Tag USA
When is an EP not an EP? When you add two tracks to an already 34 minute EP I guess. Still, label and band call it an EP so we’ll just think of it as good value, eh? Right. So… Continue Reading →
If we can, for a moment, try to divide the output of the extreme metal scene into the good, the bad and the downright ugly, there is absolutely no question that that Howls of Ebb fall headlong into the foul… Continue Reading →
I was not just surprised by Goatcraft’s 2013 debut album All For Naught, but also rather taken with its idiosyncratic approach of sole member and US based Lonegoat obsessively hammering away at his piano with little other accompaniment. This approach… Continue Reading →
I listened to a sample of what was a three minute extract of “Lost Fulcrum”, the first track on this album. I was attracted to the deep and chunky six string bass sound and wanted to hear more. Human Beansauce… Continue Reading →
With an excellent new album out in the racks, in Digital Resistance, Ave Noctum decided to track down Mike Skalzi singer, guitarist and writer with US rockers Slough Feg in the internet ether for little chat on the future of… Continue Reading →
Thrashers rejoice!! Hirax have returned after five years with their 5th full length ‘Immortal Legacy’. And what an appropriate title this is as Katon and company are here to enshrine their immortal legacy with another killer example of thrash metal… Continue Reading →
Whilst Vincent Crowley may have resigned from the Church of Satan, that should not be taken as a sign that he is any less committed or wavering in his beliefs, and he has continued to spread the word through the… Continue Reading →
Scream Bloody Leprosy! Isn’t it bizarre when you look at a photo of a band and assume that they are some obscure quantity from twenty-plus years ago who you’ve never heard of. In the case of California’s Morfin, despite their… Continue Reading →
The world needs mavericks… nay, eccentrics like Slough Feg (ne The Lord Weird Slough Feg). If you have never heard them an off the cuff one liner is difficult: There be a bit of a Celtic folk influence somewhere for… Continue Reading →
With this record seemingly hot on the heels of 2012’s splendid ‘Carbon Based Anatomy’ EP, it was with an element of surprise that this scribe learned that Cynic’s latest full-length ‘Kindly Bent to Free Us’ has actually been gestating away… Continue Reading →
A by product of going to a posh school many years ago where Latin and Ancient Greek were mandatory up to O level standard was that without resorting to online searches, or watching Clash of the Titans, I knew immediately… Continue Reading →
D-Rei. Doremi Fasol Latido? Maybe I’m over thinking the title of this album but when opening track ‘Stare At The Water’ hits its stride and Black Space Riders heavily Hawkwind influenced space rock bursts out it really was my first… Continue Reading →