Immersing in hauntingly melancholic adventures has been a regularly rewarding experience since first being enveloped by the dark sounds Of Chasing Ghosts through 2016 single Everything Changes. Even so it is hard to remember being more enthralled and emotionally engaged… Read More ›
Cathedral
Transport League – A Million Volt Scream
The fifteen years since first leaving Lucifer’s fires has not dampened the roar in the heart and throat of Transport League or the voracious swing in their feral enterprise, nor indeed the ravenous virulence of a sound which is always… Read More ›
The Bendal Interlude – Reign of the Unblinking Eye
Attempting to build on the reputation and acclaim earned through their previous clutch of EPs, British metallers The Bendal Interlude unleash their debut album; a cauldron of sludge, stoner, and blues with psych and thrash metal to sear and ignite… Read More ›
Church of Misery – And Then There Were None
As much as anticipation, there was plenty of extra intrigue involved leading to the release of And Then There Were None, the new album from Church of Misery. The sixth full-length from the Japan bred band, it is also the… Read More ›
Deep Desolation – Rites Of Blasphemy
Casting a captivating web of sludge and doom drenched black metal ripe with fiery psychedelic grooves Polish metallers Deep Desolation make a very convincing argument for turning to the dark side with latest album Rites Of Blasphemy. The release is… Read More ›
King Goat – Self Titled EP
King Goat is an intimidating provocation, heavy in intent and in weight, and as evidenced by their new self-titled EP, mightily compelling. Consisting of three immensely imposing tracks stretched by tempestuous riffs and impossibly alluring grooves, the release… Read More ›
Asomvel – Knuckle Duster
Roaring at and bruising up the senses with a riot of belligerence and unkempt rock ‘n’ roll, Knuckle Duster the new album from UK band Asomvel is an uncompromising and thrilling storm of prime beef heavy metal. With a more… Read More ›
The Lumberjack Feedback – Hand of Glory
Dramatic and compelling, the Hand of Glory EP from French instrumental metallers The Lumberjack Feedback is a masterful journey through cavernous shadows and depths, a tension packed encounter of doom and sludge metal. Consisting of two tracks lasting seventeen minutes… Read More ›
Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods
Continuing their ever impressive and powerful stance within melodic death metal, Amon Amarth unleash ninth album Deceiver of the Gods, a thunderous expanse of aggressive energy, dynamic enterprise, and melodic flames. Bursting with the prime essences and sounds the band… Read More ›
Hooded Menace: Effigies Of Evil
With one of the heaviest presences to consume the senses this year, Effigies Of Evil from Finnish death metalers Hooded Menace is a plundering exhaustive chasm of never ending intensity and weighty ravenous breath. The release overwhelms and suffocates whilst… Read More ›