Author Andrew Doherty
Promoted as an example of the New Wave of Swedish Death Metal, for me this album had a distinct old school air about it. With its intense driving force, death n roll covers it nicely. The band who deliver it… Continue Reading →
This carefully crafted album by Italian band In My Shiver is a dark affair. I’m tempted to call it “gothic” and reckon I could justify that on the basis that it is gloomy and atmospheric. It’s heavier and occasionally lighter… Continue Reading →
As a lady reads out a graphic description of a degenerating world, there’s a quiet build-up of post rock. It’s a familiar sound but the guitar ring has a sweetness in its echo. It’s gentle, and supported by delicate splatterings… Continue Reading →
San Diego is sunny. Carnifex, who come from there, are not. This is their fifth album of “your worst nightmare” deathcore. Alarm bells ring. They herald a technical onslaught, supported by a chugging machine. It’s a bit tick-box: growling bass,… Continue Reading →
If you like your metal to be modern, heavy, energetic, melodic and djenty, this is for you. Vortice come from Barcelona and are releasing their third album with “Host”. They were presented to me as a band who play thrash,… Continue Reading →
I listened to a sample of what was a three minute extract of “Lost Fulcrum”, the first track on this album. I was attracted to the deep and chunky six string bass sound and wanted to hear more. Human Beansauce… Continue Reading →
Part of the process of this review was to refresh myself on where Earth Crisis came from to get to where they are. I duly bludgeoned myself my listening to their 2011 oeuvre “Neutralize the Threat”. Puffing my cheeks out… Continue Reading →
The six tracks of this album by Polish band Fleshworld have been the result of four years work. It’s appropriate that such labour should result in post-metal. But there’s post-metal of the drawn out variety, and the sort which reaches… Continue Reading →
I don’t know what they classify as “heavy rock” in Canada but if ever there was a matching genre which does a band an injustice, this is it. In fairness, we’re also promised “rough, in your face trash rock”. I’m… Continue Reading →
Here goes with Horizon Ablaze’s second album. Described as a “nihilistic apocalypse of molten extreme metal”, “Dødsverk” (Death Work) calls upon the violence you would associate with fellow Norwegians 1349 with a bit of our own Anaal Nathrakh thrown in… Continue Reading →
I had a preview of this album with last year’s single release of the bouncy and anthemic “Shadowmaker”, which features on this album. It mixes Crematory’s melodic gothic metal style, which they’ve been perfecting over 23 years, with a strong… Continue Reading →
With lashings of bombast, this album races off into fantasy-filled progressively power metal territory. There’s plenty of punch in the drumming, the vocals are heading towards epic lands and the chorus adds to the pomposity. It’s everything you’ve heard before… Continue Reading →