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If you live in or around London and attend gigs on a regular basis, then Latitudes will have becoming a steady part of you gig going diet for the last seven years or so. The band’s initial release was instrumental… Continue Reading →
The last release I reviewed by this band ‘Undead in Leather’, is a fine effort and very much reigniting the UK scene with a hefty dirty approach akin to the old German thrash scene. On ‘Black Sacrament’ there is definitely… Continue Reading →
Sludge from Hull featuring an ex member of Winterfylleth. There are no echoes of Everything But the Girl, Kingmaker (I used to live in Hull) or Black Metal here. This is 27 minutes of fuzzy sludge. Big riffs backed by… Continue Reading →
Anybody remember British bruisers Gutworm? Active between 1999 and 2010 they released a couple of formidable albums and threw their weight around live on the UK circuit, playing some hefty shows. I just dug out their debut album ‘Ruin The… Continue Reading →
It’s always good to have a new band cross your path, and the arrival of a hand written CD-R does give a little frisson of nostalgia, almost taking me back to the days when music was swapped via the media… Continue Reading →
I obviously don’t get out enough because living down the road in Cambridge, I was surprised I hadn’t heard about Obscene Entity from Bury St Edmunds. I now know that the band has been around since 2011 and this album… Continue Reading →
When I was offered to review this album, I wasn’t sure what to expect…..but it wasn’t this! The album is sung entirely in Latin and takes the form of a Requiem Mass, following the structure of Mozart’s Requiem Mass in… Continue Reading →
I like everything about Nhor. I like the pagan-pastoral vision, the unhurried compositions that braid black metal together with gently sombre acoustic passages; I like the album covers and the increasingly elaborate products that accompany its releases (the latest comes… Continue Reading →
What a great idea, get two of the most horrific outfits in existence and throw them together, double the horror! In the left corner and standing with their backs to us we have the mysterious Dragged Into Sunlight from various… Continue Reading →
Since around 1985 Dean Jones has been at the helm of Extreme Noise Terror taking the band through thick and thin and a cast list of somewhere in the region of 25 ex members, including some that are well known… Continue Reading →
One of my most anticipated albums of the year and there’s been much in the way of promotion leading up to this, in fact you could hardly have failed to realise that it was on the way if you are… Continue Reading →
Formed in 2013 with one aim – to bring the worship of the riff to the masses, the Manchester based four piece PIST have been working overtime. Touring extensively in support of the fantastic “Riffology” EP and being rewarded for… Continue Reading →