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Back at our favourite former Grindhouse cinema for a top bill on a freezing cold evening. Thankfully the train strikes don’t seem to have had a huge impact, as the show has sold out and it’s already packed as local… Continue Reading →
Getting anything from Comatose Music is always a joy, generally their output is a resounding success. Couple this with Texan Brutal Death Metal energy and surely we have the makings of something great. Today we’re talking about Stabbing (the band,… Continue Reading →
Portuguese Black Metal band Mallus Spiritus trace their lineage back to the 90’s and a few quietly released demos. Now, thirty years on and with a lifetime of experience under their collective bullet belts, they have returned with a debut… Continue Reading →
It took me a while to write this review due to ever increasing work commitments, but that meant that I had time to fully appreciate and inwardly digest this majestic beauty as I revisited it, being smothered more each time… Continue Reading →
They started off as a chaser to a main pint of bands such as Caronte, Forgotten Tomb and Death SS but over a few albums Whiskey Ritual have become a drinking session in their own right. What they have thrown… Continue Reading →
A very quick debut album from a Colombian trio who have relocated to London. So quick in fact that at twenty-one minutes I’d be tempted to call it an EP. Imperial Execration and their three members are originally from Bogata… Continue Reading →
2022 has not been quite the full-on disaster movie of the last few years, aliens have not landed and the dead have not come back to inherit the earth. Whilst one has the feeling of impending doom and these are… Continue Reading →
Worcester, Massachusetts five piece High Command are the latest in a long line of modern thrash acts who are trying to keep the wild and untamed spirit of its origins alive. Instead of the over-produced efforts from some, High Command… Continue Reading →
Here Shaam Larein go round sticking knives into the world, which is how “Sticka en kniv i världen” translates. It’s a world of mystery, certainly stylistically as this “Goth-tinged doom rock band” promises nocturnal post-punk atmospheres and avant-garde metal. Spooky… Continue Reading →
Not sure how I swiped some symphonic metal from under Mr Barker’s nose but I did. I was intrigued by these fifteen year plus Italian veterans because I genuinely hadn’t a clue about them but they started as a Death… Continue Reading →
The fourth release from the truer-than-true metal warriors from Keighley. It’s fair to say that I am a big fan of Arkham Witch (and The Lamp of Thoth before them), and I think every one of their releases has been… Continue Reading →
The artist behind this debut album makes no pretence that he is doffing his cap to bands that have had an impact on him, among them Testament, Strapping Young Lad, Slayer, Annihilator, Pantera and Meshuggah. Martijn Balsters, the artist in… Continue Reading →