Author Matt Mason
It’s been a couple of years since Cave Dweller’s debut Walter Goodman (or the empty cabin in the woods) entered my unsuspecting ears. I gave it 9.5 out of ten despite finding it hard to describe the profound effect that Adam R Bryant’s… Continue Reading →
What a name for a band. Slugs and snails and puppy dog’s tails. Well if the gender biased nursery rhyme is to be believed I should dig this or have it imprinted on my DNA at least. Well god and also damn I’m a real boy coz I gig this like a shovel through, well, Slugcrust…. Continue Reading →
Breakbeat Grindcore? Sounds like a subgenre that would have got Earache chomping at the bit in the early noughties when they were getting excited over Gabber and everything electronic. Bloodbox was born out of NZ Death Metallers Vext in 1999 when CyZERNOBrG and Megalith X moved to Ireland via… Continue Reading →
It’s five years since I gave “Deceases” a 9 out of 10 review on this very site. In Covid Years that is no time at all. So here are the crushing Finns back once again to drop the heavy on the world. In case you don’t know… Continue Reading →
Self-proclaimed Witch Doom duo Blacklab hail from Osaka and mix up stoner, psyche and Doom with elements of 90’s grunge to tickle eardrums on this, their third full length. I say tickle, but if truth be told, pummel is the… Continue Reading →
It’s been 6 years since “Nihilism” rattled my teeth. That was the Dutch noiseniks second album and it gave me all the right feels in all those wrong places (you know the ones that hurt soooooo good!) The fact that it has taken them 6 years… Continue Reading →
All is not well. Hmmm kind of an apt title for this collage of an album. The Machinist that recorded the album are not to be confused with the Manchester band of the same name, which is what I fear… Continue Reading →
I do like an E.P. Which is pretty lucky as there seems to be loads of them flying about at the moment – hey Ed you need to start letting us put them in our fave lists of the year [err nope Ed]. What used to… Continue Reading →
Albums of the year are special things. To hand that accolade to a Black Metal debut is something I didn’t think I would ever do. However, Godslastering Hymns of a Forelorn Peasantry was so damn good and hit just the right spots for me in 2021…. Continue Reading →
I’ll be honest I have not really kept up with “The Waste” over the years. I have most of the albums they have released on MP3 left unlistened to (tape trader style innit – I’m an old thrasher) and that is something I was completely comfortable with…. Continue Reading →
A couple of days before this appeared on the new releases list from Ave Noctum towers I read an article online featuring Knoll. It was one of those ones to watch or get your ears round this shit kind of affairs from either… Continue Reading →
Let me get this straight from the get go. I have always been a fan of werewolves, as in lycanthropes. When it comes to folklore and myths there is something about a curse turning a man or woman into a hairy bloodthirsty… Continue Reading →