Reviews: Stengah, Mind Control, Cryptosis, Demons Of Noon (Reviews By Matt...
Stengah - Downward Mechanic EP (Mascot Records)A brand new EP from French bonecrushers Stengah is a short blast of grooving modern prog metal that will excite anyone that loved their debut album Soma...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Green Lung (Live Review By Joe Guatieri)
Green Lung & Boss Keloid, Thekla, Bristol 24.11.23 On a wet and windy Sunday night, the boat was about to be rocked as Green Lung and Boss Keloid played Thekla.Arriving late meant missing some of...
View ArticleReviews: Devin Townsend, Plini, Swansong, Skiltron (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Devin Townsend – Infinity: 25th Anniversary Edition (InsideOut Music) As he works on the next chapter of his innovative musical career, something that will take two whole years to complete, the...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Paul Di'Anno (Live Review By Paul Hutchings)
Paul Di’Anno, Nocturnal, Electric Gypsy, The Patriot, Crumlin 27/28.11.23Two sold out nights at The Home of Rock provided a warming start to a cold week in the South Wales Valley. Such is the status of...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Paradise Lost (Live Review By James Jackson)
Paradise Lost & My Dying Bride, O2 Shepherds Bush, London, 01.12.23 I have been a fan of both of tonight’s acts for as long as I can remember, having discovered both in my teens, I am now...
View ArticleReviews: Various Artists, Aggression, Helfró, Living Links (Reviews By Rich...
Various Artists - Burn On The Bayou: A Heavy Tribute To Credence Clearwater Revival (Ripple Music) [Rich Piva]Credence Clearwater Revival were and still are the best American band of all time. I could...
View ArticleReviews: Bad Touch, The Bad Electric, Winterhorde, Nebula Drag (Reviews By...
Bad Touch – Bittersweet Satisfaction (Marshall Records) [Paul Hutchings]Scroll through these esteemed pages and you’ll find ample coverage of these fine men from Norfolk. One of the best bands to come...
View ArticleReviews: Orbit Culture, Nimrod, Axenstar, Saffire (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Orbit Culture - The Forgotten (Seek And Strike Records) Swedish mechanised riff machine end their steallr 2023 with a three song EP as a thank you to everyone that supported them this year. Written...
View ArticleReviews: Blue Öyster Cult, Dimmu Borgir, Inner Circles, AAWKS (Reviews By...
Blue Öyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live: First Night (Frontiers Music Srl) [Paul Hutchings]Another live release for the New York legends on the Frontiers label, and this is the first of three...
View ArticleReviews: Mars Red Sky, Dan McCafferty, Sonny Vincent, Starchild (Reviews By...
Mars Red Sky - Dawn Of The Dusk (Mrs Red Sound/Vicious Circle) [Rich Piva]Mars Red Sky is back with album number five, and we should all rejoice because the French heavy psych/stoner/doom band rarely...
View ArticleReviews: Phobocosm, Bjorko, Clouds Taste Satanic, Ektomorf (Reviews By Paul...
Phobocosm - Foreordained (Dark Descent Records) [Paul Scoble]Hailing from Montréal, Quebec, Phobocosm have been making music together since 2008. The three piece have released two albums before...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Decapitated (Live Review By Charlie Rogers...
Decapitated, Obscura, Inferni & The Materia, The Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil, 03.12.23Twas a rainy sunday evening, the typical bleakness you’d expect for a welsh weekend in early december, especially...
View ArticleReviews: The Feral Ghosts, Sons Of Eternity, Swarf Damage, Destrukt (Reviews...
The Feral Ghosts – Black Sun (Seeing Red Records)Having been heard in the 2022 vampire movie Appetite For Sin, it’s no surprise sound like the bastard son of post punk and garage rock. It’s sultry,...
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Review: Peter Gabriel (Review By Matt Bladen)
Peter Gabriel - i/o (Real World/EMI/Republic)There's is only one Peter Gabriel, no matter what Life Of Rock With Brian Pern tells you. He's an artist that transcends music, his Real World Studio is the...
View ArticleReviews: Cassidy Paris, Everdawn, Fifth Note, Trick Or Treat (Reviews By Matt...
Cassidy Paris - New Sensation (Frontiers Music Srl)New Sensation is the debut album from Aussie rocker Cassidy Paris, inspired by the likes of Pat Benatar, Heart, Lzzy Hale et al, she’s on a mission to...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Lorna Shore (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Lorna Shore, Rivers Of Nihil, Ingested & Distant, Great Hall, Cardiff 04.12.23Cardiff got their heavy on for this mammoth four band deathtour. Ranging from tech metal, to blackened Deathcore, to...
View ArticleReviews: Varathron, ΧΞΣ (Sakis Tolis), Fuel Eater, Lethal Fate (Reviews By...
Varathron - The Crimson Temple (Agonia Records)One of the corner stones of the Hellenic Extreme Metal scene Varathron spearheaded the genre along with Rotting Christ and Necromatia, the unholy...
View ArticleReviews: Lazy Man's Load, Jehovah On Death, Scumf*cks, Fatalism (Reviews By...
Lazy Man's Load – Saints Full Of Sin (Self Released)Let’s see if Lazy Man’s Load can make more of an impact with me than they did on their 2021 debut All Hat No Cattle. Well they had their official...
View ArticleReviews: Tuber, Solitary Sabred, Silver R.I.S.C, Extremity Obsession (Reviews...
Tuber – Joyful Science (Self Released)Could Joyful Science be a late entry to my AOTY list? Maybe, it’s certainly got a hold of me quite firmly, even though I don’t usually like bands who are sans...
View ArticleReviews: Inculter, Six Foot Six, Rage Behind, Super Pink Moon (Reviews By...
Inculter – Morbid Origin (Edged Circle Productions) [Paul Hutchings]Thrash metal isn’t a genre I associate with Norway. No, the frozen North always conjures up images of the Black Metal variety, such...
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