Tag UK
I think it’s fair to say that up to here UK melodic death thrashers Bloodshot Dawn have been executing a textbook perfect ‘how to grow your band’ plan. Demo, EP, well received self released debut, lots of good to great… Continue Reading →
Not everything that dies stays dead and that is certainly true as far as bands are concerned. Just look at what is going on at the moment in extreme music land. After well in excess of ten year gaps between… Continue Reading →
Apart from having a name that sounds like a Goth girl’s Facebook pseudonym, Spider Kitten are arguably one of the most prolific bands on the UK doom scene. Don’t believe me? Go to their bandcamp page (link below) and you’ll… Continue Reading →
Once Upon A Time in the deep dark 70’s there was a guy called Tony Wakeford who embarked upon a quest to recount tales of old English eccentricity and legend. He has been doing so ever since and has released… Continue Reading →
There is sometimes a load of old shite talked about “guilty pleasures”, with dyed in the wool serious musos talking about the “guilty pleasure” of liking music that is anything less than underground and as kvlt as fuck. Well firstly,… Continue Reading →
Geordie metallers Hellion Rising have been kicking around since 2012 and at first, given the name of the band, I as many who haven’t heard of the band before may be forgiven that they are a death metal band. How… Continue Reading →
Coming from Birmingham (that’s England, not Alabama), for many the spiritual birthplace of heavy metal as the city that spawned Black Sabbath, Alunah are a band that has a long and dark musical heritage to live up to. Now, whilst… Continue Reading →
They’re back, those filthy hippies with their long hair and degenerate ways, trying to entice people back into their devil worshipping ways with the offer of Satanic doom, drugs, b-movies and freakish sex. They are all combined here as “allegedly”… Continue Reading →
I consider myself hugely privileged to have been given the last couple of Winterfylleth albums and splits to review: I’ve seen them grow up in public from a pretty raw but uniquely talented grouping, with a little pinch of early… Continue Reading →
2015 sees Orange Goblin celebrate 20 years, and already they have announced a pretty special show at London’s Desertfest playing their classic ‘The Big Black’ in its entirety as well as doubtless a few special surprises. Yet, despite that, and… Continue Reading →
Amulet are London’s future legends, having followed this band from their inception it’s with great pleasure that I get to review their debut album on a major label, something that is both warranted and something that is justified via their… Continue Reading →
Harrow- Middlesex. Home of a posh school where many of the country’s elite have been churned out to pollute or improve our society for centuries. It is also the home of the delightfully monickered Hang the Bastard. These West London… Continue Reading →