Category ALBUM
Newsflash, Death Metal is cool again guys! Bands like 200 Stab Wounds, Frozen Soul, Fuming Mouth and Celestial Sanctuary appear to be paving some sort of new way. Towing a line between the modern and extremely popular Hardcore scene and… Continue Reading →
I admit to dithering with this one as these Norse non-conformists have thrown a bit of a curveball at us and it is an album that needs a little deciphering to get to grips with. One thing I did know… Continue Reading →
Belgium like all other European nations has birthed its fair share of atmospheric black metal over the past decade or so, when the genre became particularly popular. But like all metal genres, for every gem of audible beauty there are… Continue Reading →
Exploring themes as various as modern-day warmongering, space colonisation and declining mental health, progressive black metal band Svneatr are here releasing their third album. Solid and heavy is “Mechanical Wolves”, which gets us under way. This is a heavy metal… Continue Reading →
Missiles from Malmö, Sweden, want to Weaponize Tomorrow, and rightly so, because without weapons Tomorrow might not survive. The future, if we are to have one, certainly needs help defending itself. However, there is one small problem. How can it… Continue Reading →
I was meant to see Bat back in 2020. They were on a bill in London with Napalm Death, Rotten Sound and EyHateGod. I decided not to go in the end. I was due to see all the bands later… Continue Reading →
Riot (the V has something to do with the number of vocalists or something) have been around since before most of you were born. 1975. First release a couple of years later. I’m old and even I only took note… Continue Reading →
I probably should have heard of this Italian band, after all they have been around for a decade but they had not hit my radar until they joined the Season Of Mist roster. It was none other than Phil H… Continue Reading →
Sometimes, when you review albums, it seems to take forever to pick apart a release enough to get some idea of where its creators are coming from. After all, a big part of reviewing – especially in metal – is… Continue Reading →
‘Giallo’, noun. A genre of Italian cinema of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and less frequently, supernatural horror elements with a heyday from the late nineteen sixties to mid nineteen seventies. As starts to… Continue Reading →
Utter filth! It should be banned. This is what Mary Whitehouse was trying to protect us from. She was right. Won’t someone think of the children!???? Don’t worry I have not taken leave of my senses and also, fear not… Continue Reading →
It’s amazing when you hear a band for the first time, then discover that they’ve been around for over 30 years. Granted there was a major hiatus between their second album in 2003 and this one. The three core members… Continue Reading →