Category ALBUM
Well folks, it is time to be 100% open and honest. Lord of Confusion is a band I’d never heard of, but after a wee visit to their page, I was happy to let the editor send me their album… Continue Reading →
Twenty four long and somewhat spartan years after inception, Copenhagen’s Black/Death Metal juggernaut Strychnos have finally unleashed their debut album upon the world. Entitled ‘A Mother’s Curse’ and featuring eight gruelling odes of intensity and belligerence, and has been released… Continue Reading →
Right I’m not going to bullshit you and pretend that I am completely au fait with the current UK punk scene. In fact even back in time I lived in one of those truly shitty English small towns where tribes… Continue Reading →
As clever as the title is by this veteran death metal act, there have been a number of other bands using it either as album titles or song titles as this release is the band’s first since 2005’s ‘Reclaim The… Continue Reading →
A little bit of unravelling was necessary with this one as although the two ladies and two gents from Orbel are from France and indeed the PR blurb about this album was in French, the language adopted here for song-titles… Continue Reading →
South New Jersey natives 9 Dead take their moniker in tribute to (or mockery of… I have no idea which) the nine victims of a mosh pit stampede that crushed nine people to death at a Pearl Jam show in… Continue Reading →
If you like a diet of blackened metal, Mord A Stigmata will do nicely. They’ve been doing it for a while too, going back to the mid 00s, since when this Polish band has released six full albums including the… Continue Reading →
Although the cover to the album at hand looks a lot like that to Kall’s last LP Brand, and although one could easily jump to conclusions and expect similar sounds and attitudes, it’s not DSBM that’s hiding beneath this sad… Continue Reading →
Guitar wizard, Toby Knapp has resurrected Onward after a lengthy break. The passing of original singer, Michael Grant saw the band take an extended break and they now return with album number five, “Of Epoch And Inferno” featuring new singer… Continue Reading →
Until today I never knew that such a thing existed. A perfect melding of 80’s horror synth and grisly Death/Grind that when activated produces one of the silliest and most heart warming spectacles that any self respecting gore fiend could… Continue Reading →
I have been looking forward to this it should be said. I’m a fan of the band, love their intense live performances and they are interesting people to boot. Consisting of Shayan (vocals, guitar and also a fascinating esoteric podcast… Continue Reading →
Certain musical adventures, outputs, meanderings, experiments, trials, tribulations, and exercises in ego massaging are able, in certain circumstances, to fly under the radar and generally considered, reviewed, and appreciated from a musicality perspective rather than with any preconceived notions of… Continue Reading →