Easily one of our feverishly favourite tracks of last year was 13th Moon from US alternative rock / metal outfit No Captains, a band we had not come across before but were poised to release their fourth album. The track… Read More ›
Primus
Another Shameless Spectacle
There was a chill in the air, an almost Siberian breath to the new day, yet equally it brought a sunspot of pleasure. Another eagerly welcomed visit from our friend Shauna from Shameless Promotion PR and of the duo… Read More ›
The Spider Hole – To the Monsters
The readymade entertainment to grace any Wickerman like pagan ritual or meeting of The Monster Club, The Spider Hole unveil a new carnival of dark deeds and imagination prowling adventures under the guise of To the Monsters. The band casts… Read More ›
Masiro – Geodesics
Simultaneously teasing and engaging the imagination from start to finish, Geodesics is the new EP from British instrumental metallers Masiro. It offers up six tracks which take the listener on their own inspired journey through realms of creative intimation and… Read More ›
Hypochristmutreefuzz – Hypopotomonstrosesquipedaiophobia
There is music which is bred out of bedlam, sounds which are seemingly born out of creative psychosis and challenges which are feverishly psychotic; and there is that from Hypochristmutreefuzz. The Belgian noise-rock outfit create a psyche infesting collusion of… Read More ›
Japanese Fighting Fish – Swimming with Piranhas
The highly anticipated third album from British aural dramatists Japanese Fighting Fish is uncaged this week, a release which not only confirms that there is no other proposal like the London based quartet but shows the band hitting another plateau… Read More ›
Bold webs of adventure: taking a Deep Breath with One Year Delay
A sound hard to pin down always excites the imagination more than most and equally ears it is hoped. Greek hard rockers One Year Delay have such a proposition bursting from their imagination and craft and as proven by debut… Read More ›
Forcing dreams with realisation: talking ESCAPETHECULT with founder Peter G. Shallmin
A proposition which increasingly impresses and continually reshapes thoughts and emotions the more time shared with it, All You Want To is one of the year’s most intriguing, ingenious, and exciting progressive metal explorations. It comes from ESCAPETHECULT, a band… Read More ›
Escapethecult – All You Want To
All You Want To is a persistent little temptation, an album which admittedly did not really blow thoughts and senses away initially but did engage them in a pleasing and intriguing proposition. Away from its aural embrace though hooks and… Read More ›
Toumaï – Sapiens Demens
Creating what they term psyche-fonk metal, French band Toumaï is one of those encounters which send tingles down the spine as it teases and ignites the imagination. Unleashing a majestic psyche twisting bedlam in the tasty shape of debut album… Read More ›
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