Led by enigmatic songwriter, Mark Norgate, Dawnwalker are unlike anything in modern metal. Their latest record ended up on several end-of-year lists for best albums of 2020 despite only seeing…
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December 2020 has been a good month for the Manchester metal scene. Death-thrash outfit, BruteAllies, put out their debut album and now we get the inaugural release from industrial blackened…
The metal scene in Portland, Oregon came to our attention with the magnificent debut album from Coffin Apartment. Now we have another artist from the same city, and they’re just…
You might assign the much maligned blackgaze genre to Ontario duo, Within Nostalgia, but that’s only if you’re being lazy. Now on their second album in two years, Void &…
We reviewed Lament Cityscape’s two precursor EPs earlier in 2020 here and saluted Mike McClatchey’s work on The Old Wet and The Pulsing Wet. ‘Bring on the third EP,’ was…
Founding Sepultura guitarist, Jairo Guedz, returned in 2020 with his new band The Troops of Doom. The group have one aim – to play the primitive and nasty death metal…
Arhat hail from Kiev and play death metal infused with oriental and groove elements. At least that’s what the press release says. On paper that should mean they walk the…
Faith No More showed as early as 1985 that thrash metal can appear in the most unusual of settings, in their case a weird post-punk/ alternative aesthetic. Italian duo, Moonreflex,…
Our recent review of the latest EP from Sheffield extreme metal anarchists, Utilitarian, questioned the political philosophy of the band and criticised their worldview. Vocalist, Jon Crowder, would like to…