A View From The Back Of The Room: Eulogy & Painted As Monsters (Live Review...
Eulogy & Painted As Monsters, Fuel Rock Club 29.12.23It’s been a good year for both bands on tonight’s bill. Stabilisation for Painted As Monsters, now an established outfit on the circuit and with...
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20. Kirk Hammett – PortalsThis cinematic four track brings a different side to the famous Metallica lead guitarist. Throughout this 27 minute journey we get to greeted by waves of ambience, textures...
View ArticleAOTY 2023: Mark Young Top 15
Presented in no order:Celestial Sanctuary – Insatiable Thirst For TormentBurner – It All Returns To NothingSermon – Of Golden VerseSpotlights – Alchemy For The DeadForcefed Horsehead –...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Pantheïst, Ofnus & Thrakian (Live Review By...
Pantheïst, Ofnus & Thrakian, Fuel Cardiff, 30.12.23The final gig of 2023 was a funeral, putting to rest what's been a surreal year for many. Natural resources continue to decline, energy prices...
View ArticleAOTY 2023: Matt Bladen Top 20
1. Green Lung - This Heathen Land2. Peter Gabriel - i/o3. Ofnus - Time Held Me Grey And Dying4. Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex5. Soen - Memorial6. Ascension - Under The Veil Of Madness7. The Abbey -...
View ArticleReviews: Dominum, Lords Of The Lost, Panzerchrist, Vocifer (Reviews By Matt...
Dominum - Hey Living People (Napalm Records) [Matt Bladen]War, Romans, Greeks, epic battles, pirates, Lord Of The Rings, Werewolves, just some of the things that power metal bands take influence from....
View ArticleReviews: EBB, Imperialist, Yoth Iria, At The Plates (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
EBB - The Management Of Consequences (Boudicca Records)EBB are an arty prog rock band who have been slowly building themselves an audience and a niche for a few years now. Having released a debut EP in...
View ArticleReviews: Alluvial, Last In Time, Ruthless, Peyton Parrish (Reviews By Matt...
Alluvial – Death Is But A Door (Nuclear Blast)Alluvial follow up their 2021 riff fest Sarcoma with this four track EP to kick off 2024. Intended to be a bridge between that album and their next full...
View ArticleReviews: Rough Justice, Yersin, Ritual Earth/Kazak, Cariosus (Reviews By Mark...
Rough Justice - Faith In Vain (MLVLTD Music) [Mark Young]And now some UKHC from Sheffield!! The debut album from Rough Justice comes via MLVTD, a metal and hardcore label who are striving to bring you...
View ArticleReviews: Exit Eden, Escuela Grind, Casey, Drown In Sulphur (Reviews By Matt...
Exit Eden – Femme Fatales (Napalm Records) [Matt Bladen]Originally a quartet of Clémentine Delauney (Visions of Atlantis), Anna Brunner (League of Distortion), Marina La Torraca (Phantom Elite) and...
View ArticleReviews: Magnum, Ryujin, Lifesick, The Clamps (Reviews By Paul Hutchings,...
Magnum – Here Comes The Rain (Steamhammr/SPV) [Paul Hutchings]It’s almost inevitable that a new Magnum will make you smile. After all, the band, whose writing is solely the responsibility of Tony...
View ArticleReviews: The Awesome Machine, Domination Campaign, Russell/Guns, Scanner...
The Awesome Machine - …It’s Ugly Or Nothing: Beneath The Desert Floor Series (Ripple Music) [Rich Piva]There is so much awesome music out there. Some of that awesome music, that really should be heard...
View ArticleTony Clarkin Remembered By Paul Hutchings
Tony Clarkin – Remembered Where do you start? You can find the history of where the Magnum guitarist and writer was born etc on the internet. I’m not about to rehash his Wikipedia page. This is more...
View ArticleReviews: No Terror In The Bang, The Darkest Moment, Ravenstine, Cancer Christ...
No Terror In The Bang - Heal (Klonosphere Records) [Patches]Progressive metal/ cinematic metal band No Terror In The Bang release their second album Heal.In recent times a lot of the more interesting...
View ArticleReviews: The Grandmaster, Jim Peterik & World Stage, Pushin' Too Hard,...
The Grandmaster – Black Sun (Frontiers Music Srl) [Matt Bladen]If an album features a member of Edguy, I’ll probably enjoy it. So I did very much enjoy the debut album from The Grandmaster, the new...
View ArticleReviews: Emil Bulls, Cold In Berlin, Metalite, Tropic Santos (Reviews By Zak...
Emil Bulls – Love Will Fix It (Arising Empire) [Zak Skane]Backstabber opens up the album with vindictive furious lyrics to its gut punching low tuned riffs performed with machine like precision, Tempo...
View ArticleReviews: Final Coil, Disconnected Souls, Advocacy, MesaVerde (Reviews By Rich...
Final Coil - The World We Inherited (Sliptrick Records) [Rich Piva]I like to peruse the promo folder and check out a little of everything to see if there is anything that, upon quick listen, piques my...
View ArticleReviews: Master, Resin Tomb, Upon Stone (Reviews By Paul Hutchings, Mark...
Master – Saints Dispelled (Hammerheart Records) [Paul Hutchings]It’s been nearly six years since the legendary Master released Vindictive Miscreant. I reviewed it back in 2018 and it gained a fine 8/10...
View ArticleReviews: Lord Dying, Saxon, South Of Salem, Dark Oath (Reviews By Paul...
Lord Dying – Clandestine Transcendence (MNRK Heavy) [Paul Hutchings]It was back in 2015 when I first encountered Lord Dying with their sophomore release Poisoned Altars. I was impressed to give it a...
View ArticleReviews: Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages, Grand, Gotus, Cobrakill (Reviews...
Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages - Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages (The Players Club)The debut album from the new band formed by six stringer and founding member of The Doors Robby Krieger is an...
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