Reviews: Crown Magnetar, Evile, Eleine, Cathalepsy (Reviews By Mark Young &...
Crown Magnetar - Everything Bleeds (Unique Leader Records) [Mark Young]Ten songs in 31 minutes, I can get behind that because I am in a rush today. We know that press releases that accompany any new...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Root Zero & Pyrogaric (Live Review By Matt...
Root Zero & Pyrogaric, Fuel Rock Club, 14.07.23Another Thursday. Another Gig. Same Venue.Having arrived later than planned due to ourside commitments i managed to miss another head crishing from...
View ArticleReviews: Celene, Project Renegade, Thelemite, Sons Of Zevedeus (Reviews By...
Celene - Forlorn Paradise (Sleaszy Rider Records)Founded in Patras, Greece by Dionysis Maratos, Celene are a post-black, death/doom bands who encapsulate the atmospheric darkness of bands such as...
View ArticleReviews: Aetherian, Mystfall, Temple Of Katharsis (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Aetherian - At Storm's Edge (Lifeforce Records) [Matt Bladen]Does melodic death metal have to come from Scandinavia? Absolutely not. In fact our friends in the Mediterranean have been unleashing some...
View ArticleReviews: Blackscape, The Parallax Method, Inhumed, Esprit D ’Air (Reviews By...
Blackscape - Suffocated By The Sun (Massacre Records) [C Hunter]Suffocated By The Sun is the debut album by Swedish trio Blackscape. Before even taking a listen, I spent some time admiring the album...
View ArticleReviews: Saint Agnes, Cadaver, Thunder Horse, Somnuri (Reviews By Mark Young,...
Saint Agnes - Bloodsuckers (Spinefarm) [Mark Young]Latest release from London four-piece Saint Agnes, fronted by vocal A-bomb Kitty A. Austen and is a focused, aggressive album that swims within a...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Glenn Hughes (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Glenn Hughes & Dead Sea Skulls, Tramshed Cardiff, 19.07.23Cardiff’s Tramshed on a Tuesday night saw a sneak peek at a tour that will be playing more venues towards the end of the year. But with a...
View ArticleReviews: Voivod, Mizmor, Oxbow, Inhuman Condition (Reviews By Paul Scoble,...
Voivod - Morgöth Tales (Century Media Records) [Paul Scoble]Regular readers of these pages should be familiar with Voivod, the band have been making extremely interesting Metal since 1981 with an...
View ArticleReviews: Midnight Realm, Ageless Summoning, Phoenix Lake, Chapel Floods...
Midnight Realm – Engineering The Apocalypse (Self Released)A concept record based around the psyche of a character called ‘The Architect’, the theme to this debut album by British metal mob has a bit...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Mithras (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Mithras, Absolution, Rend Them Asunder & Deliberate Miscarriage, Hangar 18, Swansea, 22.07.23 Being a promoter in this day and age is a tough business, lack of presales due to covid hangovers,...
View ArticleReviews: The Devil's Trade, Ashley Sherlock, Degreed, James Robledo (Reviews...
The Devil’s Trade - Videkek Vannak Idebenn (Season Of Mist) [Rich Piva]The Devil’s Trade is a one-man dark folk/ambient spooky project from Hungarian artist David Mako and Videkek Vannak Idebenn is his...
View ArticleReviews: Randy & The Goats, Fraction, Scream Maker, Edge Of Paradise (Reviews...
Randy & The Goats - On The Lam (RidingEasy Records) [Rich Piva]The very cool RidingEasy Records has graced us with 16 editions of the always awesome Brown Acid Series which brings tons of lost...
View ArticleReviews: Neal Morse, The Zenith Passage, Rannoch, Nitroverts (Reviews By...
Neal Morse - An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live in Hamburg (InsideOut Music) [Manos Sideris]If you are waiting for an objective, unbiased review, then fellas I am going to have to disappoint...
View ArticleReviews: Greta Van Fleet, Freedom Call, Velvet Viper, Jamie's Elsewhere...
Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher (Lava/Republic Records) [Mark Young]Being completely honest I’d never heard anything by Greta Van Fleet, but I have heard of them, either within the music press or for...
View ArticleReviews: James And The Cold Gun, Viral Tyrant, Vendetta, Salem Trials...
James & The Cold Gun – James & The Cold Gun (Loosegroove Records) [Matt Bladen] There’s meteoric rises and then there’s James & The Cold Gun, having seen them supporting Therapy? at...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Mondo Generator (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Mondo Generator, Heavy On The Ride & Baby Schillaci, The Bunkhouse Swansea, 25.07.23 Another trip to Swansea, this time though it was less about death and more about groove as the stoner/desert...
View ArticleReviews: Astralborne, Mutoid Man, Nuclear Power Trio, Arch Blade (Reviews By...
Astralborne – Across The Aeons (Prosthetic Records) [Matt Bladen]There has been some absolutely incredible melodic death metal this year, the bar is very high for any band in the genre releasing an...
View ArticleReviews: The Sun’s Journey Through The Night, Blackning, AcidBrain, James...
The Sun’s Journey Through The Night - Worldless (Church Road Records) [Paul Scoble]British Black Metal act The Suns Journey Through The Night have been putting out music for just over four years. The...
View ArticleReviews: Fen, Chris Boltendahl's Steelhammer, Omicida, Redeye Caravan...
Fen – Monuments To Absence (Aural Music) There are bands that can be used as lynchpins for entire genres, laying down the foundation for many others to come. In the UK black metal scene Forefather...
View ArticleReviews: Lokust, Girlschool, Gateway, TakaLaiton (Reviews By Matt Bladen &...
Lokust - Infidel (Self Released)Guitarists Alexy Khoury and Jeremy Pringsheim, formed Lokust 2017, starting out as an instrumental duo they found drummer Euler Morais, bassist Patryk Kopo recording...
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