Category ALBUM
Australia may not be the first place you think of when you go looking for metal, but it seems to be the case that it’s quality over quantity where they are concerned. Take Rise of Avernus for example. These Sydney… Continue Reading →
D-Rei. Doremi Fasol Latido? Maybe I’m over thinking the title of this album but when opening track ‘Stare At The Water’ hits its stride and Black Space Riders heavily Hawkwind influenced space rock bursts out it really was my first… Continue Reading →
If you like your black metal to feel particularly barbed with spiteful venom then you are totally in the right place with Finnish mob Graveborne. Their debut album ‘Pure Negativity’ made their intentions clear on release in 2011 and listening… Continue Reading →
This is a promising US band who took their name from a darker Deep Purple tune and it’s fair to say that dark riffs is their thing if last years ‘Shades of Black’ EP is anything to go by. There… Continue Reading →
Forming in 2011, Polish three piece The Dead Goats is made up of members of blackened/deathly crew Abused Majesty, as well as Neuropathia (the prolific purveyors of quality death grind). This is only the second release from this relatively new… Continue Reading →
Who fancies a nice, big, juicy steak? If you’ve got your hand up then allow me to point you in the direction of Colossus Of Destiny. With a band-name that comes from a Melvins’ live album and being bona fide… Continue Reading →
Stockholm has produced a lot of great bands over the years and Sister are another act to add to the Swedish capital’s resume. This four piece have the sort of sound that “ I used to Fuck People Like you… Continue Reading →
There’s a clue on Stroszek’s Facebook where it is written that the band’s influences come from “highways, trains, gas stations, hotel rooms”. As you may gather, “Wild Years of Remorse and Failures” is no barrel of laughs, nor is it… Continue Reading →
OK, so this is a rather daunting proposition – one 19-minute track bringing together the raw, bass-heavy black metal obscurity of Beglium’s Alkerdeel with the sickening noisescapes of Gnaw Their Tongues. It’s certainly an intriguing idea – Alkerdeel have been… Continue Reading →
Buy it! Will that do as a review? No? Oh well; time to expand upon that simple statement into a review of the latest CD offering of the metal power trio that is Grand Magus. For year on year they… Continue Reading →
Sometimes it is so nice to just play an album that takes little thought about and gels straight away as it is an exercise in simplicity rather than being convoluted and impenetrable. That is exactly what I expected with Shine… Continue Reading →
A Norwegian Rock n Roll band? Hmmmm….. wait!! Before you throw it back in my face, let me just point out that Shagrath from Dimmu is in the band! Yep! Who knew the wee fella had a burning desire to… Continue Reading →