Category ALBUM
Legendary NWOBHM band Elixir called it quits recently following a successful reformation over the last 12 years or so. From that band Guitarist Phil Denton and vocalist Paul Taylor have formed Midnight Messiah (a track from Elixir’s last studio release… Continue Reading →
My last experience of Belgians Slecht wasn’t a particularly inspiring one, as I reviewed their very first demo “Triumph of Death” around 6 years ago for Metal Team UK. The fact I didn’t recall a lot about it is explained… Continue Reading →
I’ve grown to hate the term ‘industrial’. Being able to remember the heyday of real industrial when Throbbing Gristle, Chrome and (early) Cabaret Voltaire were the avante-garde, then the dirty mutant metal infected siblings of Ministry, Godflesh or Front Line… Continue Reading →
As far as I remember, Memory Garden were one of the better known band’s in a 90’s Swedish Metal movement. Along with Memento Mori, Tad Morose, Morgana Lefay and Abstrakt Algebra, it was all a kind of Dark/Power/Doom thing that… Continue Reading →
“Are they still going?” was my initial reaction when seeing that Heaven Shall Burn have released a new album. In fact, they started out in 1996, since when they have touched on but haven’t been an integral part of my… Continue Reading →
Deicide, Morbid Angel and Six Feet Under all come from Tampa, Florida. So do Dark Sermon, who have gone on record as claiming to have redefined heavy metal. That’s quite a claim. What’s missing is the evidence. This quartet sound… Continue Reading →
A number of conversations regarding Amorphis over the past couple of years have brought up the same quite unusual fact, being that there are still people out there who miss the vocals of Pasi Koskinen. I don’t think many people… Continue Reading →
This was my first experience of Woe, a USBM band who feature none other than former Krieg drummer Chris Grigg (and now also Shawn Eldridge of Funebrarum/Disma on drums, though it seems that he doesn’t feature on this, their third… Continue Reading →
Not had anything from the lovely corner of the pit that is Hell’s Headbangers for a little while so this was welcomed into my abode. This is done by J, one man black metal arsenal from Australia and ex-everyone down… Continue Reading →
This is the second album by Sweden’s One Inch Giant and is the sequel to “Malva“, which is one of the tracks on this one. Considered less “safe” than its predecessor, this riff-inspired progressive work with deep stoner influences has… Continue Reading →
With a lively crash of thunder this Polish Culte flings open the crypt doors once again, makes a racket for an hour and creeps back home just as the sun begins to rise. This is dramatic horror fuelled black metal… Continue Reading →
Righto, I must first admit in the last few years on average I have bought more stoner/doom albums a fortnight then I have bought thrash albums per year. I don’t have any particular reason for this fact apart from the… Continue Reading →