Tag Thin Lizzy
What happens when you combine ex-Primal Fear members with classic rock meets rockabilly meets the blues? You get the strangely enjoyable Nitrogods project. Having released their self titled effort in 2012, the band started work on what would become this… Continue Reading →
Think of Australia, think of rock music, and probably the first, and for some only, band you’ll think of would be veteran stadium fillers AC/DC, or maybe their young clones, sorry, potential successors Airbourne. To be added to that list… Continue Reading →
Audrey Horne is a band that have split the opinion of some of my more extreme metal following friends, mourning as they do the fact that a band once formed of members of Enslaved, Gorgoroth and the like did not… Continue Reading →
Originally released last year on vinyl, Sweden’s Black Trip for me personally were a great underground find. Their first 7 inch record ‘Tvar Dabla’ is still in demand and it’s increasingly hard to find now. Occult heavy metal in the… Continue Reading →
I can only assume anyone who is reading this review is likely to have heard of Germany’s own retro power trio Kadavar; if not, you must have been living under a stoner, badoom tish! Sorry, bad pun, but I couldn’t… Continue Reading →
This is a promising US band who took their name from a darker Deep Purple tune and it’s fair to say that dark riffs is their thing if last years ‘Shades of Black’ EP is anything to go by. There… Continue Reading →
Doesn’t time fly? It was 2008 when I last laid hands on a Mustasch album, the compilation ‘Lowlife Highlights’, and since then they’ve fired out two new albums, one LP re-recording old tracks, a bunch of singles and EPs, as… Continue Reading →
Finally! This US band has a debut album out with new tracks and a fresh approach to traditional heavy metal. Their previous EP’s, singles and demos have been of a high standard and this continues to be the case for… Continue Reading →
You know that ache that the best music can give you? That one that begins behind your ribcage and seeps into your guts and just swells until it forces itself out through your mouth in a chant or a cry… Continue Reading →
This is an album of re-recorded classics from Sinner, the German traditional metal band fronted by Mat Sinner who many of you will know from his work with Primal Fear. Mat Sinner acknowledges that the early Sinner material is becoming… Continue Reading →
Diamond Lil eh? Sounds like a right character, perhaps from around the old East End, a lady not to be messed with as she may cut you with a blade just like a diamond. She is a fearsome character a… Continue Reading →
For the last few years, it has been Stoner, Doom, and more down tempo metal that has been getting me to gigs, filling my shelves with CDs, and stopping me paying off my mortgage early for that matter. Lots of… Continue Reading →