Jack Moar, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX is the longstanding project of multi-instrumentalist Justin Greaves, whose pedigree in heavy music is hard to understate.

ALBUM REVIEW: Utgard – Enslaved

While ENSLAVED are often counted among the progenitors of the second wave, they quickly distinguished themselves from others in the

What is there to be said about a band determined to remain an enigma? VOUS AUTRES, comprising multi-instrumentalist ₣ and

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF has had a truly inimitable career. Within the last decade she has released five studio albums, both solo

Cultivating success as an avant-garde act is no mean feat. Experimental and technical music resists reduction into an easily replicable

Necessity is the mother of all invention. As the venues and concert halls of the world stand empty and we

Wolves evolve. As the band enter their twenty-seventh year the Norwegians look back on a career which has been characterised

There are some things which improve with time: wine, certainly; leather boots, usually; bass strings, sometimes; but doom metal? Stygian

In spite of what purists might insist, black metal has always allied itself closely with electronic and synthesised music. As

BELL WITCH is among the foremost bands in the doom metal style, performing with the unconventional setup of bassist (Dylan