Brazilians have every reason to be furious with the state of their country. Their misogynist president is a populist with a nostalgic fondness for military dictatorships. Deforestation in the Amazon…
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Dorset metallers, Deathblade, are a band that will invite jealousy, including from this reviewer. Most people at age twelve were playing video games or fretting about their place in the…
A year on from their debut record, The Troops of Doom are back with a new EP and another vicious attack of blackened thrash. For those of you unaware, the…
People associate Stockholm quintet, Forgetting the Memories, with metalcore. That may be accurate to describe their 2016 album, Monophobia, and enough to turn metalheads away who think this is just…
The terms “Norwegian” and “death metal” are as incongruent as writing the words “sane government” and “North Korea” in the same sentence. But Blood Red Throne are a unique death…
Russian quintet, Manfrea, started out as a black metal duo in 2014 but are now a different proposition altogether. The presence of co-vocalist, Anastasia Bilaya, opens up new possibilities that…
London trio, Spectral Darkwave, are a curious proposition. The band members assume character names and dress like anti-heroes from a graphic novel issued by DC Comics. They also play a…
Ministry are one of the most influential bands of the last three decades on heavy music and experienced major commercial success in the 1990s as Lollapalooza darlings and industrial metal…
Harrogate quartet, Blood Youth, are one of those bands that fall into the meaningless category of “modern metal” and end up missing out on exposure to the wider underground where…