Author Chris Davison
Woah. I guess folks review metal albums for all sorts of reasons. Me? I do it principally because it keeps my brain ticking over when I’m not being mentally battered at work, and I like writing about things. I also… Continue Reading →
Sometimes, the album art says it all. In the case of “The Hecatomb”, greying, blue light dimly lights a crumbling vista festooned with skulls and the detritus of skulls. This, my friends, is an omen of what is to come… Continue Reading →
Ah, Paganizer! If you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, you may not know who this Swedish bunch of miscreants are. They’re probably best known as one of the bands of scene legend Rogga Johansson. You know? Rogga? Rogga of… Continue Reading →
Brutal death metal. I suppose it makes a lot more sense, stylistically, than melodic death metal does. I’m a so/so fan of the genre, to be honest, being more of an old school death metal kind of guy for the… Continue Reading →
Could it be that Centinex are back? Why, it certainly seems so. For extreme metal fans of a certain age, Centinex are one of those bands who were a big name in Swedish death metal in and around the nineties,… Continue Reading →
So, if you were asked to name an Israeli metal band, my guess is that about 90% of you would automatically think of Orphaned Land. Well, you can now add Hammercult to your Israeli metal bands of note, with this,… Continue Reading →
Crikey, I hadn’t really followed Atlanta, Georgia’s Withered since their first full length album, “Memento Mori” way back in 2005 (Christ, I’m old), which was an album that I really rather enjoyed. A quick peruse of the old faithful Metal… Continue Reading →
Stangala are French. They are – by any reasonable measure – pretty bloody weird. On the face of this, they’re pretty bloody great too. If you manage to hear a better album recorded with all lyrics in the Breton language… Continue Reading →
Well, Iron Savior have been exposed to a level of criticism that many of the other bands I have reviewed haven’t experienced. See, I’ve been listening to this at home, whereas many of the other albums I listen to bounce… Continue Reading →
Sanzu are Australian. They are a five piece from Perth. These are facts about Sanzu. “Heavy Over the Home” is their second release, following an EP from 2015. This is another fact about Sanzu. There are fifteen songs for your… Continue Reading →
If you didn’t know any better, it would be tempting to think that there is some kind of mini “new wave of first wave death metal” thing going on, what with the re-release of this album (originally self-released by the… Continue Reading →
It’s a bit surreal to be writing a review which has been at least co-created by someone who has had such a large part to play in the formative teenage years of my life. I’m not actually talking about Lemmy… Continue Reading →