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Few bands exemplified heavy metal like Usurper. With their no nonsense, full bore approach to their calling, they were like a Manowar that you didn’t feel ashamed to enjoy and it was a sad time when they decided to call… Continue Reading →
You know that ache that the best music can give you? That one that begins behind your ribcage and seeps into your guts and just swells until it forces itself out through your mouth in a chant or a cry… Continue Reading →
They don’t rush things do they? With five years having passed since the release of Age Of Nero one could almost have forgotten about Satyricon if their stature in the pantheon of Norwegian black metal had not been so important…. Continue Reading →
Hmm. Well I do like a bit of hard rock with my metal now and then, just to keep things spiced up, so I was happy to get this debut from London based rockers Hornet to round out a pretty… Continue Reading →
Technical power thrash sounds a decent combination. The final ingredient is the way it’s mixed. The truth is that I’m struggling to find anything good to say about this album. The second track “Dark Design” sets the scene after an… Continue Reading →
Monsterworks are a slippery bunch in a good way in that not only do they experiment quite wildly with musical genres but also with a very refreshing and intelligent approach to subject matter. Whilst the music may occasionally suggest traditional… Continue Reading →
All fans of extreme metal over a certain age should be overjoyed at the final return of Carcass, legendary, groundbreaking and unique purveyors of gore-drenched yet witty and sharp, crushingly heavy death/gore/grind/metal… Call it what you will, Carcass made it… Continue Reading →
Recently a package of assorted discs arrived and had me scratching my head and wondering just what I had in front of me from a label called Gaphals Records who I admit were completely new to me. Going through them… Continue Reading →
The album art, a colourless, out-of-focus shack lost in a barren wasteland, should tip you off to the kind of music that lurks within. Thränenkind are just one of a batch of ambient hardcore bands that seem to be turning… Continue Reading →
When I got the first Nordland album by musician Vorh to review, besides finding the music extremely promising if a little leaning towards Burzum and Immortal, I did bemoan the presentation. A little picky of me on a self-release in… Continue Reading →
Third release from German four-piece Obelyskkh sees a refinement in their usually self-indulgent droning to something much sharper and, while still heavily infused with psychedelia, there are some suffocatingly crushing riffs at work, lifting the record out of the murky depths of… Continue Reading →
Being France’s best known thrash band is a bit like being Britain’s best known competitive camel jockey; presumably one exists, but nobody outside of a select few know about it. While it is true that No Return are better known… Continue Reading →