Tag hardcore
When Denmark’s Helhorse dropped Oh Death on us it was a mighty impressive and mature piece of hardcore driven rock n metal and catchy as Hel(l) to boot. So given the chance to fire a few questions their way, Ave… Continue Reading →
Danish band Helhorse have been making a good bit of noise in the scene recently and all sorts of people had been telling me to lend them an ear. So here we are and within seconds of the perfectly titled… 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 →
I have to get this out of the way. Plough is an awful name for a band. Unless you are a Metal Wurzels tribute act. It conjures up memories of harvest festival at junior school which I have had therapy… Continue Reading →
It’s not every day that you hear a hardcore gang chant with skirling bagpipes in the background. That’s before a techno remix of an earlier track “Riding a Redhead” which brings this album to an end. If such eccentricity and… Continue Reading →
A spell-binding introduction gives us a flavour of where we’re going. In fact we go to several different places. Mind Structure are from Ukraine and draw from USA and Scandinavia for their brand of highly technical melodic metal with hardcore… Continue Reading →
Bang your head! Conan’s First Date from Hungary come from the rampant thrashing death metal camp. This is their first album after a couple of ep’s. Starting with “The Man, The Monster”, there’s a feel of Pantera or one of… Continue Reading →
The Defiled, a hardcore metal bunch of guys from London, were formed in 2005 and released their first EP in 2009 titled ‘1888’ and shortly after, they released their first album “Grave Times’ which was given away free with Metal… Continue Reading →
Well, this certainly flipped the script on me. On the surface of things, this was to be just a regular common or garden black metal release for reviewing, which upon listening to I would be washed away in a sea… Continue Reading →
There is something rather horrific about this trio of US releases on Southern Lord. Each one seeks to carve deep penetrating auditory scars within your fragile psyche by exuding corrosive and barraging music that sits entrenched within core like manifestations,… Continue Reading →
Armed for Apocalypse are a band that are met with staggering praise for reasons that are simply unfathomable. Often lumped into the category of sludge, the only connection they have with the genre is loose at best. The vocals are… Continue Reading →
Two guys from Philadelphia put out four slabs of dark and weighty metal. That sums up “False Prism” for me. The opening tones suggest a bit of Hawkwind psychedelia but that’s just a bit part as walls start to crash… Continue Reading →