Category ALBUM
When one of Europe’s strongest death metal bands, who can literally do no wrong when it comes to churning out powerful grinding death metal, unleash their latest EP onto the world, it’s sufficient enough to say that the expectations for… Continue Reading →
The way that this starts off with its creepy, death-like whisperings and underproduction values suggests this is some black metal piece from the early 1990s. This horror-like ghastliness in fact comes from Canada. Brutal drumming and razor-sharp guitar sounds mingle… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Canyon of The Skull are a stoner doom two piece, featuring Adrian Voorhies (anyone else think this is a kickass surname? Maybe he plays in a hockey mask…) on drums and Erik Ogershok on guitar. This… Continue Reading →
Kind of breaking my own rules here of not covering reissues (too much new music) by download but truth is I have been on a Christian Death-trip lately and wanted to have the excuse to properly listen to an album… Continue Reading →
Time for a dose of stoner metal by a band with a name that sounds like the menu in a cheap steakhouse, but which actually has an impressive pedigree. These boys famously won a battle of the bands contest in… Continue Reading →
Sludge from Hull featuring an ex member of Winterfylleth. There are no echoes of Everything But the Girl, Kingmaker (I used to live in Hull) or Black Metal here. This is 27 minutes of fuzzy sludge. Big riffs backed by… Continue Reading →
In the land of mathematical formulae, Finnish + Pagan + Black Metal will never equal warmth or cosiness, yet while the ambient beginning of this atmospheric adventure suggests cold winds, there is an alluring mysticism in the lapping waters. “Descension”… Continue Reading →
If ever there was a grind super-group then Venomous Concept are it! Kevin Sharp, Dan Lilker, Shane Embury, Danny Herrera. These fella’s musical pedigrees are immense and, joining these heavy hitters on this, their third LP is John Cooke (Corrupt… Continue Reading →
Prog funeral doom? I guess it had to happen even in this most conservative and tectonic of genres – here with elements of keyboard abuser Jean Michel Jarre, those other serial French synth talents Air and black metal hook machine… Continue Reading →
It’s always nice to get the lyrics, which I did when receiving this cd. I opened the booklet to be greeted with “Stay alive, you must fit in to survive, you must battle when you’re right, you must GROW SOME… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I come across a release which feels like any lingering positivity and joy for life has been sucked out. The increasingly abundant crop of post-rock, post black metal bands such as Harakiri For The Sky, Fall of Efrafa and… Continue Reading →
The heavy metal fires stoked on the West Coast of the USA decades ago are being kept well lit it seems. LA’s Ancient Spell bring together the best of the early ‘80’s Californian thrash scene and doom it all up… Continue Reading →