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The Nihilistic Front – Procession To Annihilation (Aesthetic Death)

Having not heard any of the three previously self-released albums by Australian act The Nihilistic Front I was luckily provided a crash course of some of their older material thanks to a compilation put together by Stu of their new… Continue Reading →

Unkind – Pelon Juuret (Relapse)

‘Melodic’ is a curious word to those of us drawn to less-than-mainstream stuff. I mean pop your average Beyonce fan down in front of something by, say, Chthonic or Selfless as recently reviewed varying examples and they’ll just hear some… Continue Reading →

Power Trip – Manifest Decimation (Southern Lord)

“Steel, speed and destruction” is the summary given on Power Trip’s own page. Taking old school thrash metal values and combining them with punk hardcore seems to be about where this Texan band is at. Although I’m familiar with the… Continue Reading →

Agrimonia – Rites of Separation (Southern Lord)

What is in a label? A genre label I mean, not a record label. I’ve heard so many arguments recently about the need to put a band’s music in a very clearly defined pigeon hole so that everyone can feel… Continue Reading →

Inebrious Bastard / Debacle – Split (Crust Almighty / Beerache)

In the corner of Ave Noctum that is forever punk, alongside the fine Selfless album we have this split from globally distant bands Debacle and Inebrious Bastard, with their members mentioning Melbourne, Sydney and the odd member from the UK’s… Continue Reading →

Frozen Ocean – Vanviddsanger (Obscure Abhorrence Productions)

It’s always nice to get post from Russia even if in this case the package needed serious de-thawing in a warm cupboard overnight before I could get under the ice and frost and open it. This time there were two… Continue Reading →

Tormented – Death Awaits (Listenable Records)

We lost Dismember, we’ve recently lost or will be losing later this year Vomitory…Tormented have the right style and persona to follow in their footsteps although I will refrain from saying that they could replace them, we are not quite… Continue Reading →

Grimlord: V – Column (Legacy Records)

“Progressive” can mean many things in music. In this case it seems to mean a lot of styles. On the band’s myspace site, their music is categorised as Metal/Progressive/Thrash. Yep, I get that. Then I read the following on the… Continue Reading →

Wartorn- Iconic Nightmare (Southern Lord)

All the way from Appleton, Wisconsin comes the no fucking about crust crew Wartorn. First release on Southern Lord after a fair few records on punk labels like Profane Existence and as the title track kicks off it’s easy to… Continue Reading →

Kromosom – Live Forever (Southern Lord)

I immediately read the description of this and assumed that the band were from Sweden or possibly Finland where crust is undeniably king but then we have all been guilty of overlooking Australia at times, probably due to it being… Continue Reading →

Ravens Creed – The Power (Doomentia)

It’s been three years since we heard ‘Albion Thunder’ from these very heavy metal bastards. At the time they had a well known singer Ben Ward who was kind of on loan from his better known group Orange Goblin. He… Continue Reading →

The Secret – Agnus Dei (Southern Lord)

These Italian crust/grind/black metal bastards have really pushed the intense as fuck boat out, way out, on their 2nd album for Southern Lord, probably one of the first big underground labels to really embrace the insane crust/black/metal crossover. It’s silly… Continue Reading →

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