Swedish post-thrash quartet, The Defaced, went their separate ways in 2008 after their Anomaly LP. Klas Ideberg (rhythm guitar) and Jens Broman (vocals) had interests in the more prominent Darkane,…
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Hertfordshire quintet, Skarlet Envy, first appeared on the SBR radar with their excellent 2019 EP, Invidia. We couldn’t decide if they were an alternative metal enigma or a heavy metal…
Seattle’s fiendish heavy metal wrecking crew, Dark Meditation, like their music loud, their vehicles fast, and their beers strong. You won’t find a semblance of grunge in their sound, but…
2021 produced some strange records, but Solar Cross might have the most unusual prog metal release of the year. Formed by the three Pikka brothers – two of whom used…
Remember the name Voidgazer and keep it in the back of your mind for the next time somebody says modern metal is uninspiring and bereft of ideas. The Missouri quartet…
Bristol’s Detritus released two thrash albums in the early 1990s and disappeared without trace until Christian metal label, Retroactive Records, reissued their back catalogue in 2019. The remastered albums piqued…
You’ll blink as if blinded by a piece of dust when you read that Lipshok are a band from the USA. This group could not be more European in their…
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,…
Angels Don’t Sleep is the debut album by Helena Aleksandre, whose prog-folk-hard rock echoes All About Eve and their goth-folk ilk. The production is light, almost demo-ish, but the clarity…