Reviews: Chelsea Grin, Mystic Circle, Narnia, Beyond Extinction (Reviews By...
Chelsea Grin - Suffer In Heaven (ONErpm) [GC]Hello, I’m Graham and I have a problem, I can’t stop reviewing deathcore albums. Today is the turn of Chelsea Grin and part 2 of their double album set...
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Robert Jon & The Wreck - One Of A Kind (Journeyman Records) [Matt Bladen]Released as part of Joe Bonamassa and Ray Weisman's new endeavour Journeyman Records, it was produced by award winning...
View ArticleReviews: Triumpher, Riffobia, Beyond Perception, Green Yeti (Reviews By Matt...
Triumpher - Storming The Walls (Floga Records)I expected epic heavy metal, I got epic heavy metal, bassist/vocalist/main songwriter Mars Triumph is the unholy union of Joey DeMaio and Eric Adams in one...
View ArticleReviews Phantom Elite, Cross Country Driver, Stormwarning, Transworld...
Phantom Elite – Blue Blood (Frontiers Music Srl)Another week another set of Frontiers Music Srl releases. Yet again another walk on the melodic side but through the medium of symphonic metal this time....
View ArticleReviews: Pop Evil, Hatesphere, Excalion, Late Night Venture (Reviews By James...
Pop Evil - Skeletons (MNRK Heavy) [James Jackson]A brief intro opens the new album from Pop Evil, a band who have quite often been on the distance as far as my musical horizon goes, the name and...
View ArticleReviews: Hanoi Rocks, Gideon, Ignominy, Bad Bones (Reviews By David Karpel,...
Hanoi Rocks - Oriental Beat (Svart Records) [David Karpel]Sleaze royalty, purveyors of flashy, glam-punk fashion and street stained, Decline of Western Civilization Part II rock & roll...
View ArticleReviews: Ihsahn, Fatal Embrace, The Rhubarb, Xalpen (Reviews By Matt Bladen &...
Ihsahn - Fascination Street Sessions EP (Candlelight Records) [Matt Bladen]Emperor mainman and musical prodigy Ihsahn has been preferring EP’s to full length albums for a while now and his latest...
View ArticleReviews: Harboured, Embryo, L'ira Del Baccano, Words That Burn (Reviews By...
Harboured - Harboured (Lost Future Records) [Mark Young]This is the self-titled debut from Harboured, with the component parts coming together from other bands. This 4-piece promise a dense mix of...
View ArticleReviews: Ne Obliviscaris, Morass Of Molasses, Meg Myers, Maze Of Sothoth...
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul (Season Of Mist) [Mark Young]Checking online, Ne Obliviscaris is a progressive metal outfit from Australia who incorporate elements of several different musical disciplines into...
View ArticleReviews: Dawn Ray'd, Acid King, Ov Sulfur, Lost Asylum (Reviews By Paul...
Dawn Ray’d - To Know The Light (Prosthetic Records) [Paul Scoble]Dawn Ray’d should be well known to readers of these pages, the Liverpudlian trio have been making revolutionary music since 2015. The...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: W.A.S.P & South Of Salem (Live Review By...
W.A.S.P. & South Of Salem, KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton 18.03.23It’s the long awaited return of Blackie Lawless to these shores this evening with their own inimitable brand of glam metal. A sold...
View ArticleReviews: Babymetal, John Diva & The Rockets Of Love, Spectral Lore, Mace 'n'...
Babymetal - The Other One (Cooking Vinyl)I'll admit I've struggled with Babymetal in the past, their mix of ultra Kawaii J-Pop with heavy metal was a little jarring, but they seem to have become a...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Haken & Between The Buried And Me (Live...
Haken, Between The Buried And Me & Cryptodira, SWX, Bristol, 23.03.23A wonderful prog smorgasbord of a gig that had been touring Europe under the name Island In Limbo finally hit the UK at SWX in...
View ArticleReviews: August Burns Red, Shores Of Null, Cruachan, Grande Royale (Reviews...
August Burns Red – Death Below (Sharptone Records) [Zak Skane]Entering our journey we begin with the experimental intro track Premonition which introduces the listener to slide guitar lead lines, surf...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Fury & Rites To Ruin (Live Review By Matt...
Fury & Rites To Ruin, Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff, 25.03.23In a repeat of a gig from last year, Midlands based heavy rockers Fury (9) and Wales based metal band Rites To Ruin (8) again stormed the Fuel...
View ArticleReviews: Sermon, Rotten Sound, Allfather, Netherlands (Reviews By Matt...
Sermon - Of Golden Verse (Prosthetic Records) [Matt Bladen]*Disclaimer that this is not the Sermon from Turkey we reviewed a few weeks ago*Having to write this album review a second time as I deleted...
View ArticleReviews: Desert Storm, Isaak, Heezer, Wasted Death (Reviews By Matt Bladen &...
Desert Storm - Death Rattle (APF Records) [Matt Bladen]After 15 years of doggedly touring and recording four piece riff masters Desert Storm are now considered to be leaders in their field. The Oxford...
View ArticleReviews: Demonstealer, Empyre, Morrison Graves, Dead Lakes (Reviews By Paul...
Demonstealer - The Propaganda Machine (Black Lion Records) [Paul Scoble]Demonstealer is the solo project and nom-de-plume of Sahil Makhija singer and guitarist with the Indian band Demonic...
View ArticleReviews: Crown Lands, Tilintetgjort, Lordi, Kingsmen (Reviews By Matt Bladen,...
Crown Lands - Fearless (Spinefarm Records) [Matt Bladen]There's been a lot of Crown Lands releases, many EP's that feature the same songs, plenty of singles but Fearless is the Canadian duo's follow up...
View ArticleReviews: Bury Tomorrow, Floor Jansen, Last In Line, Wyndrider (Reviews By...
Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Son (Music For Nations) The sort of reinvention that many searched for on Bury Tomorrow’s last album has clearly come from their lineup shift. Guitarist/clean vocalist Jason...
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