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Grave Ritual – Morbid Throne (Dark Descent)

Bestial. Primitive. Morbid. No, not a description of my sex life (….although) but an accurate summary of this cracker from Grave Ritual. If you’ve not heard of the band before, they formed in 2009 after Ryan (vocals / guitar)  &… Continue Reading →

Saviours – Palace of Vision (Listenable)

Saviours are one of those bands that are hard to pin down into one category, they have plenty of metal and stoner included for good measure, the nearest comparison would be High On Fire or even the first release by… Continue Reading →

Corrections House – Know How To Carry A Whip (Neurot)

The crew behind this lot are all well known musicians in their own right coming from such diverse acts as Minsk, Eyehategod, Buried At Sea, Twilight, Yakuza, Neurosis and Nachtmystium, to name but a few. Putting them together in an… Continue Reading →

Behold the Monolith – Architects of the Void (S/R)

LA’s BTM are a stoner/doom band, who unfortunately lost their vocalist in a car accident recently, and have regrouped with a new line-up featuring Jordan Nailey on vocals and bassist Jason Casanova whom some of you might know from Sasquatch…. Continue Reading →

Christian Death – The Root Of All Evilution (Season Of Mist)

Unless you had caught them on tour over the last couple of years you may have thought that Christian Death were finally errr dead! Not in the slightest it would appear as Valor Kand, Maitri and Jason Frantz are finally… Continue Reading →

Malevolent Creation – Dead Man’s Path (Century Media)

Here we have album number twelve from Malevolent Creation. Aside from mentioning their status as one of the pioneering bands from the early ’90s Floridian death metal scene, I think it’s fair to assume that they require little introduction. Five… Continue Reading →

Queensrÿche – Condition Hüman (Century Media)

Well it was bound to happen, both Queensrÿche and Operation: Mindcrime releasing albums pretty close to each other. You have to wonder whether this was intention or just coincidence but having already dealt with Geoff Tate’s musical disappointment, maybe his… Continue Reading →

Kylesa – Exhausting Fire (Season of Mist)

It’s all too easy to take a band for granted, especially when they’ve been doing their thing for as long as Kylesa have. However, if we take a few moments to hark back to 2001, when they first formed, sludge… Continue Reading →

Monster Magnet – Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux) (Napalm)

As a rule, I really don’t like “remix” albums. In the pop world, the word simply seems to indicate no more than a tweaking of the auto-tune and changing the beat of the drum machine. Even in the world of… Continue Reading →

WASP – Golgotha (Napalm)

Love them or hate them, WASP have been at the pinnacle of the music scene for a number of years, this is their latest opus that follows an unusual long break between albums. For the record, frontman and long standing… Continue Reading →

Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death (Southern Lord)

For your average metal extremist, raw, unadulterated death metal is always going to be greatly appreciated. Those deeply satisfying, gravelly growls teamed with signature riffs and infectious grooves are guaranteed to get heads banging. One group paying a fantastic tribute… Continue Reading →

Huntress – Static (Napalm)

For all their positives, Huntress have historically been slated by the press and fans in regards their previous two releases, so why does this continue? Are you not actually evaluating the releases objectively and just trolling and joining the witch… Continue Reading →

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