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On paper, Chicagoan avantgarde sludge/post metal quartet Yakuza, (who lest we forget are not some johnny come lately outfit having been around for several iterations of the noise scene they were at the fulcrum of creating way back in 1999)… Continue Reading →
Like all other metal genres there are numerous sub-genres or styles associated with the evolution of bands and the genre communities they represent. Death metal is no stranger and it is now a firm belief in my mind that a… Continue Reading →
Green metal, avant-garde black metal, progressive metal, experimental metal … whatever it is, “VIII: Selenotrope” is Botanist’s eleventh full release. The VIII signifies that it is the eighth with Otrebor in sole charge. Otrebor is the composer and multi-instrumentalist, and… Continue Reading →
In the intervening six years between this US band’s debut, ‘Abhorrent Manifestation’ and this sophomore the band has released two splits, a demo, a live album and a box set, meaning the band has been busy despite the half decade… Continue Reading →
Cattle Decapitation couldn’t have released a better tenth album than this, the band has continually set benchmark after benchmark in death metal whether it has been their protogrind beginnings right to the obsidian darkness of the more progressive ‘Death Atlas’… Continue Reading →
Three years after the release of their debut, Fires in the Distance are back with their six song second album and their first with new drummer Jordan Rippe. The rest of the line-up remains unchanged with principal composer Yegor Savonin… Continue Reading →
Despite having been alive in no less than seven different consecutive decades (I had to check my maths, and damn, I wasn’t wrong!), I try not to be too set in my ways, and especially when it comes to music,… Continue Reading →
As I look back at my prior mournfully poor ramblings on this fine site that you are reading, I noticed that it is now at least a decade, yes a DECADE, since I started mentioning the beginnings a “Retro Rock… Continue Reading →
I was pleased when I read that this, the third album release from Enforced, was “an aggressive, no frills thrash record”. The previous album “Kill Grid” (2021) was exactly that, and I loved it. On the basis of that album… Continue Reading →
Ah, Vaultwraith. My favourite trve kvlt metal genre mixed up with my least favourite (only because power metal does not even figure on the chart). I expected this to be less groovy and more epic. Perhaps, my perception has been… Continue Reading →
It’s a bold choice, to say the least, to give your debut album a name that could so easily be read as “Shambolic Vibrations”, whether that misreading be by accident or design. Other brave choices include the blurb in the… Continue Reading →
I took this album on, on the expectation of something grandiose, or at least morbidly pleasant. The sample sounded promising. I won’t lie, my curiosity got the best of me. It might have also been because the band name is… Continue Reading →