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Lonewolf – Army Of The Damned (Napalm Records)

1988 was a very interesting year for yours truly as it contained some blinding albums and also my turning point from thrash to death/grind/crust in that order. Why am I saying this, well France’s Lonewolf are a band stuck in… Continue Reading →

Alkerdeel – Morinde (Consouling Sounds)

It figures that on their website Alkerdeel have posted an album preview to a visual scene from Belgian horror film Calvaire (reviewed elsewhere on this site). This Belgian lot have made a point of noting that this release is in… Continue Reading →

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing – This May Be The Reason… (Leather Apron)

Or to give the preposterously entitled album it’s full name ‘This May Be The Reason The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons!’ With a title like that we really do need to… Continue Reading →

Synasthasia – Style Collector (Sound Guerilla Records)

Synasthasia (try saying that after a few drinkies) are from Germany, so they obviously have metal in their bones. They released their first demo back in 1999, followed by their first full length album ‘The Land of Lores’ in 2003…. Continue Reading →

Lord Mantis – Pervertor (Candlelight)

‘Spawning The Nephilim’ the 2009 debut album from Lord Mantis must have escaped me but obviously it must have had some good points to get the group signed from a more obscure label to Candlelight Records. The Chicago based band… Continue Reading →

Immolith- Storm Dragon (Metalhit.com)

Taking their name from a skeletal, flaming daemon from the D&D universe, New Jersey’s Immolith specialise in a hybrid of the old Norwegian and Swedish styles of BM, the songs forever tumbling into the abyss as they are dragged along… Continue Reading →

Primary Slave – Another Mark is Drawn (One Eyed Toad Records)

The story behind this UK band is unusual. With an album released in 2000, a key member died and his work for the next recorded album had to be recovered after a computer crash. If the story behind the band… Continue Reading →

BirdEatsBaby and She Makes War at Hoxton Underbelly, 18/02/12

While I suspect many of our London readers had ventured into Camden to watch Alcest play to a sell-out crowd of beard-stroking, black-rimmed glasses wearing hipsters who read about them in the Guardian, I had to go one better. I… Continue Reading →

Seagulls Insane and Swans Deceased Mining Out the Void – S/T (Witching Hour)

There’s nothing like a short, snappy band name and album title that rolls gently off the tongue to attract readers’ attention, right? It may seem a tad pretentious, and I think this duo used up all their vocabulary naming the… Continue Reading →

Meta-Stasis – When The Mind Departs The Flesh (Depraved Records)

A gas masked psychopath on the front and zombie like nuns on the back means that this is about to be a full frontal tympanic membrane carnage. Meta-Stasis is composed of members from Ted Maul and Sikth. It is very… Continue Reading →

On Top – Top Heavy (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

On Top are a US“ power trio” who will apparently be suitable for fans of Motley Crue, Dokken, Queensryche, WASP and Dio? A sweeping statement, and to my ears rather inaccurate! This is dirty rock n roll, something that has… Continue Reading →

A Look ‘Inside’ – French Extremity Part Two

Having looked at the origins of French genre cinema and seen that a proactive Gallic style in both sleaze and gore quickly emerged we are now heading to a time where any subtle sensibilities were dispatched with and a seriously… Continue Reading →

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