Category ALBUM
I think it is fair to say that the sudden announcement declaring the end of The Devil’s Blood came as a bit of a surprise and not a good one at all. I was honoured to have seen and photographed… Continue Reading →
For the last few years, it has been Stoner, Doom, and more down tempo metal that has been getting me to gigs, filling my shelves with CDs, and stopping me paying off my mortgage early for that matter. Lots of… Continue Reading →
This is a solo project for the Swedish songwriter, current Primal Fear guitarist and producer Magnus Karlsson, who for this record has gathered together some notable friends to sing on this majestic metal album. I say majestic as the songs… Continue Reading →
It came as a surprise to me to read some of the lukewarm reviews to Autopsy’s 2011 comeback album, ‘Macabre Eternal’. Although easy to understand both how and why fans would have such unrealistically high expectations, personally, I was blown… Continue Reading →
Deth Rok, from Ministry collaborator Aaron Havill, falls into a broad category of music that I would describe as come-down music. Or, more accurately, music that you should avoid – at all costs – listening to when on an actual… Continue Reading →
It’s all got a bit Handbags-at-dawn with Queensryche recently, the latest chapter being the Geoff Tate version rushing an album out to try and get the jump on this the “Wilton/Jackson/Rockenfeld” Queensryche. All this petty squabbling over the name does… Continue Reading →
Pest. Such a good name for a black metal band they used it (at least) twice. This is the long running Swedish band, now on their fourth full length but regretfully my first proper acquaintance with them. After the obligatory… Continue Reading →
I first found myself infected by Bitter Peace on a four band split called ‘New World Black Metal’ highlighting some of the nastiest scourges of the USBM scene. Their coruscating and hateful take on the style had a notable industrialised… Continue Reading →
It was a good decade and a half ago that I listened to Orphaned Land for the first time. I really enjoyed their death metal tinged with Middle Eastern spices. Well, Kobi Farhi’s death vocals are pretty much non-existent on… Continue Reading →
There are some albums that impress so much by their physical appearance that at the very least you know there is serious attention and involvement in your hands. This limited release is kind of special in its hand crafted presentation;… Continue Reading →
Death metal is such an over-saturated genre, even the sub-genres and sub-sub-genres have millions of sound-alike bands, all desperate to prove that there is something unique about them, something which separates them from the other growling, gargling, detuned lunatics. In… Continue Reading →
Damn me, but there must be something retro in the air these last 12 months or so. Whilst the popular ‘metal’ press are continuing to push the latest pop punk puppets and kerrapp neck tattooed shouters with exotically styled heads… Continue Reading →