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Author George Caley

My introduction to Metal and all things alternative came at the age of 11. I was already beginning to enjoy music and was soon pointed in the direction of Iron Maiden and Motorhead. A love of music developed from here delving into all manner of genres over the years as well as regularly attending gigs. By the time I was 16 I moved onto the heavier side of the Metallic die. It was at this point that I also wanted to give something back to the music world, I'd already failed at playing an instrument and so looked to reviewing. I started a YouTube channel in 2010 under the name ThatzNOTmetaL and over the next 5 years created a wealth of content, my music taste however was still expanding. After numerous changes and so forth I diversified into written media via a short lived e-zine called Eargore which in 2016 became a blog called Gore Crazy. Over the years I've learnt a lot about music and reviewing in general, so really I've now got my wish to give something back to the world of music that I adore.

Esoctrilihum – Dy’th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath (I, Voidhanger)

Since I first heard Bal-Sagoth I’ve been into Symphonic Extreme Metal. Particularly the more ridiculous side of it. Big over the top Power Metal style orchestration laying about with harsh vocals and goblin-like silliness has always appealed to me. In… Continue Reading →

Zombi – Liquid Crystal (Relapse)

You know when a band that isn’t Metal gets on a Metal label? Well that really tends to grind my gears. It makes that band into an ‘acceptable’ outlet for the Metal community, why? Can’t you just go on Bandcamp… Continue Reading →

Osiah – Loss (Unique Leader)

Deathcore is perhaps the most up and down genre for me. I have loved it, I used to be a massive Whitechapel fan (I still like them, just not as much). I also love bands like Annotations Of An Autopsy,… Continue Reading →

Dødsferd – Skotos (Transcending Obscurity)

Black Metal has always been a poorer brother to Death Metal for me. It’s a genre often billed as ‘the most shocking genre in Metal’ and stuff and I just don’t see it. Controversial maybe in terms of its murderous,… Continue Reading →

In Asymmetry – Ashes Of Dead Worlds (Comatose)

Wine apparently gets better with age, I wouldn’t know because I normally don’t drink wine that costs more than £7 but that’s what they say. So, does Metal get better with age? For the most part I’m going to say… Continue Reading →

Traumatomy – Extirpation Paradigms (Gore House Productions)

One thing I’ll never get bored of is Slam, even in my lowest Slam moments when I thought the whole genre had gone to shit I would still put on Devourment, Kraanium and all the classics that I love. I… Continue Reading →

Crypts Of Despair – All Light Swallowed (Transcending Obscurity)

Extreme Metal, what does it mean? Well to me it generally means undefined, and often times dull. I’m so entrenched in genre policing that unless I can pinpoint something I generally find it annoying. Basically, even if it’s Technical Folk… Continue Reading →

Neptunian Maximalism – Solar Drone Ceremony (I, Voidhanger)

Weird music kind of makes me sad now because literally nothing shocks or surprises me. I mean just this past week I discovered Hammer Of Dawn a Death Metal supergroup inspired by the Gears Of War universe. Now you might… Continue Reading →

Bodom Afer Midnight – Paint The Sky With Blood (Napalm Records)

Children Of Bodom are I would say a very iconic band, at least for my generation. Hate Crew Deathroll is certainly an album that I would cite as a bridge between softer Metal and more Extreme music. To me it… Continue Reading →

Endseeker – Mount Carcass (Metal Blade)

When Swedish Death Metal comes from another country is it still Swedish Death Metal? The same could be said for Brazilian Extreme Metal, very unique sounds. Ones that are highly praised too and also replicated. I think it’s high time… Continue Reading →

Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined (Metal Blade)

When we say we love a band what does that really mean? I love a lot of bands but there are probably only a handful that I truly could never be without. One of them would be Cannibal Corpse. As… Continue Reading →

Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy–The Rotted Plinth Of Sachiel (Stillbirth Records)

You become numb to long band names after a while. It’s just part of being a Goregrind/ BDM/ Gorenoise etc fan. I’d like to think that such names have actually improved my reading and vocabulary skills though. So, there you… Continue Reading →

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