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Outre – Ghost Chants (Godz Ov War)

There’s been a real buzz about this album and I got to the party a little late due to the fact I mixed up things where the promo was coming from (slightly understandable as it’s being release via Godz ov… Continue Reading →

Demon Eye – Tempora Infernalia (Soulseller)

Just a couple of days before typing up this review I was riding public transport through the expensive end of the capital’s retail district, the sort of area where high end shops cluster together to display their wares in a… Continue Reading →

Jaded Star – Memories from the future (Sensory)

I have seen Visions of Atlantis numerous times, as well as enjoying their recorded output, and have always been impressed with the power of Maxi Nil’s vocal delivery. I was disappointed when I heard that she had parted company with… Continue Reading →

Alcoholator – Escape From Reality (High Roller)

Alcoholator hail from Montreal, Canada and they do one thing and they do it well – they play thrash metal. Given their lyrical themes, it would be only natural to assume that they are Canada’s equivalent to Teutonic thrash titans… Continue Reading →

Varathron, Horna, Grave Miasma, Tortorum & Fides Inversa – London Dome 2/5/15

Scroll to bottom for photos, be warned they are not safe for work! Italian, Norwegian, British, Finnish and Greek bands all clash headlong on stage this evening bringing a pure axis of evil to London. First up are the Italians… Continue Reading →

Arcturus – Arcturian (Prophecy)

This is one of those albums we never really expected to happen. After Arcturus split in 2007 following on from their ‘Sideshow Symphonies’ album a couple of years earlier things seemed pretty final. However they had persevered through losing original… Continue Reading →

Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben het Goed (Consouling Sounds)

Some years ago a lively Belgian band Iconoclasm played at the Infernal Damnation Fest in London. Their brand of black metal was so intense and noxious that their sound managed to drown out the fire alarm. Someone alerted us to… Continue Reading →

Ultra Violence – Deflect The Flow (Candlelight)

Ultra Violence are (for those who are un-initiated) a young Italian bunch of thrash-revivalists, who started out their career with their debut full length ‘Privilege to Overcome’ on the modern thrash pushing label Punishment 18, and now see their 2nd… Continue Reading →

Seremonia – Kristalliarkki (Svart)

You will know this band well if you are into the likes of Blood Ceremony, Jex Thoth and Jess and the Ancient Ones This is the bands third full length release, so there is an expectation about this record. There’s a… Continue Reading →

Bake in Black – Eve & Dave O’Sullivan (Flood Gallery Publishing)

The concept of Bake in Black was birthed in a kitchen in East London – Eve (a food journalist) and Dave (a musician) began a blog which intertwined the concept of baking with heavy metal; they took a song or… Continue Reading →

Neurotic Death Fest – 013 Tilburg Holland – 17-19 April

On Friday 17th April, the world’s death metal community had the tattered old carpet whipped violently out from under its feet, as it was announced that the twelfth edition of the awesome Neurotic Deathfest festival that was about to commence… Continue Reading →

Unleashed – Dawn of the Nine (Nuclear Blast)

Believe it or not,  this is full length studio album number twelve from Johnny Hedlund and his bunch of merry men. Considering they’ve had a career spanning over 25 years, I suppose you could say they’ve been fairly consistent to… Continue Reading →

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