Having heard rather good and promising things about UK outfit House Of Hatchets there was genuine intrigue and a sense of real anticipation facing the band’s debut album, Reach. Across ten slabs of multi-flavoured alternative metal, the encounter swiftly revealed… Read More ›
Alternative Metal
TREP – Lucian EP
Since forming two years back, Welsh metallers TREP has earned potent support and reputation across South Wales. Now they are hoping to spark similar reactions further afield with the release of their debut EP, Lucian and with it offering up… Read More ›
Down To The Bunker – Misery
A growling, snarling beast of a release, Misery is the debut album from Swiss quintet Down To The Bunker and an encounter which marks them out as one richly promising, indeed already impressive proposition. Offering up nine tracks of alt… Read More ›
Chasing Dragons – Faction
There is no doubt there has been plenty of eager anticipation for the debut album from British rockers Chasing Dragons, especially since the release of their last EP, Faction: Prologue, a couple years back. It was a kind of teaser… Read More ›
Chandrian Kill – Bring Out Your Dead
Maybe there should be no surprise the craft and magnetism to the Bring Out Your Dead EP, the debut release from British outfit Chandrian Kill, but it still makes for a strikingly unexpected and attention entangling introduction. The band is… Read More ›
Flirtation amidst debris: exploring the aural tempest of Cohesion
“If music is the machine, Cohesion are the engine. They drive fast, hit hard and have no need for brakes.” The band’s own words sum up the energy, intensity, and force of their industrial scented alternative metal . With their… Read More ›
VNDTA – Pale Glow
The moments of being truly bowled over by a release or ‘new’ band, introduction wise, seem to be far and few between right now but leave us on our backs with jaw wide open with exhilarated awe is just what… Read More ›
Animosity Kills – Severance
Well over two years ago, Norwegian outfit Animosity Kills stole attention with their first EP, Manipulative. It offered up a rousing mix of heavy and thrash metal, a fusion nurtured in the influence of bands such as Metallica, Iron Maiden,… Read More ›
Blinding Sparks – Brutal Awakening
It has been a fair while coming but French metallers Blinding Sparks recently unleashed their debut album, Brutal Awakening, and it is a jewel of a proposition; a flawed one maybe but a real treasure nonetheless. Sarreguemines hailing Blinding Sparks… Read More ›
Possessor – The Ripper
UK metallers Possessor have been a band fear and lust has equally and simultaneously been spawned for in the face of each release uncaged since they emerged within the death throes of 2013. The band’s doom nurtured, thrash fuelled sound… Read More ›