Tag USA
Straight off the bat I need to acknowledge prejudice. Plague Years are from Detroit the much-maligned city in Michigan that helped birth punk and metal and brought us Motown. I have family in Detroit and go there often. I have… Continue Reading →
Unholy levitating black monks Batman, what on earth is this? Well it certainly looks rather splendid turning up here on 180g vinyl and I prepared for a lesson in grim one-man black metal but one should never judge anything by… Continue Reading →
There is something formidable about a band that’s able to reinvent one of its core attributes and still be completely recognisable. For New York’s industrial punks, Uniform, this reinvention manifests itself in their percussion; previous albums have relied on a… Continue Reading →
Well, you should certainly recognise the artwork adorning the cover of this but what is that indecipherable band logo? Xasraug, right, ok. Now what about Indricothere the musician, surely not a hornless rhinoceros making all this noise? So, behind that… Continue Reading →
Every now and then a band comes along who completely shake the scene. Today we look at a band taking the Death Metal world by storm, but more of them in a moment. Essentially our band today are nothing new,… Continue Reading →
Anyone up for music that’s the equivalent of and goes well with stroboscopic light? Because that’s what 20 Buck Spin have got here for you. Industrial metal – and of a rather numbing kind. An unusual release this is for… Continue Reading →
Throwing everything but the kitchen sink (and sometimes even that) into your overall sound can be a recipe for disaster and you have to be an accomplished musician to pull it off and not have the result sounding like an… Continue Reading →
I’m such a nerd, and I’ve only leaned into it more and more as my life has gone on. I literally couldn’t care less what people think of me now, long gone is the bullied kid in high school, long… Continue Reading →
Vicious Rumors are a long-standing band In American heavy and power metal. Having formed in 1979 the band has had a very consistent career with 13 studio albums and four live releases under their belts. With such a long running… Continue Reading →
Another band from Portland, Oregon, the town where seemingly everybody makes music, and in many cases music of the darker kind. A new band from musical Portland, where people – the mayor included – are standing up against Trump, his… Continue Reading →
I’m sure many of you, like me, follow labels, because they have a sense of what bands are good and US black metallers Ominous Resurrection have been picked by the Norwegian label for this second album. The trio comprising this… Continue Reading →
Being a reviewer is often times somewhat masochistic, we’ll put ourselves in positions that will likely cause us audible horror. The band who we speak of today, Cultus Profano are somewhere in the middle of that for me. Their debut… Continue Reading →