Tag USA
Certain musical adventures, outputs, meanderings, experiments, trials, tribulations, and exercises in ego massaging are able, in certain circumstances, to fly under the radar and generally considered, reviewed, and appreciated from a musicality perspective rather than with any preconceived notions of… Continue Reading →
Get a bowl, chuck in a hideous name, yeah, Coathanger Abortion that’ll do. Shall they be American, hell yeah they should be. How about their label? Well, let’s make it someone reliable like Comatose. Okay, there we go a recipe… Continue Reading →
Since 2018 this Maryland Crossover/Thrash Metal horde have been honing their craft through multiple EP releases, as well as a demo earlier this year. Now though this US five-piece have unleashed their debut album and they’re doing it through one… Continue Reading →
This quartet out of Philly have taken a considerable amount of time perfecting their craft as this, their debut full-length comes a full five years after the ‘Pulsing Dark Absorptions’ of its previous EP. With no less than three members… Continue Reading →
As the seasons turn and the days become more autumnal, so my musical taste changes and I find myself seeking out more sombre, darker music and as it turns out this album fitted the bill perfectly. I first listened to… Continue Reading →
Alright, hands up, I hadn’t heard of Ripped to Shreds. Turns out the four piece of Californian-based extremists are making waves in the scene, and that Jubian is their third full length album since 2018. All of which really makes… Continue Reading →
This is the third full length album by the quartet from Tucson, Arizona, and the longest… Well almost, the debut was ten tracks in under 17 minutes, with the follow-up being fifteen tracks in 27 minutes, while this one is… Continue Reading →
Caustic Casanova are a bit of a many headed beast. Definitely not a band to slot themselves into any particular genre, theirs is a mash up of sludge, doom, psyche rock with a smattering of prog. Hailing from Washington DC,… Continue Reading →
Well, we’re in brutal death/borderline grind territory here with this debut EP. The pro-wrestling fans might also guess the subject of the title track too being about the fucking tragic murder of the family of Chris Benoit by Benoit and… Continue Reading →
I have certainly had a glut of top quality old school death metal to review recently plus some I’ve listened to on top as US grim filled death dealers Acephalix unleash their fourth grisly offering five years after they released… Continue Reading →
US proto-metal, 70’s rock and pure metal band Spellbook have their second release on offer. Their debut came out during the pandemic and was well received by yours truly. However, with a second album in the mix, the defining quality… Continue Reading →
Back on the slab and casting musical Y shaped incisions, everyone’s favourite revolting death metal surgeons return with their first full length album since 2015 release ‘Skull Grinder’. There has been one replacement since that outing with Greg Wilkinson the… Continue Reading →