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This is a work of the imagination for the imagination. “What happens when you travel so far east looking for enlightenment that you’re your destination and are headed west again?” they ask. Inspired by the Wicker Man soundtrack, “Far West”… Continue Reading →
I am sure everyone has a list of bands, no doubt a good ten or so that they think “I should have heard this lot, I need to and will no doubt like them but they have always escaped me.”… Continue Reading →
This is a Canadian melodic death metal band on album number three, they have actually changed their style from the more blackened path that began at their inception. The opening few tracks are full of power and energy and there… Continue Reading →
Aha Mr Bean is back, nope not that one that would be silly! Not the one what got his head lopped off in Game Of Thrones either (and if that’s a spoiler, you are way behind). Nope we are talking… Continue Reading →
This is a massive two DVD set, a retrospective of the 2012 Full Moon Dog Festival which took place in Leeds in October. But it is so much more! The main DVD of the gig has various live performances and… Continue Reading →
“Steel, speed and destruction” is the summary given on Power Trip’s own page. Taking old school thrash metal values and combining them with punk hardcore seems to be about where this Texan band is at. Although I’m familiar with the… Continue Reading →
Masterplan are premier league Power Metal. There’s no getting around it. They were right from the start. Take a guitarist and drummer from Helloween, a bassist from Iron Saviour, the keyboardist from Children of Bodom and the unmistakably Metal voice… Continue Reading →
Without Black Flag most of the music you like would not exist! Sweeping statement maybe but as far as punk and hardcore is concerned they were one of the forerunners that were responsible for defining the style, certainly as far… Continue Reading →
Amusingly enough, about a month ago I ripped all my Septic Flesh & SepticFlesh CD’s to MP3 & put the former on a disc which I’ve been listening to in the car since then. So maybe I’m little biased before… Continue Reading →
Sometimes it’s re-acquainting yourself with the past that brings the present into sharpest relief; the state of true doom metal being the case in point here. True doom was assailed by the rise of stoner some years back, just as… Continue Reading →
Summoning more than any other band underline my theory that, far from being misanthropic scions of anti-human violence, the vast majority of black metal enthusiasts are Tolkien-obsessed, multi-sided-dice rolling geeks. This is NOT meant as a slur – after all,… Continue Reading →
Canadians Necronomicon have been doing the rounds of the blackened death metal scene for quite some time now, in fact they formed back in 1988. ‘Rise of the Elder Ones’ is their fourth full length studio album, and continuing their… Continue Reading →