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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for February Reviewed by Kez Whelan

From a visceral return to roots from Converge to Cryptic Shift’s epic new death metal space opera, Kez Whelan reviews his first batch of great new metal for 2026 

Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni

Hyperspecific: September And October’s Electronic Music

The latest round-up of the best new electronic music focuses on recent releases emerging from Copenhagen's techno scene

Jlin

Akoma

Collaborating with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet, the pioneering polymath from Gary, Indian, redefines ideas of genre and expands everyone’s musical horizons in the process

LISTEN: Stream New Four Tet Album

Morning/Evening on Bandcamp now, with physical release coming in July

Something Fun: Donna Candy Interviewed

Ahead of their set at Counterflows Festival, the Marseilles experimental rock trio Donna Candy speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their bludgeoning, eccentric debut album

Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release

Spatial, No Problem arrives almost five years on from the dub pioneer's death

Jenny Hval

Innocence Is Kinky

Another Planet: The Quietus’ Top 20 Favourite Cinema Memories

As the UK finally prepares to reopen its cinema doors, tQ contributors remember their most precious memories that could have only happened in front of the big screen

Spectacular Spectacular: On Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis

Baz Luhrmann returns to Cannes with a film about Elvis Presley, but it says much more about the filmmaker than the king of rock and roll, finds Ella Kemp

Dawn Of The Living Dead: Electric Wizard’s Dorset Roots

This June sees the publication of Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard by White Rabbit. Here, author and tQ writer Dan Franklin explains the genesis of the book and gives us a glimpse into the crepuscular Wimborne, the town in Dorset where 'The Wizard' first coagulated into a rural world of biker gangs and drugs...

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Was David Bowie's trilogy actually a quadrilogy; heck, was it actually a pentalogy; or, asks Jeremy Allen, is Berlin simply a state of mind?

A Love Like That: Vince & Andy Of Erasure On Vince & Andy Of Erasure

Ahead of their appearance at Roskilde this weekend and next year's mammoth UK tour, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell open up to Luke Turner about the history of the wonderful synth duo... and each other.

Diabolical Crackers: Trans Am’s Favourite Albums

With new LP Volume X just out, the Washington D.C. trio split the top albums rundown three ways and self-pen us their Baker's Dozen

Batting Order: Neil Hannon’s Favourite Albums

The Divine Comedy man picks out the gems in his record collection following the release of his second album with The Duckworth Lewis Method this week

Ride: Extra Tickets For Manchester & London

Limited tickets set to go on sale for Oxford band's gigs at the Albert Hall and Roundhouse this weekend; feature-length interview on site tomorrow