Anaal Nathrakh may have been around for over a decade, but for most of that time they were a studio-only project. So when they came to London to tour their vicious, putrid and generally despicable new album Passion we rushed down to the dingy hall of the Underworld to bathe in their filth. Mmmmm, filth-bathing.
Xerath
II
Candlelight Records
25 April 2011
by Tom Dare
Second albums can be a tense time, but when the second album raises the standards significantly, hones what the debut did so distinctively from a rough sketch to the full glorious multicoloured picture – as Xerath have with II – the effect is instant. It’s taken me several weeks to calm down enough and stop shouting “FUCK YES!” so I can tell you about how brilliant this is. [Read more →]