The title of the email said ‘Shining’ and we opened it in a wave of excitement thinking we were going to be reviewing something by those Norwegian progressive, black jazz [...]
When news emerged in 2015 that the Pepper Keenan-fronted incarnation of Corrosion Of Conformity had reunited for a tour, fans of top quality rock/metal breathed a collective [...]
The new wave of traditional heavy metal movement is a wonderful thing, with bands ably recalling the glory days of heavy metal by honouring the forefathers of the genre while [...]
From the sounds of it, Bloodshot Dawn’s third album may as well be considered a full reboot as following their last effort, Demons, founder member Josh McMorran promptly [...]
Almanac, the symphonic metal powerhouse featuring former Rage guitarist Victor Smolski, are back with sophomore release Kingslayer – available now via Nuclear [...]
There’s an almost romantic classicism to the debut album from Cloak, a neo-classical, occult-obsessed first full-length that takes the origins of death metal and the [...]
Jupiterian, São Paulo’s masked quartet, returns with their second full-length release that’s chock full of ugly, industrial doom. Indeed, the title [...]
Iron Monkey, a name once synonymous with the UK’s underground and one responsible for ushering in a new era of UK sludge supremacy, have returned. But, after all these [...]
We waited a while to review King Leviathan’s debut, Paean Heretica. We let the noise die down, gave ourselves some time to absorb it fully, instead of rush-releasing a [...]
When the main axis of your band contains doom metal overlord (and Rise Above Records founder) Lee Dorrian and ex-Electric Wizard guitarist Tim Bagshaw, then it doesn’t [...]