Tag Prosthetic Records
Having formed back in 2017 I feel obliged to lump Molder into this new wave of Death Metal resurgence we’ve seen. Something which at one end has bands like Gatecreeper pushing the genre ever more mainstream and at the other… Continue Reading →
I seem to have a knack of picking up “controversial” bands for reviews recently. OK Schammasch have not got the same kinda traction as Escuela Grind when it comes to net gossip but I have read a fair few KVLT… Continue Reading →
“Glacial Tomb” conjures up dark, dankness partnered with slow moving vastness on a millennial scale. Now this is true of the Denver band on their second full length release. However, the ice mountain is not so lazy in its progress…. Continue Reading →
Offering up a steady stream of full lengths, split releases and EP’s since 2016, Wraith have an old school thrash style that is very much a product of their influences. The four member band are clearly standard bearers for early… Continue Reading →
Exploring themes as various as modern-day warmongering, space colonisation and declining mental health, progressive black metal band Svneatr are here releasing their third album. Solid and heavy is “Mechanical Wolves”, which gets us under way. This is a heavy metal… Continue Reading →
Utter filth! It should be banned. This is what Mary Whitehouse was trying to protect us from. She was right. Won’t someone think of the children!???? Don’t worry I have not taken leave of my senses and also, fear not… Continue Reading →
Powerviolence – a mucho macho compound noun. The kind of word that my wife mocks when I come back from the gym and tell her what exercises or machine I have been using. “Oh angry bear dragthroughs, assault bikes and… Continue Reading →
Another week, another instalment of The Weirder End of the Press List, and this time we have the many and varied delights of Volcandra, with their second full-length album, The Way of Ancients. Incidentally, this is also an episode of… Continue Reading →
Listening to “an unnerving excavation of ill health and Catholic guilt” in musical form doesn’t sound like a whole load of fun, but without going into the detail this album does reflect the personal experience of the vocalist, and as… Continue Reading →
I thoroughly enjoyed this US band’s self-titled debut released in 2022, it was packed with blackened ferocity and this follow up continues that style extremely successfully. The opening tune ‘Emergence’ is very short and sort of acts like a prolonged… Continue Reading →
Domination Campaign is the brainchild of Psycroptic frontman Jason Peppiatt, and he is joined by Psycroptic bandmate, Joe Haley, making this 50% of the Tasmanian Technical Death Metal giants working on a musical venture which exists to act as a… Continue Reading →
Twenty one years into their career, much loved Irish thrashers Gama Bomb deliver their eighth sonic explosion in the shape of “Bats”. Vocalist and guitarist Domo Dixon has taken the reigns and handled the production, mixing and mastering for the… Continue Reading →