Category ALBUM
From Dust to Rust … my first encounter with Irish doomsters was their 2001 album “Dust”, after the band came to my attention on recommendation and I bought it. This one is now album number 6. Inevitable comparisons can be… Continue Reading →
I am ashamed to say that I always overlooked The Casualties. I think I used to see them as an American cartoon version of my fave homegrown bands. More fool me! These New Yorkers don’t give a fuck about the… Continue Reading →
What’s that all about? After a year of reviews dominated by European acts, many hailing from the home of the Viking hordes, the first two albums of 2016 I have to review come from Vancouver. Maybe the muse that seems… Continue Reading →
Norway isn’t a country you would predominantly associate with metal which wasn’t of the grim, kvlt and frostbitten variety, but thanks to bands like Lonely Kamel and Audrey Horne, this is slowly changing. El Caco (Spanish for Thief) join the… Continue Reading →
I’ve begun to think of German Power Metallers Brainstorm as the Sheepdogs of Metal. Look, bear with me – they are quick, powerful, energetic, reliable, resilient, occasionally unpredictable, but generally spending time with them is ultimately rewarding. See? OK, the… Continue Reading →
The last release I reviewed by this band ‘Undead in Leather’, is a fine effort and very much reigniting the UK scene with a hefty dirty approach akin to the old German thrash scene. On ‘Black Sacrament’ there is definitely… Continue Reading →
Formed in Brazil in 2010, Bode Preto – or Black Goat in their native Portuguese – have previously inflicted one EP and a full-length on the world. Given their origin and image, it would be easy to jump to the… Continue Reading →
I suspect I’ve got issues because I’m always wary of albums with nine three/four minute tracks and a thirteen minute track at the end. Seeing the band’s name being written back to front didn’t impress me either, but benefit of… Continue Reading →
This poor little cub has been left on our reviews list all alone for some time, unloved with no interest and I felt sorry for it. A few days before release into the wild record shops I thought I best… Continue Reading →
If ever there was a band that has been badly used by the internet it is Immortal: Whether it’s those interminable mostly unfunny ‘memes’ or cracks about the Abbath crab-walk, the internet has mostly ignored the one bright, blazing fact… Continue Reading →
This album is a return to the past with the re-release of the Icelanders’ 2010 album, which signalled the move from a black/death style to the more haunting and evocative style which characterised the excellent “The Freak is Alive” (2015)…. Continue Reading →
My journey with ARP started with a metal hammer 7 inch in ’89, the ex-Steeler (Deu) guitarist has made himself part of the establishment via a consistent level of releases over the years as a band of the same name,… Continue Reading →