A View From The Back Of The Room: Pyrogaric (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Pyrogaric, The Little Tap House, Newport, 24.02.23I've seen bands in some odd venues, in fields, churches even a KFC but most of the time you're in a basement somewhere, usually as the band are setting...
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Enslaved - Heimdal (Nuclear Blast Records) [Mark Young]Heimdal is their 16th release and shockingly I have never come across them before on my travels. Described as being exponents of avant-garde...
View ArticleReviews: Entheos, Giffromgod, Connor Selby, Kardinal Sin (Reviews By Mark...
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade Records) [Mark Young]Good Lord!! This is something else. Belting off with a deep growl and a spidery guitar line and some fierce drumming, Entheos come...
View ArticleReviews: Haken, Lunar, Trench Dogs, Reboot The System (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Haken - Fauna (Inside Out Music)Returning to having a previous member in your band could be a recipe for disaster but on Fauna, the seventh album by British prog kings Haken, the return of original...
View ArticleReviews: Temptress, Witchthroat Serpent, Woewarden, Ravenstine (Reviews By...
Temptress - See (Metal Assault Records) [Rich Piva]The veteran musicians from the Dallas, Texas band Temptress unleash their siren song on the world in the form of their debut full length, See, and...
View ArticleReviews: Siege Of Power, Death Pill, Venomous Concept, Mur.Doc 104 (Reviews...
Siege Of Power - This Is Tomorrow (Metal Blade Records) [Matt Bladen]When Chris Reifert (Autopsy), Paul Baayen (Asphyx), Theo van Eekelen (ex-Hail of Bullets), Bob Bagchus (ex-Asphyx) get together you...
View ArticleReviews: Enemy Of Reality, Thy Darkened Shade, Ecollapse, WiderSin (Reviews...
Enemy Of Reality - Where Truth May Lie (Vinyl Store.Gr)The highly anticipated third album from Greek symphonic metal band Enemy Of Reality is another concept album that is based on a fictional story...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Bad Omens (Live Review By James Jackson)
Bad Omens, Ghostkid & Oxmorrons, The Mill, Birmingham 01.03.2023I’ve arrived in Birmingham uneventfully, which makes a welcome change and parked my car, whilst I enter my details into the app I...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Left To Die (Live Review By Tony Gaskin)
Left To Die, Iron Tomb & Absolution, The Asylum, Birmingham 04.03.23An evening of old school Death Metal in the heart of the Home of MetalThere was already a large contingent of headbangers in the...
View ArticleReviews: Viscera, 71TONMAN, Marauder, Redlight King (Reviews By Zak Skane,...
Viscera – Carcinogenesis (Unique Leader Records) [Zak Skane]After a gothic tinged symphonic introduction we are slapped in the face with sadness soaked power chords before a whirl wind of blast beats...
View ArticleReviews: Skam, Stargazer, Cromlech, Blak29 (Reviews By Matt Bladen & Rich Piva)
Skam - Intravenous (X Ray Records) [Matt Bladen]Reviewed as separate EP's by m'colleague Simon in 2021. The Intra and Venous EPs have now become one album called, wait for it, Intravenous. This will be...
View ArticleReviews: Unfelled, Otherwise, Håndgemeng, Suicide Silence (Reviews By Mark...
Unfelled - Pall Of Endless Perdition (Season Of Mist) [Mark Young]Unfelled offer their debut full length album and looking online for information on their sound, they note that they are Pagan Black...
View ArticleReviews: Isole, The Cold Stares, Depraved Murder, Dirge (Reviews By Paul...
Isole - Anesidora (Hammerheart Records [Paul Scoble]Formed in 2004, Isole have been making huge noises in their base in Gävle, Sweden. The four piece band is made up of Daniel Bryntse on guitar and...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Masters Of The Riff II (Live Review By Matt...
Masters Of The Riff II, Oslo Hackney, Greater London 04-05.03.23The second installment of the Masters Of The Riff festival organised by the mysterious but loud London Doom Collective made its way to...
View ArticleReviews: Sortilège, Dream Upon Tombs, Plague Bearer, Flesh Mechanics (Reviews...
Sortilège – Apocalypso (Season Of Mist) [Simon Black]Sortilège are not an act I had heard of before. Originally active in Paris in the early 80’s, and having done some respectable local support work...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Bullet For My Valentine (Live Review By...
Bullet For My Valentine, Jinjer and Atreyu, Swansea Arena, Swansea, 10.03.23First venture to Swansea area showed me that it basically a giant theatre set up, with the 'standing' area just the bit...
View ArticleReviews: Frozen Crown, Demons Down, Seventh Crystal, Decemberance (Reviews By...
Frozen Crown - Call Of The North (Scarlet Records)Frozen Crown's fourth album in six years, sees the Italian band heading to the frozen Northlands with songs inspired by the shows Game Of Thrones and...
View ArticleReviews: Periphery, Foretoken, Contrarian, Redemption (Reviews By Matt Bladen...
Periphery - V: Djent Is Not A Genre (3Dot/Century Media/eOne) [Matt Bladen]Don't worry folks, one of the pillars of the entire djent scene aren't going AOR on us anytime soon. The title of their new...
View ArticleReviews: Night Demon, Downfall Of Gaia, Dez Dare, Die Like Gentlemen (Reviews...
Night Demon - Outsider (Century Media) [Rick Eaglestone]California’s heavy metal institution Night Demon return with their third full length album OutsiderOpening like the intro to an obscure 80’s...
View ArticleReviews: The Answer, Kamelot, Ice Age, Elysion (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
The Answer - Sundowners (Golden Robot Records)Seven years is a long time in rock n roll but only a few years after the release of their last album Solas, one rock radio station, which was built on the...
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