Now Hear This: Alex Baker on the best new black metal, punk and metalcore
Not gonna lie to you, mates, I am absolutely fucking exhausted at the moment. We’ve recently welcomed Baby Number Two into the Baker household, and there’s not enough coffee and metalcore in the universe to keep me awake! Even Parkway’s Boneyards isn’t energising me at the moment, and that’s my go-to life bringer. Still, there’s something quite comforting about being awake at 3am, headphones in, listening to black metal as the world sleeps (apart from my baby). Talking of which…. Dawn Ray'd From the north of the UK comes an anti-facist black metal band who, like so many great black metal bands, manage to create a sound that is simultaneously luscious and blisteringly heavy. Their latest album Behold Sedition Plainsong is by no means brand new, but the lyrical cont...
