Dan Franklin
A Quietus Interview
Cut the Crop: Agriculture Interviewed
While black metal history is often the story of errant youth reaping chaos, Agriculture plough their own furrow. Dan Franklin meets a band who sow explosive seeds via songwriting and then reap joyous brinkmanship onstage. Main portrait by Olivia Crumm
A Quietus Interview
Cut the Crop: Agriculture Interviewed
While black metal history is often the story of errant youth reaping chaos, Agriculture plough their own furrow. Dan Franklin meets a band who sow explosive seeds via songwriting and then reap joyous brinkmanship onstage. Main portrait by Olivia Crumm
Black Sky Thinking
25 Years of Infernal Weight: The Destructive Legacy of Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone
Dopethrone, says Dan 'The Doom' Franklin, is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. But one person was standing in the wings, with resurrection on her mind. Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham discuss the 25-year legacy of Electric Wizard's most notorious album
Black Sky Thinking
25 Years of Infernal Weight: The Destructive Legacy of Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone
Dopethrone, says Dan 'The Doom' Franklin, is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. But one person was standing in the wings, with resurrection on her mind. Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham discuss the 25-year legacy of Electric Wizard's most notorious album
A Quietus Interview
The Gold Standard: Imperial Triumphant Interviewed
Imperial Triumphant’s sixth album sharpens up their avant metal sound and polishes it to a burnished sheen. Cooking up a storm that mixes Stanley Kubrick, Art Deco and jazz, with a huge dollop of New York City, Dan Franklin speaks to Zachary Ezrin about how self-imposed restrictions expanded their modernist vision. All portraits by Shannon Void
A Quietus Interview
The Gold Standard: Imperial Triumphant Interviewed
Imperial Triumphant’s sixth album sharpens up their avant metal sound and polishes it to a burnished sheen. Cooking up a storm that mixes Stanley Kubrick, Art Deco and jazz, with a huge dollop of New York City, Dan Franklin speaks to Zachary Ezrin about how self-imposed restrictions expanded their modernist vision. All portraits by Shannon Void
A Quietus Interview
Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed
In summer 2023, death metallers Blood Incantation decamped to Berlin’s Hansa studios to record groundbreaking new album, Absolute Elsewhere. Isaac Faulk talks to Dan Franklin about how pushing at the boundaries of what a band can be and a near-disaster with an untied shoelace went into creating their most mind-expanding music yet
A Quietus Interview
Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed
In summer 2023, death metallers Blood Incantation decamped to Berlin’s Hansa studios to record groundbreaking new album, Absolute Elsewhere. Isaac Faulk talks to Dan Franklin about how pushing at the boundaries of what a band can be and a near-disaster with an untied shoelace went into creating their most mind-expanding music yet
A Quietus Interview
Wisdom Beyond Shame: Orange Goblin Interviewed
Orange Goblin frontman, “Big” Ben Ward, was infamous for drinking all comers under the table. But now he's gone sober and on new album, Science, Not Fiction, has embraced reason – up to a point. Main portrait by Tina Korhonen. Astrophotography by Giancarlo Erra
A Quietus Interview
Wisdom Beyond Shame: Orange Goblin Interviewed
Orange Goblin frontman, “Big” Ben Ward, was infamous for drinking all comers under the table. But now he's gone sober and on new album, Science, Not Fiction, has embraced reason – up to a point. Main portrait by Tina Korhonen. Astrophotography by Giancarlo Erra
A Quietus Interview
The Drop Cord: Thou on one of 2024’s Best Metal LPs, Umbilical
Thou’s new album takes a brutal back-to-basics approach, all under the ruthless glare of frontman Bryan Funck. Dan Franklin speaks to him and guitarist Andy Gibbs about holding their feet to the fire, roughly dispensing with melody and, most surprisingly, The Mighty Boosh. Main picture of Thou live by Mae Cravotta
A Quietus Interview
The Drop Cord: Thou on one of 2024’s Best Metal LPs, Umbilical
Thou’s new album takes a brutal back-to-basics approach, all under the ruthless glare of frontman Bryan Funck. Dan Franklin speaks to him and guitarist Andy Gibbs about holding their feet to the fire, roughly dispensing with melody and, most surprisingly, The Mighty Boosh. Main picture of Thou live by Mae Cravotta
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Khanate’s Things Viral
At the beginning of the millennium, Khanate created a twisted and challenging new form of sonic torment. Dan Franklin revisits the band’s reissued back catalogue and explores the harrowing context of their existence. CW: contains graphic discussion of torture and war crimes
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Khanate’s Things Viral
At the beginning of the millennium, Khanate created a twisted and challenging new form of sonic torment. Dan Franklin revisits the band’s reissued back catalogue and explores the harrowing context of their existence. CW: contains graphic discussion of torture and war crimes
Books
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...
Books
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...
A Quietus Interview
The Cost Of Living: Pyrrhon, Skepticism And The Abscess Of Capitalism
New York extreme metallers Pyrrhon have released a new album that eviscerates our current way of living. When the alternatives are insanity and death, perhaps the ancient philosopher the band is named after offers a way forward. Dan Franklin investigates, with a little help from Professor Richard Bett and Travis Bickle
A Quietus Interview
The Cost Of Living: Pyrrhon, Skepticism And The Abscess Of Capitalism
New York extreme metallers Pyrrhon have released a new album that eviscerates our current way of living. When the alternatives are insanity and death, perhaps the ancient philosopher the band is named after offers a way forward. Dan Franklin investigates, with a little help from Professor Richard Bett and Travis Bickle
A Quietus Interview
Moon Madness: Cult Of Luna And Opeth Step Into The Unknown
Cult of Luna and Opeth are so far ahead of the current metal scene that Dan Franklin had to employ a tracker to find them. Releasing two of the best albums of their careers, he spoke to Swedish frontmen Johannes Persson and Mikael Åkerfeldt about melancholy, fear and family beyond the end of the line
A Quietus Interview
Moon Madness: Cult Of Luna And Opeth Step Into The Unknown
Cult of Luna and Opeth are so far ahead of the current metal scene that Dan Franklin had to employ a tracker to find them. Releasing two of the best albums of their careers, he spoke to Swedish frontmen Johannes Persson and Mikael Åkerfeldt about melancholy, fear and family beyond the end of the line
A Quietus Interview
Tears For Fears: A Conversation With Kris Rygg Of Ulver
Not afraid to challenge their audience, Ulver are currently indulging in a different kind of pop music. Dan Franklin speaks to founding member Kristoffer Rygg about danceable gothic songs, papal conclaves, potent imagery down the centuries, and “sucking on the tit of the wolf mother”. Main Ulver portraits by Ingrid Aas
A Quietus Interview
Tears For Fears: A Conversation With Kris Rygg Of Ulver
Not afraid to challenge their audience, Ulver are currently indulging in a different kind of pop music. Dan Franklin speaks to founding member Kristoffer Rygg about danceable gothic songs, papal conclaves, potent imagery down the centuries, and “sucking on the tit of the wolf mother”. Main Ulver portraits by Ingrid Aas
Black Sky Thinking
Gravedancing: Pig Destroyer, Grindcore And The End Times
Grindcore emerged as a backlash to global capitalism, before Pig Destroyer did something much nastier with it. As they release an album that deals with our harrowing modern era, Dan Franklin examines whether this ferocious genre is actually being outstripped by a remorseless new reality. All Pig Destroyer pictures by Joey Wharton
Black Sky Thinking
Gravedancing: Pig Destroyer, Grindcore And The End Times
Grindcore emerged as a backlash to global capitalism, before Pig Destroyer did something much nastier with it. As they release an album that deals with our harrowing modern era, Dan Franklin examines whether this ferocious genre is actually being outstripped by a remorseless new reality. All Pig Destroyer pictures by Joey Wharton
Live Reviews
Hardcore Masculinity: Every Time I Die at Koko
Almost 20 years after they formed, Every Time I Die are performing a victory lap. From the chaos of the moshpit, Dan Franklin finds their primal aggression is actually a conduit for more complex messages about the problems of masculinity and the power of love.
Live Reviews
Hardcore Masculinity: Every Time I Die at Koko
Almost 20 years after they formed, Every Time I Die are performing a victory lap. From the chaos of the moshpit, Dan Franklin finds their primal aggression is actually a conduit for more complex messages about the problems of masculinity and the power of love.
Anniversary
21st Century Birth Pains: Electric Wizard’s Come My Fanatics Revisited
Dan 'The Doom' Franklin speaks to Chief Wizard Jus Oborn and gets the low down on how eschatological panic, Sabbath and drum & bass influenced Britain's most heaviocious band to give birth to the new millennium in the form of Come My Fanatics...
Anniversary
21st Century Birth Pains: Electric Wizard’s Come My Fanatics Revisited
Dan 'The Doom' Franklin speaks to Chief Wizard Jus Oborn and gets the low down on how eschatological panic, Sabbath and drum & bass influenced Britain's most heaviocious band to give birth to the new millennium in the form of Come My Fanatics...
A Quietus Interview
Born To Rune: Enslaved On The History Of Enslaved
Enslaved founder Ivar Bjørnson speaks to Dan Franklin about the story of Enslaved, the information they take from ancient Norse culture, and what he thinks, two decades on, of Varg Vikernes and the violence that engulfed the black metal scene. Photos by Peter Beste, Ole Kristian Olsen, Mirjam Vikingstad
A Quietus Interview
Born To Rune: Enslaved On The History Of Enslaved
Enslaved founder Ivar Bjørnson speaks to Dan Franklin about the story of Enslaved, the information they take from ancient Norse culture, and what he thinks, two decades on, of Varg Vikernes and the violence that engulfed the black metal scene. Photos by Peter Beste, Ole Kristian Olsen, Mirjam Vikingstad
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Roy Wilkinson On Motörhead’s Bomber sleeve, Sea Power, Rock & War
In this month's Low Culture essay, Roy Wilkinson writes about the the sleeve for Motörhead's Bomber LP and how it became both an Airfix kit and a curious artefact that sat in the anti-militarism of his brothers' band, Sea Power
