ALBUM REVIEW: ROTTEN SOUND - APOCALYPSE
FINLAND'S NOISE VETERANS MAKE A RARE RETURN WITH A SAVAGE LESSON IN GRINDCORE'S CORE VALUES A kick to the groin isn’t a complex,...
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- Mar 29
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: DOWNFALL OF GAIA – SILHOUTTES OF DISGUST
GERMANS CREATE AN ENGULFING BLEAK ATMOSPHERE WHERE BLACKENED THRASH, CRUST PUNK & EMOTIONAL POST METAL COLLIDE It’s baffling how some...
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- Mar 19
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: MAJESTIES - VAST REACHES UNCLAIMED
MINNESOTANS SALUTE THE CRACKLING ENERGY OF EARLY MELODEATH The mid-90s Gothenburg Sound has cast a long shadow for good and bad. In the...
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- Mar 6
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: HOST - IX
PARADISE LOST SIDE PROJECT RECOUNTS GOTH ROCK 80s A whole season of BBC’s Question Time couldn’t cram in the online debates that rage...
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- Mar 2
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: OAK - DISINTEGRATE
HYPNOTIC, IMMERSIVE DOOM WITH NO HALF EMOTIONAL MEASURES. Close your eyes and try to visualise something punitively futile and...
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- Feb 24
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: HELLRIPPER - WARLOCKS GRIM & WITHERED HAGS
SET YOUR FLUX CAPACITOR TO THE ERA OF CUT OFF DENIMS OVER LEATHER Set your flux capacitor for the era of denim cut-offs over leather...
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- Feb 20
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: ALL OUT WAR - CELESTIAL ROT
BRUTAL HARDCORE MEETS FREEZING BLACK METAL IN A DARK ALLEY All Out War’s Instagram bio describes them as Apocalyptic Filth Metal and, by...
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- Feb 10
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: MEMORIAM - RISE TO POWER
UNPRETENTIOUS FULL METAL RACKET You know those old war movies where a band disparate yet endearingly miscreant veterans, whose discipline...
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- Feb 5
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: WOTHROSCH - ODIUM
A GRIM WALLOW IN THE ABYSS - BLACKENED DEATH METAL DEBUT FROM GREECE Why peer sheepishly into the abyss when you can have full-on...
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- Jan 26
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: KATATONIA - SKY VOID OF STARS
MELANCHOLY RE-IMAGINED WITH A PLUSH CINEMATIC TWIST FROM THE SWEDISH MAESTROS OF MAUDLIN Very seldom do you get a band that truly don’t...
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- Jan 19
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: OBITUARY - DYING OF EVERYTHING
DEATH METAL GRAND DADDIES WITH NO FRILLS ATTACHED The grand daddies of death are causing an online kafuffle. Almost everyone (aside from...
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- Jan 13
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: KOLLAPS\E - PHANTOM CENTRE
SAVAGE POST-METAL SLUDGE DEBUT FROM SWEDISH BRUTALISTS KOLLAPS\E hail from Sweden and with only an EP from last year to their name...
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- Jan 10
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: THE HOWLING VOID - INTO A DARKNESS EVER MORE PROFOUND
FUNERALLY. DOOMY. SYNTHY. There is a good chance you have not yet heard of The Howling Void despite this being the band's eighth album....
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- Jan 5
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: CRYPT ROT - AN ANCIENT SUMMONING
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW AND A BRUTAL DEBUT The first album review of 2023 has been languishing for a while and goes to Crypt Rot...
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- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: IN THE WOODS - DIVERSUM
NORWEGIANS TRADE RUNES FOR ANTHEMIC ROCK DYNAMICS Norway’s In The Woods were responsible for some of the most authentic and far-sighted...
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- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: DAVID MAXIM MICIC - BILO IV
LONG WAIT BESTOWS A TESTAMENT OF ECCENTRIC PROG AMBITION Serbian multi-instrumentalist David Maxim Micic releases his new 11-track record...
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- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
EP REVIEW: NO CURE - CURSED FROM BIRTH
SEETHING HOME ALABAMA Those from the era of old school mosh pits tend not to fully ‘get’ crowd killing. You read this a lot online. Old...
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- Nov 15, 2022
- 3 min
ALBUM REVIEW: DEVIN TOWNSEND - LIGHTWORK
PROLIFIC CANADIAN MADMAN TONES DOWN THE INTENSITY BUT NOT THE IMPACT Prog metal genius Devin Townsend returns with his newest studio...
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- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: REVEREND MOTHER – DAMNED BLESSING
RETRO PSYCHEDELIC ROCK WITH NEW YORK COOL There has recently been a bottleneck of releases that sit decidedly within the musical...
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- Oct 27, 2022
- 2 min
ALBUM REVIEW: STRIGOI - VISCERA
A PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCENT TO THE ABYSS Gregor MacIntosh is seemingly a man intent on descending ever deeper into the unlit pits of...
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