First it stirred, drawing immediate attention but at the same time it took its time to hone its muscles and refine its predatory instincts. Now the beast has risen and prowling the metal landscape with the world in its sights… Read More ›
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Skarthia – Legacy
Closing in on eleven years ago, SKARTHIA dramatically hit the spot for us and the UK metal scene with their debut album, Retaliate. Our closing words for our review of the release declared, “This is simply an outstanding album from… Read More ›
The Offering – Seeing the Elephant
Just when we suspected our favourite album of the year choices were clear cut comes another imposing contender, a release which tramples over its rivals with dispute heavy boots and dazzles the senses with its hungrily varied sound and invention…. Read More ›
ONELEGMAN – Event Horizon
Providing another reminder that as much as our radar keenly sweeps across the music world it is impossible to catch everything at any moment in time, Event Horizon is the new album from Italian metallers ONELEGMAN. It is the band’s… Read More ›
Fall Of Carthage – Drawn Into Madness
Since the release of previous album Emma Green in 2018, German metallers FALL OF CARTHAGE have been relatively quiet, the confinement of pandemic grip no doubt an oppressive factor. Now though, the band has returned to challenge and blister the… Read More ›
Anti-Clone – Human EP
Even as time seems to fly by, four years is a long time to wait and that is exactly how long UK extreme alternative metallers ANTI-CLONE had been on hiatus before announcing and unleashing their new single, Human. Having greedily… Read More ›
Headspawn – Pretty Ugly People
Providing a striking introduction to its creators, Pretty Ugly People is the debut EP from Brazilian groove metallers HEADSPAWN. It offers up four tracks from a band which forming in 2019 soon found themselves like the world derailed somewhat by… Read More ›
Ophelia’s Eye – Hopeless World
For the past couple of years real attention has been gathering pace around Swiss metallers OPHELIA’S EYE, a band which though previously gathering its craft and qualities together for growing interest truly lit public awareness around 2020 and certainly a… Read More ›
Misfire – Sympathy For The Ignorant
It is the primal instincts of thrash metal which predominantly gets our personal juices flowing like a river and so it seems equally so it is for US trio MISFIRE. The band has just unleashed their debut album and with… Read More ›
The Risen Dread – Night Hag
Under the pandemic forged restrictions of the past eighteen or so months, Irish metallers The Risen Dread utilised the time to work on and record their debut album and now with its highly anticipated arrival upon us it is a… Read More ›
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