Kiarash Golshani

Out Of Rage • 24/07/2025

Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

It was like a thundercrack, everybody knew he was sick but nobody quite seemed to know just how sick he was. The man took so much in his life that people were starting to believe that he’d found some forbidden alchemy that even the emperors of the Qin dynasty couldn’t suss out and had, in fact, become an immortal.

Out Of Rage • 12/07/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Back to the Beginning, the big Black Sabbath review - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Everyone’s feeling a little weird right now. The passing of something. Everyone knows it, but no one quite knows how to say it.

Out Of Rage • 10/07/2025

RANKED: The top 10 Green Lung songs - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Once upon a time in the smog-choked labyrinth of London’s doom metal underground scene, there was a band that clawed its way out of pint-stained floors and onto the grand stage - GREEN LUNG, hometown heroes, the underground success story.

Out Of Rage • 08/07/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: King Diamond, Unto Others, Paradise Lost - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Describing the weather before a gig may be a bit of an overused cliché for these types of reviews, but tonight the Roundhouse is suffering.

Out Of Rage • 02/07/2025

REVIEW: Sodom - The Arsonist - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Goooooooood morning, Vietnam.

Out Of Rage • 16/06/2025

INTERVIEW: A Symposium with Cwfen - Woad and White Wine with Glasgow’s Righteous Occultists - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

It has been tough figuring out how to write up Cwfen. They can’t be defined through simplistic means, nor do they fit snugly into one of the thousands of genres thought up by well-to-dos online. No, Cwfen are an entirely different beast.

Out Of Rage • 09/06/2025

REVIEW: Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

For nearly three decades, these Swedes have specialized in weaponized melancholy.

Out Of Rage • 03/06/2025

REVIEW: Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Progressive death metal Pennamites Rivers of Nihil have produced another great record. What else is new?

Out Of Rage • 28/05/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Desertfest 2025 - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

The sun is out. Greenland Place is rammed with people quaffing band-themed lagers, the vendors are out in full force, band shirts line the walls outside the Black Heart, vegan burgers and kegs are ferried back and forth, and there’s a familiar smell in the air. The music is slow. The beers are amber.

Out Of Rage • 27/05/2025

REVIEW: Cwfen - Sorrows - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Once in a while, there’s a band that comes along that just seems to get everything right.

Out Of Rage • 12/05/2025

REVIEW: Candlemass - Black Star - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Oh CANDLEMASS, how beloved are thee.

Out Of Rage • 06/05/2025

REVIEW: Counting Crows - Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

And who better to swan-dive into this swamp of nostalgic existentialism than Counting Crows, the patron saints of melancholic navel-gazing. To many they’re the band that feature on various film soundtracks and dominated many a bedroom of flannel-clad Hikkikomoris looking longingly at birds on telephone wires.

Out Of Rage • 27/04/2025

REVIEW: Melvins - Thunderball - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Explaining anything Melvins-related to the uninitiated is like trying to sell sand to Bedouins.

Out Of Rage • 09/04/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Godsmack, P.O.D. and Drowning Pool - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Do you remember 2002?

Out Of Rage • 24/03/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Wardruna and Jo Quail - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Kensington’s genteel atmosphere is disrupted with sounds woken from an age that sleeps far beneath the pavement. That can only mean one thing; WARDRUNA have come to the Royal Albert Hall. The band is only at the beginning of a long-haul odyssey across the globe, dragging their ritualized spectacle from one ancient leyline to the next. Tonight, here in Britain’s classiest concert hall, they stand in support of Birna, their latest offering. A record so staggering it effectively ruined the rest of...

Out Of Rage • 18/03/2025

REVIEW: Spiritworld - Helldorado - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

You could feel it under your feet. This low and malignant tremor stirring in the bones of the world. A sound without cognate and so without reckoning but incorporeal as spirits benighted out of the dark.

Out Of Rage • 18/03/2025

REVIEW: Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

It is the reason you got into metal in the first place, is it not?

Out Of Rage • 04/03/2025

REVIEW: Kaiser - 2nd Sound - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Imagine if you will; a truck - an old bastardized muscle machine, paint scorched by the sun, engine howling with mechanical despair - hurtling down an endless stretch of cracked desert highway. There’s a maniac behind the wheel with a left-handed cigarette burned down to the filter.

Out Of Rage • 01/03/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Opeth, Grand Magus - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

The forceful words slither into the ears of the devoted, a congregation swaying in a ritualistic delirium. Some are weeping. Parts of the crowd hold hands in a Danse Macabre. Arms go up in religious fervour. It is a garden of unearthly delights, and every soul here partakes in the fruit.

Out Of Rage • 19/02/2025

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Unleash The Archers, Striker and Seven Kingdoms - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Let’s not beat around the bush - UNLEASH THE ARCHERS are the best damn power metal band touring the planet right now.

Out Of Rage • 13/02/2025

REVIEW: Pothamus - Abur - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Once upon a time, humans and gods talked. Their medium was a plant.

Out Of Rage • 10/02/2025

REVIEW: Blood Cult - We're Gonna Take Your Soul - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Just when you think you've heard it all – along comes an album opportunity described as "redneck black metal”. Jesus wept.

Out Of Rage • 23/01/2025

REVIEW: Wardruna - Birna - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

A beast of savage majesty and atavistic gravitas, it has stalked the dreams of humankind since we first huddled around campfires and shivered under the stars. Consider the findings at Basura Cave in Savona, Italy: scientists uncovered the ancient remains of a cave bear, encircled by ritual pellets and carved stalagmites, evidence that Neanderthals may have exalted it as a guardian spirit, a deity who ruled the space between man and nature.

Out Of Rage • 21/11/2024

REVIEW: Múr - Múr - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

The harsh Icelandic tundra conjures images of beautiful glacier-falls beneath elegantly dancing northern lights in the sky.

09/03/2025

Lowen Vol 4 poster

Created for the Zakk Sabbath/Lowen EU tour

20/11/2024

LOWEN - NAJANG BA DIVHAYEH MAZANDARAN POSTER

Gig poster for their album release show at The Black Heart on 11/10/2024. Poster was sold as merch.

15/04/2024

These Heathen Lands poster

Personal poster commemorating the These Heathen Lands tour with Lowen and Green Lung in the UK and Ireland. Poster was shared to the official Lowen instagram page.

24/02/2022

METALLICA - DISPOSABLE HEROES poster

Part of a personal poster series.

24/02/2022

DEVIN TOWNSEND - OCEAN MACHINE POSTER

Part of a personal poster series

18/02/2022

CARNIVORE - GOD IS DEAD poster

Part of a personal poster series.

01/02/2022

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH poster

Part of a personal poster series. The first in the series.