Reviews: Thermality, Massive Hassle, Positive Reaction, Myrk- (Reviews By...
Thermality - The Final Hours (Black Lodge)Formed at Vara (Sweden) Academy of Music & Business, Thermality are a disgustingly young, disgustingly talented band playing the style of metal Sweden is...
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Attractive Chaos - Tame Conquer (Self Released) [Zak Skane]Opening up the album The Moon brings in some huge anthem vibes with the lead guitars bringing catchy solos and some driving group woahs...
View ArticleReviews: Within The Ruins, Alleviate, Mike Tramp, Loss (Reviews By Mark...
Within The Ruins - Phenomena II (MNRK Heavy) [Mark Young]And now some Deathcore. It is not that I have a problem with Deathcore as a whole, I can appreciate the craft involved in writing and performing...
View ArticleReviews: Nile, Fostermother, Simone Simons, Endless Chain (Reviews By Charlie...
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All (Napalm Records) [Charlie Rogers]The South Carolina Ancient Egypt and Sweep Picking Appreciation Society, also known as Nile, break into the double digits of full...
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Review: Steve Cropper And The Midnight Hour (Review By Paul Scoble)
Steve Cropper And The Midnight Hour – Friendlytown (Provogue Records)Steve Cropper is one of the most important musicians and producers of popular music, in many ways he is more responsible than most...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: The Obsessed (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
The Obsessed, Ritual King & Sigirya, The Bunkhouse Swansea, 20.08.24A big ol' bag of riffs hit Swansea as one of the stoner/doom tours of the year rolled it's way into The Bunkhouse in a haze of...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Doom For Mental Health
Pantheist, Warcrab & Lung, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, 24.08.24Doom For Mental Health, may sound like a juxtaposition but for many, my wife and myself included, listening to something downbeat, sad,...
View ArticleReviews: Gravenoire, Kingcrow, All For Metal, Mammoth Volume (Reviews By Mark...
Gravenoire - Devant La Porte Des Étoiles (Season Of Mist) [Mark Young]The accompanying bio for Gravenoire’s debut EP intrigued me. Traditionally, the associated PR will promise much and sometimes lose...
View ArticleReviews: Demiser, Orme, Sidewinder, Drenched (Reviews By Matt Bladen, Rick...
Demiser - Slave To The Scythe (Metal Blade Records/Blacklight Media Records) [Matt Bladen]Despite having some rubbish pseudonyms and titles that only gore soaked death metal bands would use. South...
View ArticleReviews: Wintersun, Uniform, Erronaut, Elkapath (Reviews By Richard Oliver,...
Wintersun - Time II (Nuclear Blast) [Richard Oliver]This is an album that has certainly taken its time to get here. A long-awaited and extremely overdue sequel to the Time I album by Finnish band...
View ArticleReviews: Death League, Orra, Vonavibe, Cult Of Orpist (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Death League - Inferno (Theogonia Records)Death metal has many forms and on Inferno, Death League's debut album they are inspired by the melodic death metal scene of Sweden and rampage through your...
View ArticleReviews: Paralydium, Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks, The Georgia Thunderbolts,...
Paralydium - Universe Calls (Frontiers Music Srl)Oh we are so back! Universe Calls is the second album from Swedish progressive metal band Paralydium. Beginning as a Dynazty off shoot, since their name...
View ArticleReviews: Zeal And Ardor, Thunderbird Divine, Spectral Wound, Earth Lux...
Zeal And Ardor - Greif (Self Released) [Mark Young]Every now and then wires are crossed, and the spectre of a Chucklebrother ‘To Me, To You’ mishap looms large. Which is a roundabout way of saying that...
View ArticleReviews: Oceano, Forlorn Hope, Deliver The Galaxy, Mojo Thunder (Reviews By...
Oceano - Living Chaos (Sumerian Records) [GC]When you think of big names in the deathcore scene there are only really a few that could claim to be household names, I won’t start naming other bands in a...
View ArticleReviews: Nails, Tantrum, Entropy, WALL (Reviews By GC, Paul Hutchings, Mark...
Nails - Every Burning Bridge (Nuclear Blast Records) [GC]Is has been 8 long and depressing years since Nails released their last album and, in that time, we can all agree that the world has changed and...
View ArticleReviews: Fleshgod Apocalypse, Anciients, Deadscape, Salt On Sunday (Reviews...
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera (Nuclear Blast Records) [Matt Bladen]What would you do if you had a life changing fall while mountain climbing, all the weeks and months of medical tests, surgeries, not...
View ArticleReviews: To The Grave, Thrown, Worn Out, Furnace (Reviews By GC)
To The Grave - Everyones A Murderer (Unique Leader Records)It was only last year that I reviewed a To The Grave album and really enjoyed it, so I was slightly surprised when I saw Everyone's A Murderer...
View ArticleReviews: Leprous, Norna, Phaëthon, Lectric (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement (Inside Out Music)Looks like they've gone and done it after threatening for a few albums now. Leprous have gone full art pop, admittedly this is the brooding, darkly...
View ArticleReviews: Swervedriver, Pneuma Hagion, Satan's Satyrs, iNsCissorS (Reviews By...
Swervedriver - Doremi Faso Latido (Outer Battery Records) [Rich Piva]Let’s all give Outer Battery Records a round of applause as they are doing music lovers all around the world a solid by...
View ArticleReview: Moggs Motel, The Cold Stares, Black Sites, Elephant Tree (Reviews By...
Moggs Motel - Moggs Motel (Steamhammer / SPV)After his health problems, that out paid to the farewell tour of British hard rock icons UFO, there was a part of me that thought we would never hear his...
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