Reviews: Origin, Vanitas, DeathFuckingCunt, Iron Tomb (Reviews By Zach Scott...
Origin – Chaosmos (Agonia Records) [Zach Scott]Origin is a technical death metal band that has been around for nearly 25 years, and has long been a mainstay in the annals of the genre’s history. And...
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Adharma - Mirror Mirror (Earache Records)Djent pop? Yeah... Djent Pop, this was the conversation between myself and my other half as we played the debut album from Adharma. It sounds as if it may be a...
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Michael Monroe - I Live Too Fast To Die Young (Silver Lining Music) [Finn O'Dell]So, who hasn't at least heard of this artist or his band from the 80's, Hanoi Rocks? This man is a legend of rock and...
View ArticleReviews: Valley Of The Sun, Charlie Griffiths, Sorcery, Bloody Heels (Reviews...
Valley Of The Sun - The Chariot (Ripple Music) [Rich P]The new Valley Of The Sun Record has been right at the top of my list of most anticipated releases for 2022. I was relatively late to the game...
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Sanguinem - Solitude (Self Released) [GC]From the opener After Dead Vision all the way to closer Hate Transfusion, you know where this is going, you get a precise driven rhythm section and laser...
View ArticleReviews: Red Sun Atacama, Yatra, GWAR, Sasquatch (Reviews By Rich P, Rick...
Red Sun Atacama - Darwin (Mrs Red Sounds Records) [Rich P]There is some killer heavy/stoner/psych rock coming out of France, and there is not a better example than the new record, Darwin, from Red Sun...
View ArticleReviews: Raider, Venus 5, Gräce, Garuda (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Raider - Runaway (Self Released)South Wales band Raider are stuck in the 1980's, unabashedly stuck in the late 80's specifically. (A bit like parts of the South Wales Valleys to be honest). They play...
View ArticleReviews: Dol Theeta, Ephemeral, Stygian Oath, Rotting Flesh (Reviews By Matt...
Dol Theeta - Monad (Self Released)Monad is the second album from Greek electronic music composer Thanasis Lightbridge's second project Dol Theeta, the others being Dol Ammad and Dol Kruug. It's his...
View ArticleReviews: Aptera, Jorn, Dragged Under, October Thorns (Reviews By David Karpel...
Aptera - You Can't Bury What Still Burns (Ripple Music) [David Karpel]Ripple Music does it again. With every release they gift fans new opportunities to hear something integral to what’s going on in...
View ArticleReviews: Monasterium, Buried Realm, Foot, Thornhill (Reviews By Finn O'Dell &...
Monasterium – Cold Are The Graves (Nine Records) [Finn O'Dell]Here we have a Polish epic doom/traditional metal band who started of in 2014. With 2 albums to their credit, they delivered the heavy for...
View ArticleReviews: Volcandra, Oreyeon, Dan Reed Network, Pathos & Logos (Reviews By...
Volcandra – Border World (Prosthetic Records) [Matt Cook]"Less is more” is as cliché as it is overused. But Volcandra took that trope to heart with one of the best four-track releases in recent memory....
View ArticleReviews: Orgg, The Eating Cave, Vypera, The Swell Fellas (Reviews By Paul...
Orgg - Dimonios (Self Released) [Paul Scoble]Italian band Orgg have been making music together since 2018. The four piece have released one album in that time in 2020’s The Great White War, making...
View ArticleReviews: White Ward, Wind Rose, Philosophobia, Adamantis (Reviews By Matt...
White Ward - False Light (Debemur Morti Productions)Like a well wrapped game of pass the parcel, there's a lot to unwrap on this third album from Ukrainian black metal experimentalists White Ward. The...
View ArticleReviews: Fallen Sanctuary, Chaos Magic, Iconic, Devil's Train (Reviews By...
Fallen Sanctuary - Terranova (AFM Records) [Matt Bladen]When you get Serenity frontman Georg Neuhauser and Temperance guitarist Marco Pastorino, get together to form a band, you can expect it to be...
View ArticleReviews: RXPTRS, Made Of Teeth, Tarraska, I Fight Bears (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
RXPTRS - Living Without Death's Permission (Metal Blade Records/Blacklight Media Records)We've talked about how the tag if 'next big thing' can be a blessing or a curse, for every band that does well...
View ArticleReviews: Werewolves, 10,000 Years, Mystery Dudes, Minipony (Reviews By Matt...
Werewolves – From The Cave To The Grave (Prosthetic Records) [Matt Cook]Though only three musicians form the megalomaniacal group Werewolves, the expertise and know-how that accompanies them is as...
View ArticleReviews: Burner, Consecration, Denied, Drive At Night (Reviews By Zak Skane,...
Burner – Vision Of The End (Church Road Records) [Zak Skane]We being our journey of grotesqueness with Ingsoc, greeting us with it’s razor sharp feedback and grinding Sabbath style guitar riffs before...
View ArticleBloodstock Metal To The Masses Winners Interview With Existentialist By Zach...
Existentialist – Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses Essex 2022 Winners Interview by Zach ScottMoM: Tell us a bit about your band - what you’re called, where you’re from, what style you play, and what you’ve...
View ArticleReview: Porcupine Tree (Review By Matt Bladen)
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation (Music For Nations) Ok. Stay cool. Stay calm. Try to approach this like any other album. My internal monologue was working overtime on the first listen to the new...
View ArticleReviews: Knoll, Billy Howerdel, Seven Kingdoms, Sole Syndicate (Reviews By...
Knoll - Metempiric (Self Released) [GC]Strap in because this is about to get grindy! From the very beginning note to the very end, Knoll proceed to absolutely ruin you with their harsh and unrelenting...
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