After years already stirring up and invading the senses and albums that have thrust the listener into the darkest places within the band’s imagination, UK’s Ventenner endeavoured to delve into the most unique and most ambitious aspects of their creativity… Read More ›
industrial metal
Realize – Machine Violence
Every now and then we step back in time to when industrial metal truly devoured and obliterated our faculties with its intensity and barbarous creativity; the likes of Ministry, Prong, Godflesh, The Young Gods and Author & Punisher in their… Read More ›
No Names – I Surrender To The Void As Of Now I Am The Void
The background to No Names can be summed up in a couple of sentences it seems. The outfit is an Australian industrial metal band consisting of the duo of Stephen and Michael who have been musically involved for well over… Read More ›
Vovkulaka – Self Titled
Having recently devoured an EP featuring four of their fan’s favourite tracks, there could only be one next port of call and that was the self-titled debut album from Ukrainian metallers Vovkulaka. If that introduction to the band impressed and… Read More ›
MONO INC. – The Book of Fire
Having been successfully teased by its first two tracks cast as a single a few weeks back anticipation for the new album from German alternative-gothic outfit MONO INC. was rife. In preparation for checking out The Book of Fire we… Read More ›
Vovkulaka: Introducing the Darkside…
“Tortured cries from the supernatural haunt the punishing mystical metal of Ukraine’s Vovkulaka. The band’s singer-drummer-songwriter VolK is a dark conduit for paranormal activity and channels his explorations in this realm into his band’s tribal and occultist thrashings.” We have… Read More ›
Syztem 7 – Evolving
Though new album Evolving is the first time we have come across US rockers Syztem 7, it is a proposition which immediately felt like an old friend back to eagerly stir things up. That is because the Seattle hailing outfit… Read More ›
Destroy Planets! – Mass X Gravity
Though only emerging this past February UK metallers Destroy Planets! have made a striking introduction to themselves with debut EP, Mass X Gravity. It bears all the hallmarks of a craft and imagination which has been brewed over time, indeed… Read More ›
Deflore/Jaz Coleman – Party In The Chaos
Sometimes you just feel certain link-ups were meant to be, collaborations destined to see the light of day at some point even if no-one realised the possibility. One is definitely that between Italian industrial metallers Deflore and Killing Joke frontman… Read More ›
Martyr Art – FearFaith Machines
Self-Dubbed as digital metal, the Martyr Art sound is a voracious mix of varied metal and industrial/electronic textures with more besides from an artist which embraces technology as eagerly as the cauldron of flavours woven into his bold recipe of… Read More ›