It’s a perverse notion but metal is never better than when the world has flushed itself down the nearest shit-spattered toilet. Metal thrives on indignation and [...]
In case you missed it is our new regular feature which highlights outstanding albums, from the last 5 years, which may have passed you by. Who: Diamond Head Album: Diamond [...]
In 1995, Paradise Lost released what is, arguably, their masterpiece in the shape of Draconian Times, an album that defined them creatively and marked them out as one of the [...]
After seven long years, two-man hate unit Zebadiah Crowe have finally returned from the darkest confines of the netherworld, ready to regale us with raucous and rancid [...]
Diehard exponents of the noble art of heavy metal since 1995, Orange Goblin have spent the last two and a half decades steadily but surely establishing themselves as one of [...]
Since forming in 2007, the UK’s Desert Storm have made quite a name for themselves with support slots for a veritable who’s who of the doom/sludge scene – [...]
Here’s just 15 one album wonders in metal (there are, of course, lots more) – classic albums from bands who apparently had a ‘one and done’ motto to [...]
Three years on from the monolithic slab of filth-encrusted doom that was Medusa and Paradise Lost have returned with album number 16! Having released some of their heaviest [...]
After leaving Iron Maiden in 1999, Blaze Bayley didn’t hang up his boots; although nobody would have blamed him for quitting the music business for good. Instead, [...]
The hangman’s comin’ and we’re all fucked! That sentiment alone pretty much sums up Noosed, a UK noise / grind / crust / sludge collective whose new EP, [...]