Author Matt Mason
Raw noise infused bestial Black Metal informed by a free form Jazz style. Easy listening this was not going to be, but what is life without a challenge? This Dutch duo are ex members of Nihil and Dead Neanderthals and… Continue Reading →
FUBAR are a quintet from Southern Netherlands and make the kind of rampant spiky Grindcore that makes you want to pick up a spray can, or a book and make a difference. The title “Weltschmerz” is a German work meaning… Continue Reading →
NO KARATE IN THE PIT! You heard! Denver based Thrashers Havok are still as vehemently old school in their approach to music and there are no toxic beer mugs or tough guy macho stylings in sight. I interviewed founding vocalist/guitarist… Continue Reading →
With a moniker that sounds like a collaboration between the Discovery Channel and SyFy come these rock and roll outlaws from Melbourne. Supersonic Rock ‘n’ Roll like the band name is a mish-mash of styles. J Fuller from Blood Duster… Continue Reading →
In 2007 Anorexia Nervosa came to an end precipitated by the departure if RMS Hreidmarr who has chosen to concentrate on the less symphonic more electronic The CNK. Seven years later Stephane Bayle picked up his guitar again and gathered… Continue Reading →
Both the project name (a duo is not a band surely) and the title of the album grabbed me by the beard hair and span me round when I first heard the prom at the arse end of 2016. After… Continue Reading →
This 2 track EP from The Ruins of Beverast sees the one man Black/Doom project of Alexander von Meilenwald partake of the brown acid and head off into space. This is Black metal for Psychonauts or psychedelic doom for wearers… Continue Reading →
I first heard Craving from Germany earlier this year on Sex to 9 with Maria on TotalRock and promptly got At Dawn their 2013 album. Craving mix up Power metal, Folk Metal and Melodic Death/ Black Metal to create a… Continue Reading →
Apparently this Oakland based trio take their moniker from a 1922 fantasy novel by Eric Rucker Eddison. Give it a look on the web if Norse style high fantasy is your thang. With that in mind the listener may be… Continue Reading →
A smoking bearded skull with fucked up teeth and tusks. The cover is Ronseal baby. This Swedish three piece offer three songs on this EP and in the 15 minutes they have the listener is gonna get bludgeoned! The three… Continue Reading →
These Dutch noiseniks have only been in existence since 2013 and already they are spewing forth Nihilism as a follow up to “Misanthropy”. (positive chaps eh?) . These guys chew up grindcore, crust and hardcore, gargle black and death and… Continue Reading →
Reviewing this album is a Herculean task. Wait don’t strop off muttering “bloody net reviews with their freebies moaning”! This is no “ugh I have to put myself through THIS?!!” cry for pity. I really like this band. Well to… Continue Reading →