It is a frustrating fact for music lovers, media and deserved attention that with the massive landscape of artists and releases to navigate year on year you are going to miss out on encounters which would have left a deep… Read More ›
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No Life On Earth – Nothing Is Real
Nothing Is Real is the debut EP from USA/Brazil metallers No Life On Earth, a band which we guess falls into that annoyingly named super group category of creativity. What is not a guess is that the release is one… Read More ›
Raging Speedhorn – Hard To Kill
At the time of its release four years back Lost Ritual had our appetite for Raging Speedhorn’s voracious metal sounds at their greediest by far. A longstanding but maybe not quite dedicated relish for their intensive roars was suddenly thrust… Read More ›
Fight The Fight – Deliverance
A raging storm upon ears which twisted the senses as it ferociously entangled the imagination. That pretty much sums up the impact the new album from Norwegian metallers Fight The Fight made upon us but only gives a clue to… Read More ›
Orbit Culture – Nija
Though they have been luring rich acclaim since emerging back in 2013, new album Nija is The RR’s first real introduction to Swedish metallers Orbit Culture and one of the most striking and gripping moments of 2020 it has proven… Read More ›
Bear – Propaganda
Having discovered Bear through their senses ravening second album back in 2013, every new moment with the Belgian outfit has been a momentous moment in our musical year and there is nothing different in 2020 with the unleashing of Propaganda,… Read More ›
Zedi Forder Superium – Judgement
As if one Zedi Forder album was not enough to be excited over, the trio has a second to grip attention in the shape of Judgement; though this is an entirely different proposition to explore, a twin project going by… Read More ›
HorrorHead – Avarice
Furious and unrelenting, brutal and creatively ruthless, Avarice is the debut album from metallers HorrorHead and a release which, even as we cowered before its callous savagery, had ears devouring every destructive tendency. HorrorHead is an Australian outfit with its… Read More ›
Atarka – Sleeping Giant
The rumour is that UK metallers Atarka are a band to keep a close ear upon with no better opportunity coming than through their just released debut album. The suggestion coming our way was that the band was very much… Read More ›
No Kings No Slaves – New Lease of Life
Providing a striking full introduction to themselves with debut album New Lease of Life, Switzerland hailing No Kings No Slaves have swiftly proved themselves a compelling proposition. The release is a cauldron of melodic hardcore but an encounter which dares… Read More ›