Tag USA
My first experience of this uncompromising and intense technical death metal outfit was back in 2018 in the much beloved and missed Maguires Pizza Bar when they played with Neuroma in their final ever hometown show. The band were a… Continue Reading →
Heavy as a heavy thing – that is the best way to describe Thou from Baton Rouge. They steamrollered into my ears during the cursed pandemic with their magnificent collaboration project “May Our Chambers Be Full”. The question I had at… Continue Reading →
There probably aren’t many more popular doom acts than Arkansas crew Pallbearer. They made waves with a series of well-regarded releases in the late 2000’s and teens, but their last record was actually “Forgotten Days” back in 2020. Of course,… Continue Reading →
“Texas Desert Rock” is a music style that has been applied to Austin rockers High Desert Queen. The moniker is well deserved too. Their sophomore album, “Palm Reader” is not straight out desert rock. The four piece band delve into… Continue Reading →
Is it just me or when you see Thrash fans, or any subgenre fans for that matter in single genre patch jackets you see some underground similarities. However, you often never bother to check those bands out despite seeing the… Continue Reading →
Well Göden basically is the collaboration of ‘Spacewinds’ (a certain Stephen Flam of legendary slow-mo deathsters Winter) with ‘Nyxta’ (Vas Kallas of indusrial/goth duo Hanzel Und Gretyl) and ex-Winter session keyboardist Tony Pinnisi. And if you’re guessing ‘so this is… Continue Reading →
Mysticism and nature make for good bedfellows and so too do the bands on this split album, embracing the raptures of the elements through atmospheric black metal. The drab colours of the artwork may have you envisaging the cold, dark… Continue Reading →
An intersection of “forward-thinking Thrash and Prog Metal” is what’s offered by this US band. “When Time Becomes Loss” is their fourth album. Old school, technical thrash … such is “Morbid Reflections”. Round and round goes the riff in a… Continue Reading →
When I covered this US bands album ‘Paradox’ I explained that Mike Browning formed this band after firstly creating After Death subsequent to his firing/leaving of the original Nocturnus in the 90s. After that he changed the name to Nocturnus… Continue Reading →
Paleobotany is Botanist’s 12th album yet I had not heard of them. It would appear that my knowledge of plant focussed avant-garde metal was lacking until very recently. Let’s not dwell on the past though eh? Actually, let’s do just… Continue Reading →
Newsflash, Death Metal is cool again guys! Bands like 200 Stab Wounds, Frozen Soul, Fuming Mouth and Celestial Sanctuary appear to be paving some sort of new way. Towing a line between the modern and extremely popular Hardcore scene and… Continue Reading →
Riot (the V has something to do with the number of vocalists or something) have been around since before most of you were born. 1975. First release a couple of years later. I’m old and even I only took note… Continue Reading →