Category ALBUM
I have had the pleasure of listening to this album a lot over the last week due to reviewing in much shorter form for another publication. One thing I noticed on doing so is that it marks 40 years since… Continue Reading →
Long standing and enduring thrash veterans Vulcano have been around for around four decades and released eleven albums, plus a smattering of lives and EPs, previous to this latest effort. Whilst probably never attaining the same status as their compatriots… Continue Reading →
Hitting the world in 1989, Netherlands wrecking crew Dead Head have consistently delivered aggressive, classic thrash metal. Starting life in an era that dropped the big names, they’ve continued to fly the flag for extreme music and with “Slave Driver”,… Continue Reading →
With a couple of albums and a few EPs already out this third album by US band Dischordia is likely to divide the technical death metal world, purely because the album is so off the wall that describing it with… Continue Reading →
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 →
William Roussel aka Meyhnach aka Melancholic Lord of Torments aka Guru Dreadlock is a French multi-instrumentalist and vocalist and a man of many names and bands. He touted infamy as a member of Les Légions Noires, gaining notoriety for Mutiilation… Continue Reading →
After a 30-year break and resurgence in the live circuit 10-12 years ago, North East England’s NWoBHM legends Tysondog returned with their 2015 ‘Cry Havoc’ album. Fast forward and we have another album in the form of ‘Midnight’. “hoy your… Continue Reading →
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 →
As the band name and album title might suggest, here we’re heading into the realms of industrial, post-metal sludge and all that surrounds it. Although not a name previously known to me, Lament Cityscape have been around for a while,… Continue Reading →
Although “Road To Perdition” is this Croatian Metal band’s third album, founding guitarist Bruno Mičetić seems to have spent the past five years rebuilding Keops into his own vision to become the snarling, unyielding beast it now is. This is… Continue Reading →
Dear reader, let me take you back in time for a little lesson in Metal history. The year is 1980, and the scene is dominated by the young upstarts of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, and your humble… Continue Reading →
Before humanity had electricity, darkness was a far grander and more frightening state than it is today, and its grandiosity was additionally enhanced by man’s imagination. The strength of darkness, unweakened by electricity, illuminated only by the flickering light of… Continue Reading →