Author Pete Woods
A couple of observations over the past year have not escaped me and that is the amount of death metal arriving from France and also thrash from Spain. Fully endorsing the latter are this relatively new outfit from Barcelona who… Continue Reading →
It’s certainly not the first time to round off the gig going year with a show from the Nephs. They do like playing as close to the Summer and Winter solstices as possible. Indeed, a poster behind me reminds of… Continue Reading →
Back at our favourite former Grindhouse cinema for a top bill on a freezing cold evening. Thankfully the train strikes don’t seem to have had a huge impact, as the show has sold out and it’s already packed as local… Continue Reading →
They started off as a chaser to a main pint of bands such as Caronte, Forgotten Tomb and Death SS but over a few albums Whiskey Ritual have become a drinking session in their own right. What they have thrown… Continue Reading →
2022 has not been quite the full-on disaster movie of the last few years, aliens have not landed and the dead have not come back to inherit the earth. Whilst one has the feeling of impending doom and these are… Continue Reading →
Before the Internet, label samplers used to be part of the life’s blood when it came to discovering new artists and music. Some of them introduced us to a roster of bands that clicked and has had us following things… Continue Reading →
After causing a bit of a stir with 2020 release Sternenberster, this “extermination sect” from Germany are back. Essentially the work of Kerem Yilmaz who works alongside a session drummer and expands things for live performances this is a work… Continue Reading →
I almost fell through a time-warp opening the envelope and pulling out this EP. After sniffing to see if it smelled of patchouli it was time to work out that it was a new and second release from Isle Of… Continue Reading →
Viddy me well oh droogie ones. In search of a bit of in-out in-out or some ultraviolence the other nochy. My branda and I stopped off at the Korova milk bar and lo and behold heard these choodessny warbles. What… Continue Reading →
Conceived back in 2007 by German musician / vocalist Natrgaard, listeners were taken on a path that judging by titles took a DSBM route. Having not heard them I can only make an educated guess on that. After an 8-year… Continue Reading →
As Voivod once stated in a futuristic voice “We are connected” and although musically very different, that is what we have here, an epic album taking to the outer limits and providing a cautionary tale of the near future for… Continue Reading →
Very much an album of two halves here from this Texan quintet. On the one hand we have 5 songs including an instrumental closer and on the other a set of four covers. The reason why they chose the second… Continue Reading →