Category ALBUM
Three years after the release of their debut, Fires in the Distance are back with their six song second album and their first with new drummer Jordan Rippe. The rest of the line-up remains unchanged with principal composer Yegor Savonin… Continue Reading →
Deathstars, leaders of the current milieu of gothic, industrial and electronic related metal have again peaked their heads above the parapet to give us another fun and memorable piece of metal that can have a club dancing within seconds. Everything… Continue Reading →
This nicely packaged album comes from Parisian band Moonreich, who have been plying their trade since 2008 and have released five albums including this one. The sleeve-work is probably the only nice element of it, as this is a black… Continue Reading →
This is my first encounter with the genre-fusing trio Trevor’s Head and we were off to a bad start. Initially, listening to their new album A View From Below, I kept wishing they would stick to punk and stop taking… Continue Reading →
Despite having been alive in no less than seven different consecutive decades (I had to check my maths, and damn, I wasn’t wrong!), I try not to be too set in my ways, and especially when it comes to music,… Continue Reading →
As band descriptions/tag dumps go, “metal analog synthesizer atmospheric black metal cyberpunk end of life mega city one” is at least three things: more than a little bit word salad-y, surprisingly accurate as press blurbs go, and: so far up… Continue Reading →
These Swedes last album ‘Zenith’ was a slight departure from the bands usual style and approach. Having come together again for ‘Nostalgia’ it’s not a case of re-hashing the older sound, to some extent there is more of the old… Continue Reading →
As I look back at my prior mournfully poor ramblings on this fine site that you are reading, I noticed that it is now at least a decade, yes a DECADE, since I started mentioning the beginnings a “Retro Rock… Continue Reading →
I’ve been listening to a good lot of dungeon synth music recently, so as synchronicity is high on my life path at the moment (ludicrously so) it wasn’t much of a surprise when this dropped into the review lists. So,… Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago, a certain Mr Steve Blackwood, he of…well, a multitude of bands in the UKBM scene here and there but most definitely of the rightly respected Old Corpse Road released the first album from his solo… Continue Reading →
So many Tygers Of Pan Tang album reviews I’ve read in the past 20 years start by referencing the band’s NWOBHM past, many choosing to try and draw comparisons with their early 80’s sound and not really focusing massively on… Continue Reading →
I am always grateful of receiving a release to review that purely sticks to one genre, no superfluous subgenres and whilst I adore all types of death metal Dead Chasm play it straight down the line, their deathly dealings hit… Continue Reading →