Tag USA
A couple of days before this appeared on the new releases list from Ave Noctum towers I read an article online featuring Knoll. It was one of those ones to watch or get your ears round this shit kind of affairs from either… Continue Reading →
The new EP by Volcandra has me excited because I get to talk about one of my favorite things: videogames. When I first listened to Border World, I thought it was alright. I was unfamiliar with the name but I… Continue Reading →
Lingering around the review list and casting a filthy miasma this US based power trio were crying out ‘In The Name Of Death’ for some coverage. Noting that they are described as playing a form of ‘blackgrind’ ala war metal… Continue Reading →
I lucked on to this Brooklyn band just before the review copy arrived; some social media post, a picture that made me think ‘they look suitably obnoxious and anti-social. Kinda like Gehennah… ” Wonder if they sound like that? ‘Gape… Continue Reading →
Texas is a definite hub for some huge Brutal Death Metal talent, Devourment and Viral Load particularly spring to mind. However, we can always do with some fresh faces on the scene and this time we’re talking about Texas Murder… Continue Reading →
High Castle Teleorkestra – The Egg That Never Opened (Radio Free Albemuth part 1) (Art as Catharsis)
Billed as Experimental/Cinema Italiano, this album has eccentricity written all over it. The inspiration here is sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick and in particular one of his novels “Radio Free Albemuth”. I confess that this reference and indeed the works… Continue Reading →
In this modern world of short attention spans where any Tom, Dick and Harry can sit in their bedrooms and spit out album after album, Kardashev have been quietly plodding away in Arizona USA for around a decade, their sole… Continue Reading →
Well this is a little charmer of an EP out of Chicago. A nice, gnarly build up on ‘Sultans Of Incest’ before the rabid dogs are unleashed in an avalanche of old school filthy death metal with all the subtlety… Continue Reading →
Melodic doom/death from Pittsburgh. This is apparently their tenth year together, although they aren’t a band which until up until this point I had heard of. The accompanying blurb mentioned a few bands that would suggest that they would be… Continue Reading →
The second album by the trio from New York, a year after releasing their début, consisting of brothers Bryce and Reece Maopolski on guitars and bass respectively, but sharing vocal duties with the former taking care of the growls while… Continue Reading →
If you’re an old git, like me, who was around at the beginning of the death metal explosion in the mid to late 80s and early 90s then you may have come across this US death metal act when they… Continue Reading →
Aside from the latest album by Canadian thrashers Tymo, ‘The Art Of A Maniac’, I have not heard a more incendiary thrash release in 2022, though I’m sure there are some. Even the latest Evil Invaders is a damp squib… Continue Reading →