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Third EP (plus one full length) from this Nottingham via South Africa band who, after one listen of this I can genuinely say are a different prospect. Very. Five tracks including three covers (more of which later), twenty five minutes… Continue Reading →
Sometimes the problem with reviewing is the sheer volume of new stuff you get to hear which, inevitably, means you end up behind the curve on some things. Hellripper, one man outfit from the Highlands of Scotland, being a perfect… Continue Reading →
Vladphemer the Sodomizer, Noctisadistum and Branded Rebel, the members of black / speed metal band Bafomet, formerly known as Sigil of Bafomet, have pleasure in bringing us “F.O.A.D.I.F”. I know what FOAD is, but not IF – in flames? Anyway,… Continue Reading →
Turbocharged is a name I’m sure I know but can’t quite put my finger on anything in particular so let’s just take this as an introduction. The PR proclaims this three piece as ‘FFO’ old Entombed, Dismember and Swedish punk… Continue Reading →
I do like an E.P. Which is pretty lucky as there seems to be loads of them flying about at the moment – hey Ed you need to start letting us put them in our fave lists of the year [err nope Ed]. What used to… Continue Reading →
Proper heavy metal. You don’t come across it much these days. I was looking through some old rock magazines of my dad’s the other day, and back when, “heavy metal” was a really broad umbrella. Once we started to sub-genre… Continue Reading →
Abbath. His press blurb calls him “The Lemmy of Black Metal”, and as much as I wanted to revolt against this idea, I have to agree. He’s had some much-publicised troubles in the last couple of years, but he appears… Continue Reading →
Midnight is the dark offspring of one man – Athenar from Cleveland Ohio. Over the last 19 years he has been combining speed metal, D-Beat and Black Metal into a hellish hybrid that has kept many a metal head and punk happy. Let There Be Witchery… Continue Reading →
Nothing brings more satisfaction to a music nerd than following a band from their beginnings, perceiving their potential, and then seeing them rise and succeed. Sanhedrin is such a band for me. I came across them by pure chance, having… Continue Reading →
For no less than 32 years now Kirk Windstein has been leading Crowbar into battle, armed with a sonic arsenal of weaponised riffs that can crush concrete into dust. As such, when their impending twelfth album ‘Zero and Below’ arrived… Continue Reading →
As always, when I don’t know anything about a band, I like to start by taking a look at the album cover. It this case, it’s all black with drawings in thin white lines. Two centipedes are forming a circle… Continue Reading →
Originally independently released in 2019 this Spanish acts debut album has been picked up by Blood Fire Death for a further push on the global death metal market. There are mixed results here within the dozen or so tunes spliced… Continue Reading →