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GWAR & Party Cannon – London Dome 18/8/22

If you have watched the recent documentary This Is GWAR, the one most important thing you should have taken away with you is the fact that “the world needs GWAR.” Theirs is a lesson of survival against the odds and… Continue Reading →

Phantom Spell – Immortal’s Requiem (Wizard Tower)

This is a solo project of Kyle McNeil, the frontman of UK heavy metal band Seven Sisters. Here, McNeil is exploring his love for prog. Undoubtedly, many elements will be familiar to many Seven Sisters fans. These include infectious vocal… Continue Reading →

Bong-Ra – Meditations (Tartarus Records)

The first 20 years of Bong-Ra’s existence were spent as a breakcore electronic music project. In recent years, founder Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, The Answer Lies in the Black Void) has switched gears towards a more doom metal inspired sound…. Continue Reading →

Child of Caesar – Spirit and Liberation (DR Music)

An album influenced by 90s gothic metal with punk and black metal influences is on the table here. Hailing from Germany, this is the band’s second album release. A dark melodic flow greets us. The withering guitar chorus line sounds… Continue Reading →

Autaar & 404 – In de Kiem Gesmoord (S/R)

Experimental soundscapes and drone here from this collaboration borne out of that pesky pandemic. Autaar is German artist Mark Lindhout and 404 is likeminded Dutchman Joost Van Ophem. The title of the release translates to ‘nipped in the bud’ and… Continue Reading →

Sigh – Shiki (Peaceville)

By album number twelve most fans of Sigh should be well aware that taking anything for granted is a foolish folly. I was well aware that even a week’s intensive listening here was not going to do more than scratch… Continue Reading →

Tomb Of Finland – Across The Barren Fields (Uprising Records)

These Finnish melodic doom death metallers have released a couple of fine albums already in 2015 and 2018, titled ‘Below The Green’ and ‘Frozen Beneath’ respectively and whilst their band name suggests an act of utter deathly filth they offer… Continue Reading →

Red Rot – Mal de Vivre (Svart Records)

Anything involving Davide Tiso promises to be interesting, challenging and disturbing and this always looked to be the same. When we start talking about one minute bursts and three minute nightmares exploring “themes of mental illness, psychological deviance, rage, gloom… Continue Reading →

Oknos – From Ashes (Self-Released)

This is actually the second release by German Symphonic Metal band Oknos, but the first one I’ve heard (soon to be remedied if their previous CD is even half as good as this one…), and as I sit here, listening… Continue Reading →

Soilwork – Övergivenheten (Nuclear Blast)

It’s hard to see a new Soilwork album without feeling that you know what to expect. Not that I’m complaining, as I have all 11 albums they’ve released plus other bits. I expect melody, I expect aggression, I expect a… Continue Reading →

Hours Of Worship – The Cold That You Left (Iron Bonehead)

Type the band name into a search engine and you are more likely to be invited to church than anything else. Listen to their music though and you may find yourself in need of some redemption. As I guessed, this… Continue Reading →

Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition III: The Astral Drain (Eisenwald)

The third instalment of Panzerfaust’s sweeping Suns of Perdition journey kicks off in typically bleak and suffocating style with a ten minute spiral into purgatory that reminds us what we’ve been missing since the last release. Not that we’ve had… Continue Reading →

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