Belgian hardcore crew, Nasty, look like hoodlums but preach like ex-cons on the straight and narrow. Scream Blast Repeat reviewed the band’s 2020 Menace album and noted that ‘there’s nothing…
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Who remembers when Sylosis burst onto the scene with 2008’s Conclusion of an Age? Five fresh-faced Metallica worshippers from Reading glared with the bite of Sepultura and hissed like a…
Grindcore is a lifestyle, not too different to black metal. The latter burn churches, espouse Satanism, and worship Friedrich Nietzsche, whereas the former often come from working class communities and…
“Washing machine metal” is a term invented for Marduk’s brand of black metal. Those of us who bought 1999’s Panzer Division Marduk in the days when a malevolent front cover…
Kelly Shaefer is an innovator who helped to invent technical death metal as the guitarist and vocalist in Atheist. Others might identify him as one of the self-indulgent virtuosos that…
Indianapolis thrash quartet, Graveripper, started life as a solo project of Corey Parks (vocalist/guitarist) under the name of Death Ensemble. They changed to their present moniker in 2019 and released…
Incantation are legends of New York death metal even if sole surviving founder, John McEntee, now resides in Pennsylvania. As one of the Big Apple four along with Immolation, Mortician…
Scream Blast Repeat enjoyed Nixil’s 2021 debut, All Knots Untied. We remarked that ‘Black metal is a crowded field, but Nixil find it easy to avoid cliché. Their music embraces…
Is there anything more mouth-watering than a sorrowful doom metal band from the genre’s global headquarters in West Yorkshire, England? Hamish Glencross (guitar/vocals) and Shaun Taylor-Steels (drums) are legends of…