Tag USA
A good album title has always been a sellable gimmick throughout the history of music, but it’s something else to come across an album whose name reflects just how much you are enjoying it and never want the experience to… Continue Reading →
Those of you who follow the underground black metal scene, if you can call it that these days with practically everything being available at your fingertips, will probably know this US black metal act because the band members have played… Continue Reading →
A desolate scene decorates the cover of Uniform’s new album American Standard. In it, a power plant or some kind of processing site is blasting smoke into the air, and the yellow hue of the semi-dark scene suggests heavy pollution…. Continue Reading →
Emerging from the South Carolina metal scene in 2017, Demiser have chipped away at their blackened thrash craft to make their Metal Blade label debut with sophomore album “Slave To The Scythe”. The five lads who identify themselves individually as… Continue Reading →
Feels like this has been talked about for a loooooong time. I have been receiving singles and preview tracks for a few months which has made my mouth water and my ears cower in anticipation. Nails are a band that… Continue Reading →
Are you ready for some “hideous rituals of blood and fire”, some music said to appeal to fans of bands such as Godflesh, Einstürzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Ramleh, Abruptum, Lustmord, Swans and more? Are you sure? The reason I’m double… Continue Reading →
When it comes to art, very little is new. Yes, occasionally a new bit of technology comes along to allow a brief semblance of uniqueness, but then everyone jumps on the bandwagon and what was fresh and sparkling quickly becomes… Continue Reading →
Apparently US act Mausoleum are “the infernal purveyors of Zombiecult Death Metal” and one could wonder just where they interred themselves for the last thirteen years after releasing second album ‘Back From The Funeral’ in 2011. Defiling The Decayed is… Continue Reading →
Laceration is a very popular band name, especially in the USA, seeing as there are eight just from the US that have or have had this moniker. This version is from California and deals out some hefty death metal that… Continue Reading →
Quite the mob here with no less than ten members taking up arms around who I assume to be Emperor in chief Bigg o))) aka Brian “Itztlakamayeh” Ortiz, also noticeably of Xibalba. The Californian based crew obviously take inspiration from… Continue Reading →
Well I managed to write one review that was not thematically inclined towards the end of the world recently but we are back on very familiar scorched earth here. There must be something in the air and here it is… Continue Reading →
This is album number five for this US heavy/power metal band. Throughout their career they have provided, what I term happy heavy metal. The foundations of which are built from the forefathers of our lovely heavy metal genre, but lazily… Continue Reading →