Tag Relapse Records
Wow, Ave Noctum actually gets sent some dungeon synth at last! Aye I was right on this when it popped up. But there are a couple of curiosities here too. Firstly; Relapse? Dungeon synth? Ooookay. Strange home but there we… Continue Reading →
The world of Hardcore has raised its head over the stage barriers in the last couple of years. Mainstream attention has been drawn by the pop and hip hop like production of the sublime Glow On by Turnstile and in… Continue Reading →
Just when you thought it was safe to listen to heavy music again, it’s the return of Iron Monkey. 2017’s rebirth album, “9-13” was a belter, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to wonder how a band with… Continue Reading →
Wolves in the Throne Room are a band I’ve had a long fascination with owing to them being the first atmospheric black metal act to pass my ears and were among the first left wing bands from the ever-expanding black… Continue Reading →
A friend of mine once noted that the album titles by this pioneering death metal band sort of read like statements of intent, such as Dying Fetus Killing On Adrenaline or Dying Fetus Destroy The Opposition and so on and… Continue Reading →
There are few acts with a discography as consistent as this pioneering US death metal band. Pick any release throughout the bands near 35 year history and you’ll listen to some of the finest death metal the genre has to… Continue Reading →
The line-up of this band is interesting, comprising members with a mix of influences from other bands, including All Out War, Pig Destroyer, Misery Index and Exhumed. Described as a fusion of “apocalyptic hardcore with vicious metal”, the band members… Continue Reading →
The brief snippets I heard of this Australian band were enough for me to want to review this latest release for the site, before which I did a proper swing through their discography to get a feel for how the… Continue Reading →
It has been 25 years since Razor’s last full length, ‘Decibels’, and the thrash fraternity have been hungerly awaiting another sacrifice from the Canadian speed royalty every day since. Well wait no longer, ‘Cycle Of Contempt’ is upon us, so… Continue Reading →
Quite clearly US doom-death ghouls Temple Of Void are hellbent on plunging you, the unfortunate listener, into a miasmic cauldron of scathing riffs, hideous atmospherics and a sound as abyssal as anything you’re likely to hear in this genre. The… Continue Reading →
There are times where reviewing certain bands constitutes more than just an item on a to do list, where it is less ephemeral than it may often be. There are some bands, that transcend our corporeal existence, and stick like… Continue Reading →
Comprised of Iggor Cavalera (ex-Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura), Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Amenra’s Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove and Colin H. Van Eeckhout, Absent in Body is something of a post metal supergroup. Their debut album, Plague God, was recorded at Amenra… Continue Reading →