Author Gizmo
Alberta, Canada is the stamping ground of new power metal hopefuls Edge Of Attack. Featuring some names that the more parochial of us may find a little curious (Dallas Dyck foremost and two people with the actually rather lovely name… Continue Reading →
As a label, Candlelight seem to have a knack of signing bands off the back of a demo before they do anything else. Ear to the ground I guess. Not being privy to their success rate I can’t comment on… Continue Reading →
Another little tease from US doomheads Orchid. A three tracker with one from the forthcoming Nuclear Blast full length (Wizard Of War), one apparently exclusive to this EP (Demon’s Eyes) and one re-recording from the Capricorn debut (Albatross). Wizard Of… Continue Reading →
UK band Deceptor are it’s fair to say pretty old school heavy metal/thrash. No death metal here, just galloping rhythms and neck-break leads with occasional soaring vocals. And vocoder interludes. And songs about war, science fiction and so on. See?… Continue Reading →
Corsair are one of those almost defiantly not modern metal bands who wander out of the US in particular now and then; a rock band who hark back to the days when Thin Lizzy were the heaviest thing on the… Continue Reading →
Around since 1998 but seemingly cursed by line-up changes, Argentina’s Helker are now on their fourth full length. This time though they are doing their first album in English (though I believe there is still a Spanish language version available)… Continue Reading →
I have to admit to initially not being too sure how to deal with this debut by Head Of The Demon. Lovecraft themed (there’s a lot of it about this year already). Swedish band with unknown members from name bands… Continue Reading →
Germany’s Alpha Tiger reckon that they’re showing that you don’t have to be ancient to play true, traditional heavy metal. Well I’m sure Bullet, Enforcer, Cauldron, Wolf, Dark Forest, In Solitude and dozens of others would be intrigued to know… Continue Reading →
And it begins. Keyboard waves lapping as a tide as the regimented, classic industrial drum sound kicks in. The riff matches it pounding for pounding with the template that’s been with us since Demanufacture. The death vocals rise and Of… Continue Reading →
Names. Hmm. The problem with some names is that they have been used for one thing or another for so long that you get confused as to when you have been hearing about them recently. Anyway, to clear it up,… Continue Reading →
I know very little. No idea what Metasultra means. No idea what ‘girth metal’ could possibly mean beyond the variety of rude ideas I just came up with. No idea who started the argument between the two skeletons on the… Continue Reading →
I was rather pleased to get this as, somehow, I’d never managed to sit down and listen to this oddly named (for a black metal band) set of Americans. They don’t mess around either; pretty much straight into the title… Continue Reading →