Australia's Empress blur the lines of many musical genres, from indie to shoegaze, from post-rock to metal - so perhaps the best way to describe their music is with adjectives like immersive, screeching, soothing, haunting, and delicately massive. What they do specialise in is dark theatrical melody, underlying menace, emotional and ethereal vocals, some fantastic..

Ruff Majik – The Devil’s Cattle (Mongrel Records)
Ruff Majik are an abrasive but humorous, stoner-rock band formed in South Africa in 2012, originally featuring the talents of guitarist/vocalist Johni Holiday, bassist Jimmy Glass and drummer Ben Manchino, but now augmented by guitarist Cowboy Van and guitarist/keyboard player (and long-time friend and producer) Evert Snyman. Their early work was pretty heavy, basic, stoner..

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION BOOKS, WITH EXCLUSIVE OFFER (Wymer Publishing)
You know those deluxe sets we’re all becoming familiar with nowadays, as landmark albums or bands are celebrated by means of a huge box full of CDs, DVDs, books, posters, vinyl, all sorts of treasures essentially? Well courtesy of Wymer Publishing, what we have here is the equivalent to that audio concept but instead via..

Ozzy debuts new single Under The Graveyard, new album Ordinary Man on the way
Today, legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne shares his first new solo music since 2010’s album Scream. The single Under The Graveyard comes off a whole brand new album, called Ordinary Man, which will be released early in 2020 through Sony Music Entertainment. “It all started when Kelly comes in and says ‘do you want..