Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan
Polish trio kIRk create a post-industrial, improvisation-based "soundtrack for sleepwalking, hypnotism, undeath, and all liminal states of consciousness". They meet Pavel Godfrey to discuss last album Zła Krew, losing all their equipment and the evolution of the Polish music scene
On the release of a new Uniform single and video for 'Permanent Embrace', Michael Berdan writes about the harsh realities of bulimia nervosa. CW: some readers may find this article disturbing. Band portrait by Joshua Zucker-Pluda & Sean Stout