Category ALBUM
Now I may not be the most dyed-in-the-wool punk out there, but I do enjoy a good old rattle of my small punk bones. I think the thing I look for most is that great punk or metal punk riotous… Continue Reading →
Well it’s all change in the Burning Point camp…actually it’s not ALL change – they have a new vocalist…which makes it a major change…or, if vocals aren’t that important to you, it’s just “a change” really isn’t it…shall I start… Continue Reading →
Armored Saint are a criminally overlooked band. Formed in 1982, the five piece have been slinging their cutting brand of heavy metal and thrash on and off for the past 33 years and are most known for being the band… Continue Reading →
Two hours, twenty minutes long. That’s what you’ll keep hearing in reference to ‘Shards of Silver Fade’ – two hours and twenty minutes. Yep, it’s a talking point – by anyone’s standards, this is a long, LONG old album and… Continue Reading →
Having enjoyed the 2008 debut, “Slave to Decay”, I was keen to hear this Swedish Black Metal Troupe’s sophomore release “Decreation”. Two releases since their unholy incarnation in 2004 is hardly prolific, but I guess it’s better than regurgitating the… Continue Reading →
Dana Schechter is the muse behind Insect Ark and music is not her only forte as looking her up reveals that she is also a keen visual artist and animator as well as having ties to various projects such as… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Linköping, Sweden, The Great Discord are a rather interesting bunch. Influenced by classic prog like King Crimson and more contemporary artists such as Meshuggah and Dream Theater, the Swedish five piece have an album which touches on a… Continue Reading →
No-one could ever accuse The Meads of Asphodel of being boring. The formula is sound: black metal at the core but with no limitations on imagination or range. Who can forget the snappily titled “Behold the Kindred Battle Carcasses Strewn… Continue Reading →
The Spanish four pieces first release is a wonderfully accessible one. Conquerors beyond the Stars sits somewhere slap bang in the middle between both generic and extreme metal, possessing the infectious riffs of bands like Devildriver and Machine Head with… Continue Reading →
‘Shock/Deny’ is the second album release from this Belgian band, and just like the first, ‘Acceptance/Rebuild’, it comprises of just two long tracks of black/doom/sludge/drone/ambient. But this time round, with decidedly better production values. Once again the band deal with… Continue Reading →
Self-releasing all but one of their first five releases, these fly-by-wire monsters from Ohio are a bit of a rare find. With few having heard their suffocating wall-of-death sound before, it’s a delight to finally wrap ears around it. Well,… Continue Reading →
Extreme music has long since transcended the standard four-guys-on-a-stage, dressed to impress and entertain for an hour or two on a Saturday night. Ok, maybe that Rubicon was crossed way back in the 1960s or 1970s – maybe even earlier,… Continue Reading →