Kiarash Golshani

It really has been a long time since the boys in CORROSION OF CONFORMITY graced us mortals with an album. As much as it doesn't feel like it due to some disease-related shenanigans, 2018 was a really fucking long time ago. And now they've got a new album out, the first since stick-slinger and founding member Reed Mullin departed this mortal coil in 2020. Then during the pandemic, bassist and fellow founding member Mike Dean  decided to step out, which left only two members, Pepper  and Woody...

Round the deepest, darkest corners of the most middle-of-the-road walk-in mall lied the location of the final destination. A night of solid, old-school death metal, and for a Monday night after a long day of sticking it out at work, it was like sipping the crispiest, coolest glass of water in the world. Hell, it was more like fifteen glasses. The “Freedom or Death” tour had landed in London, and what was on offer were three absolutely excellent death metal acts to sate even the most vitriolic...

Very few instruments have crossed the undefined cross-cultural barrier of communication like the electric guitar. Like a fire from heaven, when in the possession of certain mortals you realise it’s a tool from a higher plane. It’s capable of so much, it speaks different languages depending on who's got their hands on it. There aren’t many places where this is more apparent than the Sahara, where the language it speaks is one of an unpretentious love for the experience of music. You may have...