Pavel Godfrey

Columnus Metallicus: The Past Month In Heavy Metal

Friendly wyverns bring Pavel Godfrey tidings of late summer’s mightiest metal, from Akercocke and Serpent Column to Arckanum, Esoctrilihum and Sons of Crom.

Cyclopean Masonry: Steve Von Till Of Harvestman Interviewed

Steve Von Till follows the ley lines from bagpipes to Skullflower, from throat singing to Thin Lizzy, from megaliths to modernity, in conversation with Pavel Godfrey

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May By Pavel Godfrey

From the muddy banks of the Huron, our man in black stateside, brings us the best in pagan metal and more. Some images are NSFW

Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal By Pavel Godfrey

Pavel Godfrey is back rounding up Jan and Feb's best and most brutal metal from the likes of Immolation, Wiegedood and Horn

Columnus Metallicus: September’s Heavy Metal By Pavel Godfrey

Pavel Godfrey this month prays at the altar of all that is grim and pummelling and receives sublime answers in the likes of Darkthrone, Neurosis and Spire

Cosmic Pessimism: An Interview With Jute Gyte

Pavel Godfrey set out to talk to the black metal and electronic musician Adam Kalmbach about his recent album Perdurance and instead got round to covering philosophy, Nietzsche and honing an anti-Romantic world view

Columnus Metalicus: June’s Heavy Metal By Pavel Godfrey

Fire up the BBQ and crack open a beer, Summer is here and it's time for Death Fortress, Jute Gyte, Kvelertak and Nails, says Pavel Godfrey

Personal Mythology: Rob Miller Of Tau Cross & Amebix Interviewed

Pavel Godfrey talks to Man of Skye, Rob 'The Baron' Miller ahead of Tau Cross' appearance at Roadburn Festival, NL, this weekend

Intensive Realism: An Interview With Clay Rendering

Pavel Godfrey meets Tara and Mike Connelly at their home in Michigan to discover how the intoxicating atmospheres of their music as Clay Rendering emerge from impulsive writing sessions and the rhythms of everyday life

‘Let The Evil Blood Spill Out’: An Interview With kIRk

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

Divine Machinery: An Interview With Paul Jebanasam

Subtext label boss Paul Jebanasam is one of several Bristol-based musicians blurring boundaries between contemporary composition, process-based recording and the colossal physicality of sound system culture. With his debut album just released, he explains to Pavel Godfrey how "melody has a way of surviving everything"

Bosse-de-Nage & Sump In London This Week

Practitioners of the dark arts make their way to The Lexington for Lurker's Path gig on Friday

Digital Indigestion: Serving A Shoe Pie To Instagramming Food

Pavel Godfrey righteously slams the new decadents who Instagram their meals: "Unless you are a restaurant critic, the contents of your plate are as interesting as the contents of your chamber pot." Cheese photographing editors John and Luke hang their heads in shame

Extreme States Of Consciousness: Cult Of Youth Interviewed

Cult Of Youth's Love Will Prevail, recorded solo in Sean Ragon's home studio, channels European and American folk musics and chaos magic. He speaks to Pavel Godfrey about recording, religion and gnostic states

Cult Of Youth

Love Will Prevail

Light Asylum

Light Asylum

Whale Bone Clues: Nick Talbot Of Gravenhurst Interviewed

Pavel Godfrey talks to Nick Talbot about serial killing, Englishness and the Milgram Experiments in this fascinating interview