Raise those horns everyone – and let me see those fists in the air! Oh Yes – The third album from German Metallers Alpha Tiger has arrived…and it’s a full-on Metal-fest! OK, I know the other two were hardly jazz-rock,… Continue Reading →
This is a nice release, two of my favourite Swedish bands playing two distinct styles or variations of traditional metal, both having one individual track, one cover track and another cover of a track by the other band (if you… Continue Reading →
When three Teutonic metal legends unite in a Swiss nightclub to create a power trio which suddenly takes the European Metal Scene by storm, you know you have something special on your hands. With one part Destruction and two parts… Continue Reading →
Air Raid return with a fresh singer compared to the line-up I witnessed live in Germany at the Keep It True Festival last year. ‘Point of Impact’ is their third full length release and is slightly more melodic than previous… Continue Reading →
Luckily I live in a detached house. I’m not gloating or anything – it’s my potential neighbours I’m thinking of, because when an album like Triosphere’s 3rd release “The Heart Of The Matter” comes along (a bit like I felt… Continue Reading →
Classic 80’s style Heavy/Doom Metal anyone? From an Italian band that were there the first time but have only just got around to re-recording their best tracks? A band that dress in silver pointy hats, fake Spock ears, skin-tight cropped… Continue Reading →
For those of you with serious `underground’ credentials, the true diggers and delvers into the less well-known acts that are out there to be discovered, some of you few may be aware of King Fowley, a true underground legend in… Continue Reading →
Chris Black may be famous of late for his High Spirits band, but this is his original band that has been going since 1995 and listening to ‘Nobody There’, it’s clear it’s Black’s vocals, albeit a slower tempo than the… Continue Reading →
Riot are one of those bands that come with the “should have been much bigger” tag, there are distinct periods of Riot’s music that feature heavily with fans around the world, to me five distinct periods exist, mainly around the… Continue Reading →
l guess I like classic horror (thereby excluding all torture porn/slasher shit or mainstream random family haunted by irrelevant mess with added obvious creepy kid cookie-cutter flicks.) From serious, scary weirdshit to big bubblegum and candyfloss shlock outings. Particularly the… Continue Reading →
There is sometimes a load of old shite talked about “guilty pleasures”, with dyed in the wool serious musos talking about the “guilty pleasure” of liking music that is anything less than underground and as kvlt as fuck. Well firstly,… Continue Reading →
Geordie metallers Hellion Rising have been kicking around since 2012 and at first, given the name of the band, I as many who haven’t heard of the band before may be forgiven that they are a death metal band. How… Continue Reading →