Author Gizmo
Yep, you read that right. Thirty damned years including a couple of minor ‘holidays’ due to splits and serious illness is how long Teutonic metal heads Holy Moses have been thrashing it up. Thirty. Yeah they were one of the… Continue Reading →
I have been lucky enough to have had a really good run of extraordinary albums to review recently: Luck of the draw and one case of pathetic wheedling. But they do kind of put things into sharp relief, particularly when… Continue Reading →
Three drum beats is all it needs. Three. Then that dredger like guitar sound ploughs into you while that voice rips apart your psyche. Three drum beats and it’s 1995 again. Ah, maybe not but it’s damned close. The opening… Continue Reading →
I first came across this leather clad Polish crew a few years back when their debut album ‘Curse Of The Crystal Viper’ landed on the mat from legendary distro Black Tears. It was a very rough and ready affair both… Continue Reading →
Sundown in the desert and everyone expects things to be a bit more laid back and mellow today audience wise, though the line up might beg to differ on that. Breakfasting on Icelandic beer (well it was one o’clock in… Continue Reading →
Occasionally a band seems to simply arrive. No birth pains, no demos shouted about on the Interether, no biography in the usual databases; just that sickening crunch as your skull and your psyche break under the first inexplicable encounter. Yeah,… Continue Reading →
Day Two: The second day in the desert and I wake without a hangover and convinced my beard is longer already. I am told it isn’t so I decide I must have a spirit beard and after breakfast allow myself… Continue Reading →
Desertfest – London 6-8 April 2012 (Or ‘An Old Person Survives Three Days In The Desert) Day One: Despite being hardly adverse to the odd monumental riff and Spirit Caravan style fuzzed out bliss I kind of lost touch with that… Continue Reading →
Different. Italian band seemingly named after a computer game character and inspired by Mesoamerican shamanic occultism and the teachings of Don Juan Matus to Carlos Casteneda concerning the way of the warrior as a primordial power as opposed to the… Continue Reading →
It’s a cover of wonderfully lurid colours that greets me with the Greek melodic black metal bands debut full length; deep blues, sickly greens and bright blood red. Kind of stops you in your tracks which is probably a good… Continue Reading →
Amongst the usual stuff I think about, recently there has been the question as to what we actually mean by extreme metal. I wonder because it seems to have been reduced to “has been known to use ‘death’ vocals.” In… Continue Reading →
Ah, press releases I love you. According to them with Finnish rockers Lullacry you get gothic metal (well they wear black and I guess there is a bit of musical eyeliner showing) and symphonic metal (there is a bit of… Continue Reading →