Burning Churches “Pulpit of Avarice” It’s been about 18 or so months since Chicago’s Burning Churches blew me away with their debut EP, Defecation of the Tabernacle. And ...
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Dark Sanctuary “Metal” Avantgarde Music Dark Sanctuary’s last studio album was 2009s self titled opus. Now before you get over-excited thinking they’ve recorded a new album, this is ...
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Eluveitie “Evocation II – Pantheon” Nuclear Blast Records I discovered Eluveitie back in 2008 via the Slania album, and I also caught them live, probably the same year, ...
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Necrosis “Mythogenesis” Rule number one when you form a band… make sure no one else has the same band name I took a load of random releases as ...
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TAU CROSS “Pillar of Fire” Relapse Records Tau Cross feature (amongst others) Rob Miller, vocalist from the now defunct Amebix and Voivod drummer Michel “Away” Langevin. I was ...
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Urn “The Burning” Iron Bonehead productions The Burning is Urn’s 4th album and their 1st in 9 years. They’ve been described as one of the Finnish undergrounds longest ...
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Vindkast “Archaic Collapse” Avantgarde Music It’s not uncommon for a reviewer to recommend an album, say, for fans of “Brutal Death” or “Raw Black Metal”. In this case, ...
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Psython “Hatred” Unfortunately for Psython, they are probably around a couple of decades too late. In a time that smaller record labels are mainly pointless, as you can ...
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When Ukraine’s Soulrest offered to send out actual physical cds for review, I thought an interview would be a much fairer deal for their time and money, so ...
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REX BROWN “Smoke On This….” Steamhammer / SPV Smoke On This is the debut solo album from ex-Pantera bassist, Rex Brown. And if you think it’s going to ...
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TYTAN “Justice Served” High Roller Records It’s easy to discover new bands these days… it’s called the internet. But for those of you in the UK, of a ...
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Kafirun “Eschaton” Seance Records Some albums you can cut up into small chunks and you can departmentalize everything… and some, like this one (obviously) you need to treat ...
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Barbaric Horde “Tainted Impurity” War Arts Productions If you want something nice and subtle, this is not for you… shit, even you want a modicum of melody, this ...
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Cirith Ungol “King of the Dead” Metal Blade records So here we have a re-issue of 1984’s King of the Dead, which was unleashed by Metal Blade a ...
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BONEHUNTER “Sexual Panic Human Machine” Hells Headbangers records I’ve a few elaborate albums in my review pile, I also have some straightforward blasters too. And while this doesn’t ...
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SKINFLINT “Chief Of The Ghosts” Pure Steel Records On my now defunct radio show, I did one particular show where all of the bands were from Africa… and ...
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SunSpell / Saudade “From the Mist… We are but Dust” Iron Bonehead I do love split albums, mainly as I get to check out a couple of new ...
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Speedclaw- Iron Speed I turned 50 at the beginning of the year and this debut, from Croatia’s Speedclaw, takes me way back to my teenage years… and this re-issue ...
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Dawnpatrol “The Dawn of Steel” Nuclearmageddon Records Ok, this album is actually about a year old, but it’s only just made its way to Antichrist HQ… and going ...
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WALPYRGUS “Walpyrgus Nights” Cruz Del Sur Music I agreed to review this album, one mad day, solely based on the biography… the promise was influences ranging from Iron ...
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