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Project Pain – Thrashed To Kill (Dead Inside)

Dutch thrash outfit Project Pain hail from Amersfoort and already have a demo and debut release under their belts. After signing a deal with Dead Inside Records at the end of June, their second album “Thrashed To Kill” is set… Continue Reading →

Ritual Chamber – The Pits Of Tentacled Screams (Hellthrasher)

Always feels kinda nice and also odd getting a CD review copy of something that screams ‘old school’ so loudly it probably spins at 33rpm. That and it sounds so tangible and so thick with tar that you could resurface… Continue Reading →

Hope Drone – Cloak Of Ash (Relapse)

When this one came in for review I noticed that the label had not exactly given us much lead time before release date so decided to download it quickly and make it a priority. I had never heard of the… Continue Reading →

Shroud Of The Heretic – Unorthodox Equilibrium (Iron Bonehead)

Death Metal power trio, Shroud Of The Heretic from Portland, Oregon return with their chaotic astral and bestial musical assault for their second full length release “Unorthodox Equilibrium”. With themes and inspiration drawn from Nature, Mysticism, Forbidden Gnosticism, Alchemy, Astralism… Continue Reading →

Xandria – Fire and Ashes (Napalm)

It’s Xandria’s turn to release one of these extended EP type things that Napalm are so keen on as a fill-in between albums. We are treated to 3 new songs 2 re-recordings and a cover. There are actually TWO cover… Continue Reading →

Interview – DiabolicuM

When it comes to Sweden’s industrial/black metal pioneers Diabolicum, and especially their rampaging latest disc ‘Ia Pazuzu’, utterly negative adjectives are all that can describe them. Given the opportunity to pick the brains of founding member Sasrof, it came as… Continue Reading →

Cradle Of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches (Nuclear Blast)

I just realised that I completely missed ‘The Manticore’ and it’s been 5 years since I’ve heard any new Cradle material. I would also appear that Dani Filth, Martin Skaroupka and Daniel Firth are the only ones still with the… Continue Reading →

Perversor – Anticosmocrator (Hells Headbangers)

“Inhale”, proclaims the first track of this collection of violent outbursts from Chile’s Perversor. What you’re inhaling here is the musical equivalent of a plague of locusts. If “Inhale” was associated with a colour, it would be black or grey…. Continue Reading →

Sabhankra – Seers Memoir (Haarbn)

This Russian label may not release stacks of stuff but the bands they do seem to find always have an interesting quality about them and come from places that you would not always associate metal music with. The other album… Continue Reading →

Barshasketh – Ophidian Henosis (Blut and Eisen Records)

I had heard and read good things about this New Zealand / Scottish band so my hopes were high. To be sure this album, which is basically seven hefty untitled chunks of black metal, carves out its own world and… Continue Reading →

Sacri Monti – S/T (Tee Pee)

There’s been a lot of retro rock, doom rock, occult rock of late (call it what you want) and apart from The Riddles, not many bands have picked up the psychedelic tag. This American band from California really keep the… Continue Reading →

Destruktor – Opprobrium (Hell’s Headbangers)

Oof you’re kind of asking for ‘harsh criticism’ calling your album Opprobrium but luckily we all like a bit of cranium wrecking barbarism from labels like Hell’s Headbangers especially when it’s shat out by an underground war machine like Australian… Continue Reading →

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