Tag Iron Maiden
There are many who like a bit of heavy metal in their lives and then there are those who have it defining their very existence. People at that end of the spectrum are completely obsessive over it and it goes… Continue Reading →
It’s been, quite literally, a lifetime since the last Witch Cross album. Back in 1984 metal was just metal and you wore long hair, jeans (most likely blue, I’m afraid), trainers and it was all about vinyl or maybe a… Continue Reading →
In days gone by I would have bought this Witches Mark on the strength of the diabolically cheesy album art that adorns it. You’ll see what I mean when you see it. That aside I was expecting an album of… Continue Reading →
Weather predictions for the second day spoke of rain, and indeed where I live there certainly had been some, along with an all out storm. Travelling the thirty or so kilometres to the venue, it came as somewhat of a… Continue Reading →
Aborym have been consistently delivering the goods for a surprisingly long time now, haven’t they? It only really struck me when coming to write this review, that it was 2001 when I first had my introduction to the band with… Continue Reading →
…a bit of a quality find, this, hailing from across the North Sea in that there Germany. I’m a bit of a sucker for a melody every now and then, as not even the most stalwart of us can exist… Continue Reading →
Brace your ears and prepare to get your Doom on with the second full length release from Providence Rhode Island’s own Howl! Care of the ever heavy Relapse Records, a label that seems to specialise in bands that are never… Continue Reading →
Legendary NWOBHM band Elixir called it quits recently following a successful reformation over the last 12 years or so. From that band Guitarist Phil Denton and vocalist Paul Taylor have formed Midnight Messiah (a track from Elixir’s last studio release… Continue Reading →
You may recall how impressed and taken I was with the Shadow Kingdom debut album from US rockers Corsair, and as it came so out of the blue to me I was intrigued as to who these classy upstarts were… Continue Reading →
The big four of thrash may well be criminally considered to be American, but when it comes to European thrash and in particular German thrash, then the big four are surly and most unquestionably Sodom, Destruction, Kreator and Tankard. This… Continue Reading →
The colourful sleeve picture is of a city at war, lightening, barbed wire and skeletons. This is the image of the coolly-named Canadian old-school thrash metal band Mortillery. Destruction is their world in common with the band of that name…. Continue Reading →
This re-activated NWOBHM East End band’s music is full of all the trademarks you would expect in their genre and their recent live shows around the UK capital have generated a positive reaction with me in particular. ‘Whispers in the… Continue Reading →