There’s always a band that creeps under the radar for years. You hear whispers about them, friends mention them in passing, comments reference them on social media. You [...]
January can often seem like a bit of a bleak month – what with the terrible weather and coming after the hustle and bustle of Christmas – so trust those gloomy [...]
Torso is the creature that has risen from the grave of the slowly decomposing corpse that was the UK’s Possessor. When this horror metal outfit bit the dust in 2021, [...]
Megadeth‘s third album, So Far, So Good… So What! turns 35 years old today and it remains a sure-fire classic of 80s thrash. Of course, being sandwiched in [...]
Sonic Violence may not be as ferocious an attack on the ol’ ear-holes as its title and cover art suggests but Columbia’s Victimized still riff up a relatively [...]
Saxon are truly one of the great heavy metal bands of all time – and arguably the best traditional metal act operating in Britain today – but when it comes to [...]
With 16 studio albums to choose from (we haven’t included Metal Jukebox or Unarmed in this), whittling down the 5 essential albums from these power metal legends [...]
Abyssal Worm specialise in the kind of aural cacophony that would have even the most ardent extreme metal fan begging for mercy. These German’s couldn’t give two [...]
The sea scares the shit out of us. It’s too big and too damn watery for our liking and with funeral doom merchants Ahab inspired this time by Jules Verne’s [...]
These Bay Area titans of thrash need no introduction and with 13 exemplary studio albums to choose from, we had a hard time whittling ’em down to – what we [...]