Category ALBUM
Dispensing a brutal form of technical death metal, this is the experienced German band’s fourth full album release. Fire and brimstone are guaranteed. There’s no surprise element here – it’s as advertised so heavy, hard, brutal and technical. It’s the… Continue Reading →
“SPIRIT ADRIFT’s gimmick is simple: there is no gimmick,” says the band’s mastermind, Nate Garrett. “Just great songs, great heavy riffs, catchy parts that make you want to bang your head and uplifting parts that make you want to fly… Continue Reading →
A super group of sorts, Sweden’s CYHRA deliver their third long player, “The Vertigo Trigger”. Following on from 2017’s “Letters To Myself” and 2019’s “No Halos In Hell”, they find themselves exploring darker territory. Formed by Amaranthe vocalist Jake E… Continue Reading →
Not all religions and beliefs portray hell as a fiery furnace, indeed some traditions describe it as a frozen bleak wasteland. That’s certainly the impression this Polish duo musically convey and entering into their brand of darkness will ensure that… Continue Reading →
First, I’d like to recognise what the band has done here. Often I’ll receive an album with a reference to an important but not universally known piece of history. The band might be lucky if I know of the events,… Continue Reading →
Isn’t it funny how when someone not into metal asks what music you’re into and you just say ‘metal’ (OK I usually say ‘loud and ‘orrible’), but if a metalhead asks you go into subgenres? I mean I like traditional… Continue Reading →
There has been a foreshadowing of what’s to come from ‘Prosaic’ since the release of Mizmor’s collaborative album ‘Myopia’ with Thou last year. The one man blackened drone doom project has been around for over a decade, despite this ‘Prosiac’… Continue Reading →
If you have a member from each of Threshold, Within Temptation, Darkwater and the Devin Townsend Band, as Oblivion Protocol do, then it’s fair to regard this band as a supergroup. There’s even Threshold’s stellar guitarist Karl Groom on here…. Continue Reading →
Sometimes life would be so much easier if things were just put into simple pigeon holes, a statement that applies to all aspects of life, let alone music, and its assorted subgenres. Maybe there was a long lost halycon past… Continue Reading →
Time to step into the musical apiary here, hopefully it will be sweet and we won’t get stung. Mind you it would not be surprising if the German quartet got a few barbed hooks into us, after all we are… Continue Reading →
This album is described as a “volatile mix of nu-metal, hardcore and metalcore”. The follow-up to the “Bitter Picture” EP, it is produced, mixed and mastered by Connor Sweeney, formerly of Loathe who UK TechFest attendees will know. Starting with… Continue Reading →
There are a number of aspects that strike you about this third release from US death metal act Dead And Dripping, a solo project that is the sole brainchild of the exceptionally talented Evan Daniele. Firstly the logo, which I… Continue Reading →