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Simon – The Inner Traveller (Redfield Records)

Oops! This album was apparently out on Redfield Digital early December 2013, but due to assorted factors beyond my control becomes my first written review of 2014; such is the topsy turvy world of underground metal, a whole multiverse away… Continue Reading →

Pure Negative – Insert [Twist] Pull (SR)

Pure Negative in the house! Well they should be in the house but if they were they would be squatting it as they have no home, no label willing to pick them up and give them some love and warmth,… Continue Reading →

Down – Den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 27/10/12

Tonight marks Down’s Luxembourg debut, and unsurprisingly, it’s a sell-out. Then again, according to the modest tour shirts (whose dates are obscured by a giant red ‘SOLD OUT’ stamp), so is the whole tour. It came as a bit of… Continue Reading →

Bloodstock Open Air Saturday 11th August 2012

Napalm Death have this year off so it’s the turn of the other Brummie brutalists Benediction to open the main stage today. It does seem as though one or the other is guaranteed to play the festival each year, not… Continue Reading →

Fuckhammer – Hammered To Fuck (Grindscene)

It is an old cliché – never judge a book by its cover. I am of course, old enough to know better, but I still assumed, picking up the delightfully-named Fuckhammer’s EP, that it would be awfully-produced death/grind. The cover… Continue Reading →

Drawers – All Is One (Slow Burn Records)

The sheer volume of music out there, divided into a plethora of disparate genres and subgenres, never ceases to amaze me. As lovers of the art form we are all sweeping our musical metal detectors across these heaving, sonic haystacks,… Continue Reading →

Goatwhore – Blood for the Master

Artist: Goatwhore Title: Blood for the Master Type: Album Label: Metal Blade Records You always know where you stand with Goatwhore. Hoodies, skulls, blood and an avowed liking for Celtic Frost and Venom call come into it. Heavy-sounding track titles… Continue Reading →

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