Hitten – Triumph & Tragedy – Album Review
Hey you! Yeah you! The metalhead with their head forever buried in the darkness of the grave, you need to lighten up and Hitten’s classic metal is a perfect antidote to the [...]
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Protector – A Shedding Of Skin – Album Reissue Review
Thirty years ago cult German death-thrash band Protector released their third and most wonderfully corrosive album, titled A Shedding Of Skin, and Holy Roller Records have [...]
Count Raven – The Sixth Storm – Album Review
Getting doom metal fans to lift their gazes from their graveyards is no easy feat but Count Raven, Sweden’s masters of doom, may be able to do just that with their new [...]
Qrixkuor – Poison Palinopsia – Album Review
To the casual and sane music listener Qrixkuor’s first full-length release Poison Palinopsia is the aural equivalent of a deranged nightmare. For those of us who seek such [...]
Eteritus – Rotten Transition – Album Review
A welcome blast of guttural growls, groove and buzzsaw riffs – an old-school Swedish death metal fans wet dream in other words – it’s pretty damn fair to say [...]
Criminal – Sacrificio – Album Review
Chilean / UK death thrashers Criminal have been on the scene for a long ol’ while, effortlessly churning out slightly above average extremity since 1991. While never [...]
Stöner – Stoners Rule – Album Review
Stoners Rule, the debut album from Stöner, is as self-explanatory a title as they come and the fact that Stöner is the brainchild of stoner / desert rock legends [...]
Pestilential Shadows – Revenant – Album Review
After a 7 year absence, Australian black metallers Pestilential Shadows have finally emerged from the murk, heralding a new dawn for these frost-bitten souls. [...]
Doctor Smoke – Dreamers and the Dead – Album Review
Occult rock, beset by Ghost comparisons for over a decade now, is a tricky nut to crack. The likes of Orchid, Blood Ceremony and Uncle Acid and [...]
Thyrfing – Vanagandr – Album Review
Viking metal may not inspire the legions of stalwarts that it once did but with bands like Thyrfing still unleashing their killer pagan metal, there’s plenty of life left [...]