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There’s some good retro sounding blues rock floating around at the moment, and Pet The Preacher with their first release on Napalm Records ‘The Cave and The Sunlight’ have added an excellent contribution to this resurging genre. However, far… Continue Reading →
American Speed Metal (fast and furious, usually with some form of sporadic high pitched vocal, double-kick drums flying all over the place, frenetic riffing, but stopping just short of Thrash) was one of the 80’s Metal styles that never… Continue Reading →
This was going to be a fun one and it was nice to see that a few people were dressed for the occasion wearing lab coats and bee hats to add to the zaniness that the headlining trolls were going… Continue Reading →
Love them or hate them for their style and often scribed emulation of a particular cult artist and group, Sweden’s Portrait know a thing or two about atmosphere, eerie atmosphere that is. With a fresh new recording line up in… Continue Reading →
Encountering Caïnan Dawn reminds me of the old ways. Obtain a record on the strength of a recommendation/ review/ nice cover. Get the bus home. Stick it on. Worry that it’s a bit shit. Feel a bit regretful because it… Continue Reading →
I’ve been a long-time fan of Solitude Productions approach to business, clearly sticking to what they know and trying to give wider exposure to the bands they put their weight behind. I’ve discovered many excellent artists within the doom spectrum… Continue Reading →
Sweden’s Puteraeon are back once again with another fine slice of old school death metal, laced with lyrical Lovecraft worship. This band are one of the busiest and hardest working bands I have come across in a long time. Since… Continue Reading →
Oi Inferno Festival, you’ve nicked all the good bands leaving us stuck in London with a dull long weekend. Hold on though the Unicorn is always reliable for a good evening of live music and indeed there is a night… Continue Reading →
It seems like just last year that I received the new Autopsy album to metaphorically gush over. Oh, what’s that you say? It was just last year?! Well I’ll be blown (again, metaphorically): just a matter of months ago, these… Continue Reading →
I reckon Nuclear Blast think they’ve found a band who have inhabited a small gap in the Metal market – it is their job after all, but they might just be right. It’s probably a sound that only a… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Athens, the birthplace of philosophy comes Mother of Millions, a 5-piece progressive metal act who certainly provoke a lot of thought when you listen to them. Formed in 2008 and including members from one of Greece’s finest progressive… Continue Reading →
Tourist Trap 1979 was one of many films made under Charles Band’s Empire Pictures (which later became Full Moon Productions) stable in the booming golden video age. Band himself was a director and producer responsible for many stand-alone films and… Continue Reading →