible, to resist the call of this particular storm." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/16/k...

The passing of Tomas Lindberg is another huge blow to our scene. A true larger than life legend, whose instantly recognisable style was often imitated, but never bettered, he leaves behind a legacy of work that will live forever.

The passing of Tomas Lindberg is another huge blow to our scene. A true larger than life legend, whose instantly recognisable style was often imitated, but never bettered, he leaves behind a legacy of work that will live forever.

"Make no mistake… mature, confident, introspective, and viscerally powerful on both a musical and emotional level… this is as good a debut album as any you’re likely to hear this year." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/15/t...

Prepare for death, prepare for doom, prepare to... "Dissolve". www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/12/a...

"...an expertly rendered experience of affliction, madness, and despair... "Plague Ritual" certainly lives up to its name." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/11/a...

Some say that "true Black Metal is fuelled by ennui"... but on their inward-gazing new album, @derwegeinerfreiheit.de have taken a look deep inside themselves and then taken a step beyond the boundaries of the genre (and are all the better for it). www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/10/d...

"It might be smart for you to strap on body armor and a tough helmet before you press play on “Umbrage Earned,” the Plague Curse song we’re now premiering, because it’s a roaring blast front of weaponized sound." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/09/a...

Andy Synn kicks off another week here at NCS with three high-grade slabs of pure British beef courtesy of ADUR, CULT BURIAL, and TRUDGER. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/08/b...

Get your fix of albums you may (or may not) have missed last month courtesy of AMPHISBAENA, OLD MACHINES, SLOW CRUSH and VICTIM OF FIRE. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/04/t...

"The song is indeed a genre-bender - the anchor of black metal bleeding into gothic, dark wave, and death metal influences - and also definitely focused, cohesive, and memorable, as well as emotionally moving." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/03/a...

Recommended for fans of Comeback Kid, Shai Hulud, early Rise Against (and more)... Andy Synn does a deep-dive into the discography of modern Punk/Hardcore icons MODERN LIFE IS WAR (including their brand new album). www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/01/t...

"...powerful evidence of just how masterfully ANTIVERSUM have integrated elements of death, black, and doom metal to create chilling visions of dread and downfall." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/29/a...

“Crushing riffs, pulverizing d-beats, and an atmosphere so suffocatingly dark it feels like the world collapsing in real time. This is the soundtrack to disorder, decay, and the slow grind toward oblivion.” www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/28/a...

Andy Synn presents three more short-but-sweet morsels of crusty/metallic/blackened Hardcore from ANTI RITUAL, BACKSTABBED, and HARROWIST. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/26/s...

Andy Synn presents three more short-but-sweet morsels of crusty/metallic/blackened Hardcore from ANTI RITUAL, BACKSTABBED, and HARROWIST. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/26/s...

"...a breathtaking song, a technical death metal romp, but with twists and turns that aren’t common for the genre." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/25/a...

This is not a song about death—it’s about transcendence. Written in memory of our friend Rowan Oak, this track serves as a ritual offering, a sonic passage through the veil of the mundane toward something vast, endless and eternal. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/21/a...

Over the course of 12 rounds… ok, we’ll call them “songs”… the new album from Aussie Hardcore heavyweights Justice for the Damned continues to make a case for why they deserve a shot at the title. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/22/j...

This is not a song about death—it’s about transcendence. Written in memory of our friend Rowan Oak, this track serves as a ritual offering, a sonic passage through the veil of the mundane toward something vast, endless and eternal. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/21/a...

"Just as nasty, and just as strangely compelling, as ever... the band's new album both fulfils and defies your expectations in equal measure..." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/20/d...

"Just as nasty, and just as strangely compelling, as ever... the band's new album both fulfils and defies your expectations in equal measure..." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/20/d...

"A shamelessly infectious amalgam of blast-driven, hyper-melodic Black Metal and fret-melting, pulse-pounding Tech Death... [that] sits somewhere between the likes of Abigail Williams and Lightning Swords of Death on one hand and Gorod and Dååth on the other." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/18/r...

Come get your fix of British beef with the grungy, doomy Heavy Metal of KING WITCH, the unorthodox Black Metal of SEA MOSQUITO, and the punchy Prog Metal of TECHNOLOGIST courtesy of Andy Synn's latest article. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/14/b...

The song you’re about to hear draws from different wellsprings of death metal, creating a heady concoction that’s viciously demented, technically virtuosic, eerily unearthly, brutally bludgeoning, and as brilliantly glittering as the cover art. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/15/a...

Come get your fix of British beef with the grungy, doomy Heavy Metal of KING WITCH, the unorthodox Black Metal of SEA MOSQUITO, and the punchy Prog Metal of TECHNOLOGIST courtesy of Andy Synn's latest article. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/14/b...

"If you really want to get caught up by a song and carried away, even if the places it carries you are high points of both pain and fierce triumph, of both haunting confusion and blazing resistance, well you’ve come to the right place." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/12/a...

"The hooks on these songs are absolutely massive, putting the “Melodic” in “Death Metal” without sacrificing any of the genre’s underlying oomph... and should help ensure that this time around you won’t 'Leave The Flesh Behind'… behind." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/12/a...

"This is a work of devotion. A weapon of Will. Music as weapon. Music as curse. Music as rite." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/11/a...

"...one of the most lively Death Metal albums of the year, that serves as a very particular mememto mori, a reminder that if we’re all going to die we might as well go down banging our heads and throwing the horns…" www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/05/b...

Still trying to catch up on everything you missed last month? Well, our very own Andy Synn would like to help you by recommending the new ones from DEMONSMOKE, DOWNWARD, HAXPROCESS, and VIOGRESSION! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/04/t...

Recommended for fans of The Monolith Deathcult, Sigh, The Project Hate... and more... the 185th edition of The Synn Report is all about the Avant-Garde Death Metal weirdness of AZURE EMOTE! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/01/t...

Recommended for fans of The Monolith Deathcult, Sigh, The Project Hate... and more... the 185th edition of The Synn Report is all about the Avant-Garde Death Metal weirdness of AZURE EMOTE! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/08/01/t...

"...a genre-bending and time-traveling experience whose lyrics are drawn from classical pieces by Romantic era poets, presented unaltered and unabridged." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/31/a...

"It was only when I discovered that the album’s title refers to a proto-Germanic rune which represents “joy”, “harmony” and oneness with the self that the pieces finally fell into place… because FERAL LORD sound more at one with themselves than ever." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/30/f...

"It was only when I discovered that the album’s title refers to a proto-Germanic rune which represents “joy”, “harmony” and oneness with the self that the pieces finally fell into place… because FERAL LORD sound more at one with themselves than ever." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/30/f...

Imperialist open “Beneath the Sands of Titan” with the kind of blazing thrash riffage and engine-like pumping rhythms that will trigger muscle-jumping and neck-bending reflexes among most died-in-the-wool metalheads. And then they bring the demons out... www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/24/a...

"A uniquely esoteric and ritualistically hypnotic hybrid of “blackened” Doom and deathly gloom, equal parts primal and progressive, that will no doubt make its presence known on a number of “Best Of…” lists come the end of the year." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/28/a...

"A uniquely esoteric and ritualistically hypnotic hybrid of “blackened” Doom and deathly gloom, equal parts primal and progressive, that will no doubt make its presence known on a number of “Best Of…” lists come the end of the year." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/28/a...

Imperialist open “Beneath the Sands of Titan” with the kind of blazing thrash riffage and engine-like pumping rhythms that will trigger muscle-jumping and neck-bending reflexes among most died-in-the-wool metalheads. And then they bring the demons out... www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/24/a...

Andy Synn presents three mind-mangling morsels of Tech-Grind-Math-Metal madness courtesy of ABSOLUTISM, CAR BOMB, and NEFAS. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/23/s...

"The music is dense and layered but also stripped to bare wire and exposed edge... and as the musical pieces emerge, evolve, dissolve and fracture, the song’s moods also change." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/23/a...

"A crushing loss, the passing of a giant, but a time to be grateful as well..." Islander shares a few thoughts, and we welcome the comments of anyone else whose thoughts are on the Prince of Darkness today. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/22/r...

"The album is about a person who is seemingly colourblind, who takes psychedelic drugs as a last-ditch effort to see colour... [but] in reality, something else is happening. The writing is on the wall from the beginning to the bitter end." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/22/a...

"...even at its most variable and volatile (the dizzying dissonance and topsy-turvy tumult of “Psionic Battery”) or its most (semi) straightforward (the Wormed-influenced “Parasite Orb’s Lock”) there’s always a discernible method behind the madness." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/21/s...

"...proven performers with a lot of instrumental flare across a range of extreme genre styles... they demonstrate that flare, along with an intriguing sense of melody, in the song you’re about to hear." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/18/a...

"...proven performers with a lot of instrumental flare across a range of extreme genre styles... they demonstrate that flare, along with an intriguing sense of melody, in the song you’re about to hear." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/07/18/a...