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From Taffy Brodesser-Akner's new novel to Anna Marie Tendler's memoir, here are the best books to read in summer 2024.

The If I Survive You author on the suspense of the Booker ceremony, Americans’ warped view of the Caribbean, and writing his next novel on the road

On their debut Australian run, Zeal & Ardor dished out some wickedly good fruit of blistering, bluesy black metal.

Avant-metallers invite Beelzebub into a deconsecrated church

AN avant-garde band which uniquely mixes sounds of African-American spirituals with black metal will perform at a historic entertainment venue this…

Glastonbury has embraced metal in a big way in recent years. Metallica's 2014 headline slot felt like a real watershed moment in the festival finally opening up to heavier acts on a regular basis and, sure enough, in the years since we've seen a ton of hard rock and heavy metal bands play Worthy Farm's hallowed turf.From 2015-2019 we've witnessed everyone from Motörhead and Bring Me The Horizon to Napalm Death, Entombed A.D., Gojira, Babymetal, Venom ...

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‘Black metal meets black spiritual music.’ Bottle it, flog it for all it’s worth. When Zeal & Ardor’s debut, Devil Is Fine, slithered into 2017’s end-of-year lists, we’d heard nothing like it: centuries-old slave chants blasphemed by black metal tremolo, bubbling electronica, dusty blues, Gothenburg melodies, and baroque Nick Cave-iness. Coining the idea of African American slaves praising Satan rather than God, Zeal &...

Given the sheer number of massive releases over the past two years, you'd be forgiven for thinking we're due a fallow year at some point. That may be so, but it certainly isn't going to be 2022 - the list of albums with confirmed release dates already reads like a primer for the AOTY, with the likes of Venom Prison, Zeal & Ardor, Sabaton, Rolo Tomassi, Devin Townsend and Crowbar all just in the next few weeks. That's before we even start talki...