“I’m gonna kick your Fuckin Ass!!” That’s how Dave Grohl opened up the Foo Fighters in the London Stadium before the crowd exploded to life as “All My Life” kicked things off. With an impact as powerful as it was… Continue Reading →
When the new Greenleaf album arrived in my in tray for review, I was genuinely amazed to discover that in their assorted ever evolving line-ups the band has now been putting out music for a whole quarter of a century…. Continue Reading →
I’m surprised I’ve not heard of or stumbled across this US technical death metal band since they formed in 2010 and released a debut in 2012. Bands like this usually cross my path at some point during my trawls for… Continue Reading →
The appeal of this album went up for me when I read the promise of something dark and vicious and of a more “violent atmosphere” than its predecessor “Livre Troisième” (2021). The work of Les Chants du Hasard goes under… Continue Reading →
Readers, can it really be five years since Crypt Sermon released their last album, “The Ruins of Fading Light?”. This traditional doom / heavy metal sextet have been together since 2013, and based principally in Philadelphia. Along with the likes… Continue Reading →
At risk of repeating myself too much I suggest that you check out my review of Anthropophagus Depravity’s debut Apocalypto for some added background. I’ll skim over the basics though. Anthropophagus Depravity are an Indonesian Brutal Death Metal band with… Continue Reading →
If you have immersed yourself in the numerous genepools of metal genres over a long period of time, one thing that tends to enter the mind of an audiophile is sorting certain bands or genres into the right time of… Continue Reading →
Black metal is an ever widening and diversifying genre, something that delights me with every new release as it annoys all the gatekeepers who want everyone to sound like something recorded on a kids’ tape recorder in a Norwegian basement… Continue Reading →
I first became acquainted with this band almost 25 years ago courtesy of a song called “Tat Twam Asi”, which was on a sampler or something. I remember it being really interesting, reflecting the nu-metal trend of the time while… Continue Reading →
Roman’s, Greeks, biblical tales, World Wars, big battles; there’s plenty going on here just in the lyrics and narrative themes on this second album from this Toulouse based band. I was looking at the titles and the likes of ‘The… Continue Reading →
For many years now, multi-instrumentalist Dana Schechter, the main woman behind Insect Ark, has been making music “built from the churning of raw insides”. Assisted by varying collaborators, she has released four full-length albums under that moniker the latest of… Continue Reading →
Of all the extreme metal genres, Thrash Metal perhaps has been the most stubborn and refused to die. Spawning from the doldrums of traditional Heavy Metal, it has stubbornly clung on. Through the dreadful grunge years, through alt-metal and beyond,… Continue Reading →