Metal, gaming, sport and cats, that just about sums my life up. And growing a big beard....
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...
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...
Eluveitie “Evocation II – Pantheon” Nuclear Blast Records I discovered Eluveitie back in 2008 via the Slania album, and I also caught them live, probably...
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...
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”...
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...
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”....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SunSpell / Saudade “From the Mist… We are but Dust” Iron Bonehead I do love split albums, mainly as I get to check out a...
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…...
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...
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...