Category ALBUM
It is an unfortunate fact that real life keeps on interfering with one of my true passions, namely live music, and assorted circumstances have conspired to prevent me from catching Ruby The Hatchet live during one of their forays to… Continue Reading →
It’s always a pleasure to hear when a band switches a couple of members, finds their own sound and throws an album out there with renewed intent and focus. It would be a real shame right now if I said… Continue Reading →
Since 2018 this Maryland Crossover/Thrash Metal horde have been honing their craft through multiple EP releases, as well as a demo earlier this year. Now though this US five-piece have unleashed their debut album and they’re doing it through one… Continue Reading →
Thanks to this, I discovered what a thotcrime is, but sticking to the matter in hand the band by this name is a cybergrind group, taking its influence from grindcore, mathcore and hyperpop amongst others. When I saw this album’s… Continue Reading →
Drawing inspiration “from black and death metal to djent and hardcore”, Cabal embark upon their third album. I’ll add “melodic hooks” to that. It’s true that pungent death metal djent hardcore is their game, witness the opening song of this… Continue Reading →
A second album from Turkish brutal death metallers Inhuman Depravity, one that arrives seven years after their debut ‘Nocturnal Carnage By The Unholy Desecrator’ and continues more or less where that debut left off. The bands bone shattering brutality is… Continue Reading →
A sixth studio album from Finnish band Antipope and their first in collaboration with US label Moribund Records who have unveiled ‘Rex Mundi’ on CD. This Oulu based four-piece started life as a Black Metal band but over the years… Continue Reading →
The time has come oh timid reader, to talk of many things, of Spice Girls, Biebers, Kanye Wests, the cabbages who sing…Erm sorry but this is not the easiest of things to approach and my head is a little bit… Continue Reading →
This Canadian band hold a special place in metal history for me. Their ‘Livin’ Fast’ demo tape and the following ‘Burn the Night’ debut album are both fantastic. This was also the last band I saw in London before the… Continue Reading →
Nighted made me feel old. The intro to ‘Aeons’ the first offering is distorted electronica which plunges into a hellbent riff and suddenly I’m back to early Necromantia circa Scarlet Evil Witching Black; great driving black metal with weird electronic… Continue Reading →
Hailing from the frozen tundra and icy rugby league pitches of Kingston Upon Hull, burst forth a melting pot of downturned, jagged riffs and flared jean flapping in the form of Battalions, who return with this their fourth album following… Continue Reading →
When the esteemed editor of the site you are currently reading told me I was to receive an album by a “True Norwegian” band where each track was laden with demonic imagery and anti-religious bile I was worried that I… Continue Reading →