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Matt Mason (The Mighty One)

Big mouth. Big belly. Big...............ego! Since the age of 14 I have had headphones strapped to my head blasting metal, punk , goth and hippety hop. Never a genre purist I feel that the worlds musicians are merely there to provide the soundtrack to my adventures from my Norf Landan roots to my exile in the Suffolk wilderness (Ipswich).
Having spent the early part of the millennium (This one I ain't that old!) rocking the airwaves on TotalRock I can now be found presenting the MattCave every Friday night 9-Midnight under the stations new name www.bloodstockradio.com . Masochists amongst you can catch me telling bad jokes and reuniting photographers with lost lenses as the compère of the international London Tattoo Convention every summer. Inkredible!

Inferia – Grind Cumpaign (Great Dane)

These Finns have been pumping (giggedy) out their signature brand of pornodeath Grind since 1989. That is a helluva long time in such an extreme niche. In fact, I think that is over a century in PDG years.  This is only their seventh full length emission… Continue Reading →

The House – Horror Tribute Collection (Avantgarde)

Before I wore eyeliner. Before I wore upside down cross earrings to Scouts church parade.  Before the skulls, the long hair, the leather jackets, the pretending to worship Satan and the various hair dye jobs, (no wonder I am bald) and… Continue Reading →

Black Void – Antithesis (Nuclear Blast)

Hi my name is Matt and I am an idiot. “That is evident from your ramblings on this site Matt but why so this particular time?”.  Well gentle reader, when I asked for “Antithesis” the new album from White Void… Continue Reading →

Ufomammut – Fenice (Neurot)

A new album from Ufomammut is always a special thing. It’s already 5 years since their last “8” which took me on an interplanetary trip and earned 8.5 out of 10 from me. Well, you would have thought that a much-anticipated album would have led me to… Continue Reading →

Celestial Season – Mysterium I (Burning World Records)

Gelderland’s (A Knight’s Tale immediately sprang to mind!) Celestial Season are celebrating their thirtieth year. Thirty years of bastard heavy death doom filled with melancholy and pathos. Mysterium I follows the “comeback” album The Secret Teachings, which was their first full length in 20 years.   As… Continue Reading →

Hocico – Hyper Violent (Out Of Line)

Mexican industrial duo (indusduo? ) have been releasing music together since 1993 – hell of a long time for these two cousins Erk Aicrag and Racso Agroyam to be around each other pounding out cyberdog style sounds. The guys have been pretty prolific over the years and this, album 13… Continue Reading →

The Slumbering – Looking For Sorrow Within One’s Fear (Aesthetic Death)

The fact that I could not get the CD sent to play on my PC was a sign. This meant that I had to stick it in my CD player – you know like we used to in the old… Continue Reading →

Somali Yacht Club – The Space (Season of Mist)

As I listen to The Space, I chastise myself for a streak of ridiculous disappointment. I am heading off to Desertfest this week to redeem a ticket I bought in 2020. One of the bands I was looking forward to… Continue Reading →

WAN – AntiChristian Douchebags (Fallen Temple)

I may be nearing a half century but inside there is still the teenager that was filled with glee when finding pics of King Diamond in Metal Forces magazine and reading the blasphemous over the top lyrics of Venom and… Continue Reading →

Decasia – An Endless Feast for Hyenas (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Never has a label been more apt for a band. Decasia’s debut is HEAVY PSYCH baby from the get go. As soon as lion rumbles out of my speakers it whirls around as if whipped by the winds of the Sahara cloaked… Continue Reading →

Hex – Behold The Unlighted (Vertebrae)

When it comes to Death/Doom there are really only two questions. Does it Doom? Does it Death? Luckily when Bilbao’s Hex are put to this particular Spanish inquisition the answer is a resounding YES on both counts. This E.P. is only three… Continue Reading →

Friends of Hell – Friends of Hell (Rise Above)

Taz Danozoglou has a great pedigree and it surprised me that he seemed to be musically quiet for so long. Obviously he is known as a renowned tattooist and his time in Electric Wizard but I really really dug Satan’s Wrath whose “Galloping Blasphemy“… Continue Reading →

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