Our antipodean cousins are hardly renowned for thrash (at least not in the 80’s and early 90’s anyway) but there was some supreme talent lurking down under, [...]
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 [...]
In the void left by German death metal giants Necros Christos (who called it quits in 2020), SIJIIN have arrived with their debut full-length LP, Sumerian Promises on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
German thrash was perfected by the Teutonic terrors of Sodom, Destruction and Kreator….the unholy trinity of German Thrash! Sodom – Persecution Mania (1987) Sodom‘s [...]
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 [...]
Funeral doom pioneers Skepticism take their time – no surprises there – and we’ve had to wait an arduously long 6 years for a follow-up to their experimental 2016 [...]
Old-school death metal band THE LURKING FEAR, featuring members of At The Gates, Disfear, God Macabre, Skitsystem, Tormented and The Haunted, return with their anxiously [...]
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 [...]