Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us
June 20th, 2016 | by Stuart Kristensen
Death-grind machine Nails’ latest, ‘You Will Never Be One Of Us’, is a brisk, twenty-one minute cauldron of sonic extremity
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Obscura - Akróasis Album Review
March 7th, 2016 | by Stuart Kristensen
Technical death metal’s astronaut philosophers, Obscura, have earned and maintained the admiration and respect of the extreme metal community through
Fleshgod Apocalypse - ‘King’ Album Review
February 3rd, 2016 | by Stuart Kristensen
The latest slab of dense, symphonic death metal insanity from Fleshgod Apocalypse is ‘King’, a concept album that tops their
Nile - ‘What Should Not Be Unearthed’ Album Review
September 9th, 2015 | by Stuart Kristensen
Nile have maintained their position as one of death metal’s most consistently strong and unique groups for over a decade
Bong – ‘We are, we were and we will have been’ - Review
June 27th, 2015 | by Stuart Kristensen
Drone is a difficult genre of music to write about, lacking as it does the musical qualities that are typically
Helloween – ‘My God-Given Right’ Album Review
June 1st, 2015 | by Stuart Kristensen
Fighting on through numerous line-up changes and variable success since their 80’s prime, the seminal German speed metallers, ‘Helloween’ have
Melechesh - ‘Enki’ Album Review
March 1st, 2015 | by Stuart Kristensen
Melechesh’s unique and instantly recognizable fusion of blackened thrash with meticulously crafted middle-eastern textures has been hammered into a monolith
Enslaved - ‘In Times’ Album Review
February 4th, 2015 | by Stuart Kristensen
Enslaved are one of the most interesting genre-benders in the Scandinavian metal community and their latest release is an excellent
Torche - ‘Minions’ Single
December 30th, 2014 | by Stuart Kristensen
Sludgy Floridian hard rock band Torche has had a strong catalogue so far and the band’s upcoming LP ‘Restarter’ looks
Usnea - Random Acts of Cosmic Violence
December 9th, 2014 | by Stuart Kristensen
Usnea’s ‘Random Acts of Cosmic Violence’, released November 10th, 2014, is a sludge metal hurricane. The four-piece’s four track, ‘Relapse’
Myrkur - Myrkur
August 29th, 2014 | by Stuart Kristensen
One-man black metal bands hold a unique aura of mystery in the world of extreme metal music. Their creators seem
Bowl Ethereal – S/T 7”
August 2nd, 2014 | by Stuart Kristensen
Bowl Ethereal is a math metal duo from Virginia consisting of Brian Metz on guitar and bass and Pen Rollings
Belphegor – Conjuring the Dead
July 22nd, 2014 | by Stuart Kristensen
It is no small thing to make an extreme metal album sound impressively vicious and frightening to today’s experienced and
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