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Ektomorf have come in for a fair amount of stick over the years, particularly with regards to their lack of originality, or to put it more succinctly that they are an outright Soulfly clone. Admittedly the comparisons are far too… Continue Reading →
Thrash Metal. What does that mean to you? For me it means tight jeans, Converse basketball boots, patched denim over leather (Bonded By Blood back patch was mine), mullets, Lowenbrau and getting smashed to bits at Kings, The Greyhound or… Continue Reading →
About a year ago I reviewed a debut album by Austrian group Harikiri For The Sky which was a shoe-gaze, ambient and Indie sounding take on post black metal. Marrok from that group and also Selbstentleibung has decided to pretty… Continue Reading →
With a line-up including cEvin Key, Ken ‘hiwatt’ Marshall and Traz Damji I figured this, at the very least, would be a class act but also probably a bit of a nightmare to figure out how to turn in an… Continue Reading →
Righto, let’s get the history out of the way. Eric Wagner IS the voice of Trouble. Don’t get me wrong, I bought and enjoyed last year’s offering from that band, ‘The Distortion Field’, and if I’d had a top twenty… Continue Reading →
The internet is for porn, right? Time to step into the 21st century, friends; the World Wide Web is now an eclectic array of cats, cat gifs, funny cat videos AND porn (without cats). Oh, and it’s also seen the… Continue Reading →
It’s an oft-used cliché but in the case of renowned prog-death-metal crew Cynic, it really is no exaggeration to state that they have never played by the rules. From their 1993 debut ‘Focus’, the prodigious talents of the band were… Continue Reading →
Every November for the past 7 years, the horror faithful have descended upon Aberystwyth for the growing horror film festival that is Abertoir. Originally a three day festival, it has since spread out to a sprawling six, offering up… Continue Reading →
Well here it is. Definitely one of the most eagerly awaited UKDM albums this year. Bristol’s Amputated finally deliver their third full length with ‘Dissect, Molest, Ingest’ five years after their last offering – 2009’s ‘Wading Through Rancid Offal’. Has… Continue Reading →
Swedish progressive death metallers Descend returned with “Wither” which can only be described as a brilliant follow up to their 2012 effort, “Through the Eyes of the Burdened”. Everything in this new record is masterfully thought out, and its tight… Continue Reading →
Any band that is called Hammercult and has a sophomore album called Steelcrusher is going to get my attention immediately and added to this mix is the fact that they hail from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The corresponding clichéd artwork only confirms… Continue Reading →
Backwater is back, these gents hail from Germany and were part of the original invasion of traditional heavy and speed metal that was coming out of this land during the mid-eighties with similar bands of that ilk being Gravestone, Restless… Continue Reading →