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. [...]
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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 [...]
Lunar Ark – Recurring Nightmare – Album Review
Society’s inability to thrive outside of materialistic confines. The individualistic pursuit of monetary gain overshadowing our own need to protect the very air we breathe. [...]
Mastiff – Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth – Album Review
The UK’s Mastiff are hard. As nails. If you want the aural equivalent of being mugged down a dark alley by a gang of knife-wielding chavs simply because they’ve [...]
Journey Into Darkness – Infinite Universe, Infinite Death – Album Review
Journey into Darkness is the brainchild of ex-Sorrow guitarist Brett Clarin (whose 1992 Hatred and Disgust is a must-hear classic of death/doom) but don’t go expecting [...]
Mutant Blast – Detonation – EP Review
Finland’s Mutant Blast play death ‘n’ roll. So, you know exactly what to expect, right? Oodles of skanky groove my man, oodles of groove! A sub-genre [...]
Ghorot – Loss Of Light – Album Review
How black can blackened doom metal go, considering doom metal – by its very nature – is already pretty damn dark? If you’re Idaho blackened doom [...]
Ouija – Selenophile Impia – EP Review
It’s been a long ol’ time since Spanish black metallers Ouija last graced us with a release (8 years in fact) and despite these veterans having been on the [...]
Slowpoke – Slowpoke – Album Review
With aggressive growled vocals courtesy of Ben Chapman-Smith and Sabbathian psych-addled, stoner-doom riffs, Canada’s Slowpoke initially appear to have more in common [...]