The new self-titled album from French band Drawers is an encounter dripping testosterone riff and rhythm, a dirt encrusted slab of sludge rock voracity which overwhelms the senses with a metal bred intensity and ferociousness. The band’s second album, it… Read More ›
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Hollow Leg – Instinct
Following on from the release of their well-received second album Abysmal last year, US sludge metal sculptors Hollow Leg have their debut beast re-released by Argonauta Records this month. A raw and caustically honed brute of a consuming and… Read More ›
Obelyskkh – Hymn To Pan
With the exceptional 2012 album White Lightnin’ thrusting its creators upon the doom/sludge metal map it is fair to say that anticipation for its successor was hunger driven. The third album Hymn To Pan from German metallers Obelyskkh more than… Read More ›
All Pigs Must Die – Nothing Violates This Nature
All you need to know about Nothing Violates This Nature, the second album from Massachusetts-based All Pigs Must Die Nasty to warrant full investigation is that it is simply NASTY!! Corrosively nasty in intent, sonically nasty in sound, and undiluted… Read More ›
Clashing sinews and sonic deities: an interview with Gregg Higgins of Venomous Maximus
Rock/metal, however you wish to describe the enthralling leviathan of invading shadows and seriously addictive melodic alchemy that is the music of Venomous Maximus it is a confrontation which leaves you gasping and hungry for more. The recent worldwide re-release… Read More ›
Venomous Maximus: Beg Upon The Light
Released in North America last year, Beg Upon The Light the debut album of Texan Dark Occult Metal band Venomous Maximus gets its worldwide unleashing via Napalm Records, and a powerful deep mark it is sure to make. Ten tracks… 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 ›
Carving Greater Visions: and interview with Carl Whitbread from Lo!
Australian noise violators Lo! made an impressive entrance upon the world two years ago with the release of their startling and riveting debut album Look And Behold, now the return with its successor Monstrorum Historia, a sonic beast of a… Read More ›
Mammoth Mammoth: Vol: III Hell’s Likely
Wonderfully bruising and insatiably riotous Australian rockers Mammoth Mammoth are primed to ignite the world in a furious and unapologetic dirty brawl of rock n roll. The quartet has taken their homeland by storm and with… Read More ›
Obelyskkh: White Lightnin’
Creating slabs of majestic and impactful thunderous doom/sludge metal with the riches of stoner and classic metal oozing from every breath, White Lightnin’ from German metalers Obelyskkh is a mighty and formidable release which ignites primal and deep pleasures within…. Read More ›