Will Marshall, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

EP REVIEW: Dark Spectrum – Antre

English black metal has, over the years, undergone something of an evolution. Initially conjuring thoughts of the atmospherics and ‘English

For all its challenges, 2020 has been a truly banner year for rock and metal, with a multitude of bands

It’s taken the four years since their formation in 2016 for Finnish heavy metal upstarts CHALICE to deliver their debut

Four years on from Cast Away Souls, Californian doom outfit CARDINAL WYRM are set to self-release their fourth album Devotionals.

After their debut Evil Upheaval did everything it promised (and more), Aussie death metallers DEPRAVITY set expectations sky-high for its

Norwegian doom metallers GODSEND originally formed back in the mists of time of 1991 in Norway and their debut flew

Just a few short months since they released the rather excellent The Ghost of Orion, the masters of all things

Hailing from the ‘Rock City’ Detroit itself, WHITE MAGICIAN set out to revive the classic 70s hard rock and metal

A global pandemic forcing everyone to stay mostly indoors has meant a great deal of soul-searching about what it means

What happens if you blend shoegaze, post-metal, ethereal singing and ambient textures? Well, you get something similar to Australia’s EMPRESS