Category ALBUM
At the risk of getting drawn into a debate about what constitutes ‘proper’ heavy metal, I present to you exhibit A –Canada’s Striker. Exhilarating and direct, these guys could not possibly provide us with a more perfect example of one… Continue Reading →
Nordland are a one man UK black metal band masterminded by Vorh and this will be their first release having previously been issued in extremely limited form as a CD-r. This version also arrived on CD-r noted in marker pen… Continue Reading →
Meshuggah-worship comes in many forms. Front of the queue, bowl in hand, was a young Misha Mansoor. Naturally, he went on to start his personal project, Bulb, and form the band Periphery and the kind of math-heavy, palm-muted power chords… Continue Reading →
Tempestuous Fall. Another new name and one wrapped in grandeur and Classical allusion. Just a little peek behind the thick curtains and we catch a glimpse of the robed mastermind behind the heavy sobriquet; it is father Hades himself, the… Continue Reading →
It has been a long time since DDP’s debut ‘DDP 4 Life’, although it will see a re-release via Mascot this year but here we have ‘Death Sentence’. This is a second full length album from this Bay Area Thrash… Continue Reading →
Paul Speckmann, mastermind (if you’ll excuse the pun) of Chicago’s Death Strike and Abomination, returns to blast the world with another exercise in old-school death metal; ‘The New Elite’ marking album number eleven for Master. Consisting of the same line-up… Continue Reading →
There are a number of adjectives I could apply to describe this work by The Chant from Finland– to start let’s go for calm, dreamy, atmospheric, sinister and progressive. Played in a post-rock style with a great deal of colour,… Continue Reading →
Grave Digger are releasing this EP as an taster for their forthcoming album ‘Clash of the Gods’, these Germans are one of the originators of this power metal sound, I personally hold their first three releases, when they were musically… Continue Reading →
I was genuinely surprised to discover that `Death Hammer’ is actually Flayed Disciple’s first full length album. For a debut, it is incredibly professional, accomplished and polished, as well as visceral and intense. It is also a genuinely authentic-sounding slab… Continue Reading →
Now this is an intriguing split: three songs from Legendary Japanese blackthrash fiends Abigail spliced together with seven from up and coming UK deathcrust squad Winds Of Genocide, and all wrapped in a superb black and white cover by SICKNESS… Continue Reading →
Fresh from the immediate and miserable impact of the latest Manowar effort I found myself in dire need of something, anything, to bolster my belief that traditional heavy metal is not going to forever torture me with disappointment. I held… Continue Reading →
Ne Obliviscaris translates to “lest we forget”, which in many ways is apt considering that they largely disappeared off the radar following one well received demo way back in the mists of time that was 2007. Now, after five years… Continue Reading →