Category: Reviews

4 May 2020 / Dark

The new record from I Break Horses was always going to be a challenge and you’re right to ask the question, “Will it be a worthy successor to 2014’s Chiaroscuro?”.…

4 May 2020 / Metal
4 May 2020 / Metal

You Tube adverts in between videos can be annoying. You have your favourite metal band ready to stream and a four-minute showpiece from an unknown artist pops up like an…

30 April 2020 / Metal
30 April 2020 / Metal

Testament are legends. Now on their thirteenth studio album, they’re back once again with another dose of high-octane Thrash. Which means we get dazzling fretwork, pulverising drums and one of…

30 April 2020 / Metal

Reflections went on hiatus in 2015 and dropped off people’s radars. You may remember them as a progressive metalcore band with djent leanings in the Periphery mould. Five young men…

29 April 2020 / Metal

Toronto’s Smoulder are a proud exponent of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal. That means we get lyrics about demons and necromancers and swords and shields. We also get…

29 April 2020 / Metal
28 April 2020 / Metal

The wait is over. Expectations could not be any higher. The band best placed to replace Dillinger Escape Plan as the world’s most important and genre-pushing metal outfit managed to…

28 April 2020 / Metal

Hertfordshire’s Chinned are a ferocious live act. Singer, George Milner, warms up on stage with cross-body shoulder swings and screams in the face of the audience. The bass player soundchecks…