Black Coast – Ill Minds Vol.2
Without need for a long winding introduction, Black Coast kick straight into 'Ill Minds Vol.2' (Primordial) where they left off. Hard-beating drums and Gojira-esque riffs fill the room as Charlie...
View ArticleColt 48 – Negatives
During the 00s, Alternative Metal exploded and has acted as the gateway for many listeners to discover the vast sonic ground which is under the banner of Metal. The question is: does Colt 48’s new...
View ArticleSection H8 – Phase One
As the band kick in underneath the yelped vocals, there’s a carnal urge to flip tables and spin kick like your life depends on it. In a mere forty seconds, Section H8 are able to tap in to the base...
View ArticleThousand Thoughts – Thousand Thoughts EP
Making it in Hollywood hardly seems realistic but if you were to look closely the story of a Thousand Thoughts, is a Hollywood story. In just a year Ethan Smith, Jack Botterill, Matt Morrell and Jed...
View ArticleThe Glorious Rebellion – Scholars of War
An attacked guitar fades in with a straight Rock n’ Roll riff, before spacious strings reverberate around the listeners’ skulls. They give way into the abyss as an almighty Sludge riff threatens to...
View ArticleTides Of Sulfur – Paralysis Of Reason
Despite having released a host of material since its 2012 inception, Glamorgan trio Tides Of Sulfur has issued just one album, the coruscating 'Extinction Curse' (self-release) in 2016. New EP...
View Article1349 – Dødskamp
In addition to being one of Norway’s finest and most consistent Black Metal purveyors, we now know that 1349 are also patrons to the fine arts. You see, 1349 was part of a group of artists selected by...
View ArticleManowar – The Final Battle I
Seven years after their last (original) studio release, the irrepressible Manowar return to the hall (well, two original members and two new guys anyway) atop their mighty steeds, gripping a new EP...
View ArticleBlood Command – Return Of The Arsonist
While Return Of The Arsonist (Fysisk Format) is a spiritual successor to the Hand Us The Alpha Male EP, the eight-year gap really shows the songwriting prowess Blood Command have amassed. There is less...
View ArticleHamferð – Ódn
Apart from being a staple of the UK shipping forecast and consistently failing to progress from the qualifying stages of the World Cup, the Faroe Islands are still a relatively unknown quantity for...
View ArticleSworn Amongst – Reclamation
Sworn Amongst are one of the best-kept secrets in UK Metal - there is something familiar yet different to their approach to modern Metalcore. Indeed new EP Reclamation (Famined Records) is full to the...
View ArticleThe Shrine – Cruel World EP
Despite a brief flirtation with the Century Media label, the decade-long career of Los Angeles grease punks The Shrine has sailed largely deserted seas. As the line-up has grown, however, so has the...
View ArticleJoyous Wolf – A Place In Time
Once in a blue moon does a band come barreling onto the music scene that makes every person who hears them go, "If Heaven had an in house band, it would be these guys". Joyous Wolf is a once in a blue...
View ArticleVader – Thy Messenger
Ok, laying my cards down on the table. I, Hans Lopez, fully admit that I don't think I've encountered a Vader release that I didn't enjoy. The way they combine brutal riffs, mind-flaying solos, and...
View ArticleRedbait – Cages
These days I live a fairly clean lifestyle. I'm working out almost every day, cut way back on carbs and sugar and smoke more weed than I do drink. Hell, in the ultimate piece of sacrilege I've even...
View ArticleHigh Tone Son Of A Bitch – Death Of A New Day / Eye In The Sky
High Tone Son Of A Bitch. That's it right there eh?! 'Nuff said. Only it's not even the half of it. Back in 2007, with merely one EP to the Oakland quintet's name, ex-Cruevo guitarist Drew Kott fell...
View ArticleWormed – Metaportal
Something about EP releases in the past few years have left a bigger impact on me as a listener than full releases. The latest EP release from tech-death veterans Wormed, entitled Metaportal (Season of...
View ArticleThe Contortionist – Our Bones EP
Midwestern progressive metal act, The Contortionist, return with another chapter in their transformation story. This particular collection of tracks making up a quick, yet most satisfying, EP is...
View ArticleEP REVIEW: Lonely Dakota – End of Days
Despite their stateside sounding name Lonely Dakota are a British quartet who formed at the tail end of 2015. With a few lineup changes and singles in between, including 2018s 'Dead Stories', this year...
View ArticleEP REVIEW: Municipal Waste – The Last Rager
You know the old idiom, “you can't judge a book by its cover”? Yeah, well, it's nonsense. Just take one quick look at the cover to The Last Rager (Nuclear Blast), the new EP from Virginian beermonsters...
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