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ALBUM REVIEW: Sounds of a Disease – SKAM

ALBUM REVIEW: Sounds of a Disease – SKAM

\When putting on a record with a title like Sounds Of A Disease you should brace yourself for an unrelenting blast of carnage, additionally in the case of this one man Swedish grind outfit SKAM, you should also brace yourself for a huge dose of fun. Now, words like ‘fun’ seldom come up when discussing grindcore, but a huge range of other extreme metal influences sneak their way onto Sounds Of A…

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Ahab: To Sail Forbidden Seas

Ahab: To Sail Forbidden Seas

Funeral doom is one of the finer niches within heavy music. It’s like a slow-rolling tide, with long creeping build-ups to have the crescendo crash over you like a monolithic wave, which makes the genre’s live shows a unique experience. Enter Live Prey, the new live album from German doom pioneers AHAB, which offers a glimpse into the hypnotic abyss that is their performances.  READ THE WHOLE…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Spectral Devastation – Sölicitör

ALBUM REVIEW: Spectral Devastation – Sölicitör

The influx of old school thrash metal is so constant today you could release a new Speed Kills style compilation monthly without the well ever running dry. Newcomers on the leather and spike clad battlefield, SÖLICITÖR have come soaring out of the booming North American heavy metal revival with their debut Spectral Devastation. It’s a slab of unfiltered speed which instantly makes them standouts…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dominion – Video Nasties

ALBUM REVIEW: Dominion – Video Nasties

The term “Video Nastie” emerged in the 80s when the moral panic of horror movies hit its fever pitch. It was a way for censor-happy busybodies to dub a movie as violent and dangerous to society. The terror of VIDEO NASTIES were thought to be over but out of Merseyside’s murky waters and foggy streets comes a force which can install the same feeling of panic and danger as the twisted movies that…

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How Jazz, Classical and Metal Clash to Form the Avant-Garde Musings of Inhumankind

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Voices: Taking Dark Inspiration from an Urban Landscape

Voices: Taking Dark Inspiration from an Urban Landscape

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Boiling In The Hourglass: Cosmic Death Metal Through the Aeons

Boiling In The Hourglass: Cosmic Death Metal Through the Aeons

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ramagehead – O.R.k To look back into the back catalogue of the members of O.R.K you’ll find a masterclass in prog (especially from bassist Colin Edwin of PORCUPINE TREE and drummer Pat Mastelotto of KING CRIMSON) and frontman Lorenzo Esposito Fornasar has roots in soundtracks, producing, avant garde and even experimental doom.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Desolation – Khemmis When KEHMMIS‘ second album, 2016’s Hunted, was still dripping in praise from critics, peoples eyes quickly turned to the band to see what the follow up would be like.

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LIVE REVIEW: Employed To Serve @ The Waterfront Studio, Norwich It’s a humid springtime evening in Norwich and the sprouting flora spread across the city are a perfect representation of the UK’s heavy music scene right now.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Mind – Vorbid After POWER TRIP, KREATOR, IRON REAGAN and MUNICIPAL WASTE all made sure thrash had a killer year in 2017 we’ve been waiting for the first standout thrash album of this year, well it’s finally arrived in the form of 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Vacuum – Balmog When someone describes an album as pure black metal, there’s actually a myriad of what they could mean.

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LIVE REVIEW: Feed The Rhino @ The Owl Sanctuary, Norwich This tour of homegrown bands has the potential to be one of the best UK tours this year, and as always seems to be the case with FEED THE RHINO it’s aggravatingly under the radar.

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EP REVIEW: Void Masquerading as Matter – Thantifaxath THANTIFAXATH are a band shrouded in masquerade and mystery, not just because of their hooded cloaks and anonymity but also because of their bleak yet utterly enjoyable sound.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Wizard Bloody Wizard – Electric Wizard With the title of ELECTRIC WIZARD‘s ninth album title mimicking BLACK SABBATH‘s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, you would hope the record would sit in the same way as the godfathers overlooked fifth record does, as a ‘really good but not the best’ kind of deal.

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INTERVIEW: Matt Heafy & Paolo Greoletto – Trivium If you were to draw the trajectories of TRIVIUM‘s career there would be many branches and departures showing where the band changed things up from record to record, but the most impressive part of that mental diagram would be that it would always show them growing and moving forward no matter where the smaller paths lead.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Debt – Helpless When there’s a new ‘heaviest band in the world’ every five minutes, there’s a NAILS, ALL PIGS MUST DIE or TRAP THEM around every corner, it can be hard for bands of that hardcore influenced grind-y ilk to actually deliver.