There is a sense of insanity to Destiny of the Gods, the new album from Detroit metallers Coven 13 (also known as just Coven), an almost schizophrenic intrigue and unpredictability to its invention which is just compelling. It has flaws… Read More ›
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Ten Foot Wizard – Return To The Infinite
Carrying intensive ravenous rhythms with heftier bones than found on over-weight mammoths and more addictive grooves than lined up at the start of a Nascar race, Return to the Infinite is a towering introduction to a band which in one… Read More ›
Thirteen Shots – Tales That Start With A Whisper
After the success of their excellent debut album Vaudeville just over a year ago, UK horror punk n rollers Thirteen Shots teased the appetite further with songs like Zombies From The USSR, a track which made up one of their… Read More ›
Shriek: Self Titled
The undoubted bastard sons of one unholy union between Misfits, The Ramones, and Calabrese with The Damned looking on with hellish mischief, US horror punk band Shriek is a band where once bitten by their insidiously infectious sounds a feverish… Read More ›
Dark corners and caustic intent: an interview with Varicella
A maelstrom of ravenous intensity and demonic caustic caresses, the debut EP from US industrial band Varicella has brought an uncompromising destructive start to the year. Released through the impressive emerging underground label Bluntface Records, We Belong Dead was a… Read More ›
Dirty Danzig: Horror Vibes From Nowhere
If you have the feeling in the dead of night that someone, something is watching with a dark lust in their eyes, then feel yourself very lucky if it is the crypt stalking horror rock conjurors Dirty Danzig…. Read More ›
Creepy Band: The Curse Of The Cloak
Uncanny in name and sound, Creepy Band is one of those encounters you never forget or drive out of your mind no matter your reaction to their unique and evocative sounds, though it is hard to imagine anyone… Read More ›
Lightning Swords of Death: Baphometic Chaosium
Primal and bleak, Baphometic Chaosium the new album from occult black metal band Lightning Swords Of Death, is an unforgiving and unrelenting torrent of evocative and menacing irreverence. It is uncompromising and challenging to the core,… Read More ›
Dr. Spookenstein – They Came From A World Long Dead
As mysterious as the shadows which undoubtedly spawned them, Dr. Spookenstein is an entity which remains in the dark but from their hidden domain unleashes sounds which equally thrive upon and incite nightmares as they surely ignite the passions. Stalking… Read More ›
Frost Giant: When Myth and History Merged into Mystery
Though it has been out a few months digitally and now physically, When Myth and History Merged into Mystery the debut EP from Pennsylvanian rock band Frost Giant has only just surged to our attention and thank goodness it has… Read More ›