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The greeting is a burst of modern-sound technical progressive djent. In fact it’s everything that’s been in vogue in recent times. I hadn’t read any of the script so I just took in this riot of progressive colour, which reminded… Continue Reading →
l guess I like classic horror (thereby excluding all torture porn/slasher shit or mainstream random family haunted by irrelevant mess with added obvious creepy kid cookie-cutter flicks.) From serious, scary weirdshit to big bubblegum and candyfloss shlock outings. Particularly the… Continue Reading →
There is sometimes a load of old shite talked about “guilty pleasures”, with dyed in the wool serious musos talking about the “guilty pleasure” of liking music that is anything less than underground and as kvlt as fuck. Well firstly,… Continue Reading →
A traditional Swiss folk band with links to the fabulous Eluveitie? How hard can that be to review? “Yeah, no problem Mr. Editor, send that one over and I’ll sort it”. Bollocks. How I soon regretted those ill-chosen words. All… Continue Reading →
Geordie metallers Hellion Rising have been kicking around since 2012 and at first, given the name of the band, I as many who haven’t heard of the band before may be forgiven that they are a death metal band. How… Continue Reading →
Not entirely sure what is going to happen when I try to post this one up and it may mean reverting to the title in English but I shall at least try to keep things authentic for this one man… Continue Reading →
Manes undoubtedly come from the Norwegian planet, inhabited by Atrox, Green Carnation, Audrey Horne and others, where life is seen from an odd and oblique angle. My only previous exposure to this band, who have now released four albums and… Continue Reading →
Now this got me excited I must say – ‘true’ heavy metal citing such legendary acts as Cirith Ungol, Uriah Heep and Warlord as influences, cloaked in the sort of obscure, dusty post-NWOBHM atmosphere that I personally find so intoxicating,… Continue Reading →
This one almost got overlooked and it would have been a shame if it did as it is really rather good. The problem is that information other than what we have been told on the press release is impossible to… Continue Reading →
Having formed in 2005, Trident decided to pack it in in 2010. After a 5 year hiatus they have returned with a 3-track EP. The Finnish quartet from Porvoo has made ‘Jezebel’ a thematic EP in which a time is… Continue Reading →
Redemption, formed in 2000, are an LA-based progressive metal band who dabble in combining the melodious sounds of the old 70s bands with the contemporary. There’s plenty of moments here that will have you recalling monsters like Rainbow or Rush,… Continue Reading →
Think of Australia, think of rock music, and probably the first, and for some only, band you’ll think of would be veteran stadium fillers AC/DC, or maybe their young clones, sorry, potential successors Airbourne. To be added to that list… Continue Reading →