Author Chris Davison
Perhaps you’ve got too much to be cheery about? You know, the economy in freefall, the planet on fire, our government being steered by a succession of people seemingly completely incapable of not acting in venal self-interest. Maybe, just maybe,… Continue Reading →
Can it really be way back in 2017 that Witchery had their last album? Well, Jensen’s Swedish dark blackened thrash crew are back with another album, along with another line-up change. Victor Brandt, who it turns out had actually toured… Continue Reading →
I really like The Wakedead Gathering. I’ve reviewed their previous work, notably their 2016 masterpiece “Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre” and their 2017 split with Ecferus. They’re a tricky band to review mind you, as they straddle so many… Continue Reading →
French crew Temple of Worms hail from that bastion of all things death metal, that being – of course – um…Lyon. Still, while that region may not be best known for extreme metal, this is that band’s first full length… Continue Reading →
Sometimes, what you need is a short nasty and brutish release. That’s exactly what we have here from German death metallers Teratoma, with a 6 track mini CD that does exactly what it says on the tin. The PR sheet… Continue Reading →
Melodic doom/death from Pittsburgh. This is apparently their tenth year together, although they aren’t a band which until up until this point I had heard of. The accompanying blurb mentioned a few bands that would suggest that they would be… Continue Reading →
Proper heavy metal. You don’t come across it much these days. I was looking through some old rock magazines of my dad’s the other day, and back when, “heavy metal” was a really broad umbrella. Once we started to sub-genre… Continue Reading →
It was really the end of the eighties before I started to become aware of death metal proper. I was a thrash kid through that period (and beyond), being primarily a big fan of the big four and the British… Continue Reading →
Right off the bat, I really wasn’t sure what I was going to get when I popped this CD into the player. The only things I knew were that Agnes Vein were a Greek band, but upon further inspection I… Continue Reading →
More tea, vicar? No thanks, I prefer to listen to mid-tempo death metal in the vein of Bolt Thrower, Asphyx or Hail of Bullets thanks. Well, that’s what the PR sheet from FDA records promises me, and if the album… Continue Reading →
The quality control at Transcending Obscurity continues to be of high value, as we come to this first album from Birmingham’s progressive death metallers, “As the World Dies”. Certainly, lead guitarist Scott Fairfax is going to be a familiar name… Continue Reading →
Abbath. His press blurb calls him “The Lemmy of Black Metal”, and as much as I wanted to revolt against this idea, I have to agree. He’s had some much-publicised troubles in the last couple of years, but he appears… Continue Reading →