Category ALBUM
‘Enkoimesion’, a lilting intro and then like drapes being pulled back ‘Black Blacker Than Black’ swaggers in. There those rich crooning tones of Ike Vil sweep in with the hook riddle deathrock riff and gorgeous backing vocals. A sardonic wit… Continue Reading →
Well, while not perhaps the first band to merge the ferocious d-beat energy of Discharge with the all-conquering guitar sound of the HM-2 pedal, Industrial Puke do have both an amusing name, and a knack for not outstaying their welcome…. Continue Reading →
Whilst in the world of classical music, instrumental pieces are the norm, in the rock genre it can be a hard thing to pull off. There is a pretty much programmed expectation in the listener of ‘verse, chorus, verse’, as… Continue Reading →
Do you remember (I used to fuck ) People Like You Records? I think it is still going but back at the turn of the millennium there seemed to be a new punk ‘n’ roll album out every week from them. Y’ know the sorta dirty rawking affair that your… Continue Reading →
Cattle Decapitation couldn’t have released a better tenth album than this, the band has continually set benchmark after benchmark in death metal whether it has been their protogrind beginnings right to the obsidian darkness of the more progressive ‘Death Atlas’… Continue Reading →
Along with live drummer and keyboard player 2nd Face is primarily the project of German “sound magician” Vincent Uhlig and he has been solidifying the successor album to 2017 release ‘Nemesis’ over the last 5-years. Not having heard the project… Continue Reading →
From the admirable ViciSolum label comes Ring of Gyges with this album. I hadn’t heard of this band previously, but on the face of it they’re right up my street. Peddling progressive metal with intriguing “odd rhythmic patterns”, the stated… Continue Reading →
That popular British saying about waiting ages for a bus and then two arrive at once, suddenly seems pertinent to fantasy Power Metal bands. Last year the UK brought us Fellowship’s debut and now Battle Born unleash their first full-length… Continue Reading →
One of many things I love about metal as a whole, both as a metalhead generally, and specifically as a reviewer, is the infinite and ever-evolving variety and diversity of it. The uninitiated, who tend to hyperfocus on the loudest,… Continue Reading →
Why? It’s a good question but not one I often ask in the context of an album; the why should be obvious. Because it’s what they were moved to do, musically speaking regardless of whether I like it, dislike it… Continue Reading →
Danish death metal? Did I hear that right? Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Konkhra (forever one of the most over-looked metal bands of the 90’s), but outside of a couple of bands (Hatesphere spring to mind), Denmark… Continue Reading →
Sitting at my place of work for a change and rather than staring at the flora and fauna and phalanxes of ants and battalions of birds in my glorified shed at the bottom of my garden, I am in the… Continue Reading →