After striking gold with 2016’s space odyssey Splendor & Misery, L.A. experimental hip-hop trio Clipping now takes a more sinister approach. The underground subgenre known as horrorcore is now the vocation for rapper-actor (and Broadway star) Daveed Diggs’ technical, intense flow and the harsh, immersive textures of co-producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes.…

Even a handful of Emperor Caligula’s misdeeds justify the Roman leader’s legacy as an insane tyrant. His decedent sadism undercurrents Kristin Hayter’s latest album as Lingua Ignota. The Rhode Island experimental artist is no stranger to appropriating evil and violence. Infusing death industrial, avant-metal and ritual ambient music with…