Overkill – The Grinding Wheel – Album Review
Overkill are one of those bands that seem to split metal fans down the middle. Opinion sees the New Jersey wrecking crew painted either as thrashing demigods or second rate [...]
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Trivium + Support – Belfast Limelight – 12 February 2017
Despite being regular visitors to the UK over the years, it turns out that this is the first time in eight years that Trivium have deemed Belfast worthy of their presence. No [...]
1968 – Fortuna Havana – EP Review
Considering that it was arguably the UK that first spawned blues inspired heavy metal it can be quite surprising to find that most of the bands making a good fist of [...]
The Ten Best Motörhead Songs From 1984 – 2015
With an influence that was more than just wide-reaching, Motörhead touched a multitude of genres and broke into the mainstream….no mean feat when you made as much [...]
Terrifier – Weapons Of Thrash Destruction – Album Review
With some bands and their albums it can sometimes be difficult to work out what genre of music they’re peddling. Not so with Canadian reprobates Terrifier – a [...]
Plainride – Return Of The Jackalope – Album Review
The last handful of years has seen an explosion of bands worshipping at the altar of 70’s style classic rock and most of them would have been barely born in that [...]
White Light Cemetery – Careful What You Wish For – Album Review
When it comes to producing sludgy, filth encrusted heavy metal they must be putting something in the water down in the state of Louisiana! Having formed in 2008 – and [...]
Acid Brigade – Addicted To Distortion – Demo Review
Brazil has long been a well known breeding ground for thrash bands. Maybe it’s their climate or maybe it has to do with their society/government but surely the [...]
Backwoods Payback – Fire Not Reason – Album Review
There’s something to be said about a straight up, no bullshit rock band just plugging in and giving it some serious welly and that is exactly what Backwoods Payback do [...]
Resurrections [2]: Pulkas – Greed (1998)
Following a debate on social media in relation to the health of our beloved metal scene in the 90’s, it got us thinking about whether things were really as bad as it [...]