Jack Chuter

Place this release alongside earlier Skullflower works such as “Last Shot at Heaven” (put out seventeen years before) and it really puts it in perspective how the project has developed. Certain elements have remained – the discordant whistle of guitar drones, the bleak, black atmosphere – but somewhere along the line the

“SWANS ARE NOT DEAD”. This is what was displayed on the Swans’ official myspace page last month. What an exciting little announcement it was. Better still was the further news that a new album was in the works, and that frontman Michael Gira was to release I Am Not Insane

The Invisible City feels like a dynamic, fully-functioning landscape. It’s only at the end of the album that you finally comprehend the city as a whole – the vibe of its various caverns and open spaces, the mechanized industrial routine that dominates its day-to-day. It’s a

Although I’ve never previously been let down by live performances by either Sunn O))) or Om, I knew that this gig presented a bit of a challenge for both. With their respective latest albums featuring an ambitious array of instruments and slight shift in compositional direction, how would each

David Tibet has been creating music under Current 93 for over 25 years. His music is overwhelmingly diverse and unpredictable, with his compelling lyrical imagery and vocal delivery the only real constant between each release. I spoke to David about his ideology, compositional approach and Current’s recent showing at

For the first 15-minutes or so, “Pyramids with Nadja” – a collaboration between two mammoth names in the whole “heavy shoegaze” movement – sounds as you might expect it to. It’s the infinitely expansive sound of the universe being swallowed whole. The melodies crackle out of Nadja’s trademark distortion