United Kingdom
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Grimmfest Weighs Hammer’s New Monster by Its Old Count
Manchester’s 18th edition pairs a fuller 1958 vampire with the first Hammer film made under the studio’s current owners.
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Conrad “Cronos” Lant Sang as the Devil, Not About Him
Conrad “Cronos” Lant, Venom’s bassist and vocalist, sang on, helped engineer, and designed the sleeve for the 1982 album ‘Black…
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Heather Davey’s ‘The Memory Tree’ Roots Dread in a Yew
An ancient yew tree unearths inherited memory in Heather Davey’s second Gothic folk horror novel from Titan Books.
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‘Unearthed’ Anthology Digs Up Horror Beneath Ancient Ruins
Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi co-edit ‘Unearthed,’ a Titan Books anthology of nineteen original stories set among the world’s ruins.
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Green Lung Turn London’s Death Trade Into ‘Necropolitan’
Green Lung set ‘Necropolitan’ inside London’s Victorian death trade, carrying British occult rock past the scene that raised it.
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Fen Returns to Roots on ‘Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth’
Fen’s eighth album opens a two-album cycle rooted in East Anglia’s drained fens, carrying atmospheric black metal beyond its native…
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Infest Tests Its Manchester Foothold for a Second Year
The UK’s longest-running dark-electronic festival returns to Manchester Academy, with IAMX headlining and Utah Saints in an Infest debut.
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Bruul Break Yorkshire’s Silence With Their Debut ‘Bruul’
Bruul’s self-titled debut EP reaches Bandcamp on July 31st, carrying Yorkshire’s atmospheric black metal into a wider underground audience.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Reading the Bandaged Figure on Anathema’s ‘Serenades’
Penprase’s sepia tableau turns a horse skull and wrapped body into a study of concealment that fronts a debut caught…
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Gothla UK Returns to Leicester for a Twentieth Year
Gothla UK opens its twentieth Leicester edition on July 10th, 2026, arguing gothic fusion belly dance has matured into a…
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Witchsorrow Keep the Faith on ‘The Devil And All His Works’
British doom trio Witchsorrow return after eight years with a record of total devotion, carrying Hampshire’s occult inheritance to a…
