Wes Hauch could be the nearest thing today’s generation has to a Dimebag Darrell guitar hero. You’ll know his angular rhythms and shred patterns from his work in The Faceless…
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This is a pop album. Pop with an onomatopoeic =*POP*=! An effervescent burst of unembarrassed noise. It is shiny and hollow, like the snap from a burst bubble, and as…
Anonymous UK collective, Epiphanic Truth, are proof once more that progressive metal is a genre of poets and philosophers, just like pre-unification Germany in the eighteenth century. But the musicians…
Cameron Davis, aka Cicada the Burrower, set up Blue Bedroom Records with one mantra – “We play sadness.” This is easier said than done with so many interpretations of sorrow…
Few metal artists in 2021 excite the critics and underground observers like English deathcore quartet, Vexed. Napalm Records hope they’ll be the next big thing and put them on a…
Cro-Mags are back once again after their triumphant return with 2020’s excellent In the Beginning album. It’s true that we run of out of superlatives to describe the man and…
When you’ve been around for as long as Cult of Luna (twenty-two years and counting), it may be somewhat daunting to try and maintain the quality of releases you’ve notched…
As the first big metal release of 2021, we decided to do something different with the latest Nervosa album. Beccatron Swinney of Hertfordshire death-sludge outfit, Jackal’s Backbone, is a long-time…
Luxembourg is famous for being a country my next-door neighbour would like to visit one day. If there were any justice in the world it would also be famous for…