The ninth album by Swedish Prog-faced hairy metallers Opeth was described as “Avant-garde” by frontman Michael Akerfeldt. He couldn’t be more correct. The biggest question is how does a band top an album which pretty much everyone agreed was perfect? 2005′s “Ghost Reveries” was the perfect combination of beauty and brutality, so beautality or brutiful [...]

Ok, So Tonight we have Fandangle bringing their ska stylings to the Crown in Middlesbrough before headining off on the rest of their tour. And despite the cancelation of this months Flaming Ace we have quite a bit coming on the Saturday. The April half of the Whitby Goth Weekend has come around and will [...]

From opening number machine gun Deathboy are confusingly different from their recorded music, with a distinctly rockier sound as a three piece than the very solid blended industrial sound of their existing tracks. I suppose it is a hard sound to translate but further into the set Deathboy sound becomes more recognizable with the able [...]

Keeping one’s peepers on the internet has provided some new cool information Necromag wishes to share with it’s lovely readers. Firstly, Maynard James Keenan’s side-project Puscifer has released a video for it’s second single “DoZo.” The track contains input from ambient supremo Lustmord, and can be viewed here. It contains a longer intro than was [...]

This weekend Necromag is stretching its legs and rolling all the way down to Sheffield to see ms Emilie Autumn Perform at the Corporation. While there is coverage to come, and a belated review of the Deathboy gig on the 5th to transcribe, you can expect big things to come from Necromag in the coming [...]

The common response most people received over the last couple of days who signed the online Downing Street petition to widen the definition of Hate Crime to accommodate crimes against a person based on their appearance or subcultural interests was………. You have signed an e-petition suggesting that the definition of ‘hate crime’ be widened to [...]

It is an all too common occurance that people who dress different, look different and act different to the ways prescribed from birth by society’s “norms” are treated with contempt, abuse and insult. How about put on Death Row? For the last almost two decades three men, youthes at the time, have been incarcerated in [...]

Necromag likes to share it’s personal musical quirks and nuances with you on a regular basis, and this is a mini profile of dark ambient music pioneer Lustmord. If you’re a Tool fan you will have probably heard Lustmord on their last CD “10,000 Days”, providing the sound effects of rain and thunder on the [...]