Category ALBUM
Before I begin, I must make my apologies. My usual sense of bonhomie seems to have abandoned ship this morning, as I slink off to the shed at the bottom of the garden and begin to try and make sense… Continue Reading →
Portugal has churned out some great thrash acts over the past 20 years. Amongst the bands in this wave, Prayers Of Sanity, Revolution Within and Switchtense have offered us some fine thrash assaults which have had a good variety of… Continue Reading →
Nothing brings more satisfaction to a music nerd than following a band from their beginnings, perceiving their potential, and then seeing them rise and succeed. Sanhedrin is such a band for me. I came across them by pure chance, having… Continue Reading →
Sylvaine has quietly crept upon the underground music community building her reputation on solid musicianship and jaw dropping live performances. ‘Nova’ is the Norwegian vocalist and multi instrumentalist’s 4th album and it is a real gem. Built around Kathrine’s impressive vocal… Continue Reading →
I’m a sucker for gimmicks and the paranormal / weird, so the band we’re talking about today tick a lot of boxes for me. Basically, I probably know more about totally useless UFO history than I do real world history…. Continue Reading →
For no less than 32 years now Kirk Windstein has been leading Crowbar into battle, armed with a sonic arsenal of weaponised riffs that can crush concrete into dust. As such, when their impending twelfth album ‘Zero and Below’ arrived… Continue Reading →
This Toulouse quintet have been pretty busy for a doom band. A Nocturnal Crossing is their second full length release since inception in 2016. What they offer is fuzz laden psyche/doom rock with a touch of desert stoner and Radiohead…. Continue Reading →
It’s good to see Czech band Godless Truth back like an old friend. Some years ago I saw them play somewhere in North London, possibly supporting Vomit Remnants at that pub at Archway, and liked their brutal style so much… Continue Reading →
The Australian hard rockers return with this, their fifth album. I reviewed their last album, “Memoirs of a Rat Queen”, and found it to be an enjoyable, if not entirely addictive slab of rock n’ roll. I have to admire… Continue Reading →
It’s a fine balance with Black metal between orthodoxy and occultism turning into Satanic schtick and what can only be described as clown-shoes when so called serious intentions turn into pantomime. I wouldn’t say German band Schrat who take their… Continue Reading →
The grisly sleeve artwork and the much-used pictures of the forest in the gloom set the scene from Absorption, a band with a demo and a split to its name previously. With it comes the promise that the band has… Continue Reading →
Austrian’s Venator are a traditional heavy metal band quite known in the underground. Their 2020 split with Germany’s Angel Blade (now Acid Blade) was a great introduction. These songs were also released in their own right as the ‘Paradiser’ EP… Continue Reading →