Skin Like Iron / Nails - Split 7" 2012

When I saw this one up for grabs I went for it quick. ‘Unsilent Death’ by Nails is one of the best hardcore albums I’ve heard since ‘Scum’. No shit. It smashes your face in and you love it ... Read More... »

Monarch 'Omens' CD 2012

Monarch have carved such a tight niche for themselves, it would be difficult to imagine them doing anything other than ripping your face off with their lysergic dragged through the dirt with an earth shattering heaviness style of music. ... Read More... »

Grimpen Mire 'A Plague Upon Your Houses' CD 2012

Could this be a case of ‘going through the motions’? I’m not talking about the review either. Right then, let’s introduce the band - a sturdy act that hail from the birthplace of metal, Grimpen Mire offer up their debut ... Read More... »

White Hills 'Frying On This Rock' CD/LP 2012

Some album titles are unimaginative, or in a lot of cases, just plain shit. 'St. Anger', 'Ten', 'Hillbilly Deluxe 2', 'Bleach' – yes, we’re thinking of you. Others may be well worded, but bear no relevance to the musical ... Read More... »

Volition / Juhyo - Split 3" CD/Cassette 2011

If you were to look up “underrated extreme music from the UK” you can bet your life that, amongst the likes of London’s superb Indesinence and Scotland’s arse-tearing Bonesaw, you would find Barrow’s finest musical export: VOLITION. This excellent ... Read More... »

Aelter 'Dusk Dawn/Follow You Beloved' 2xCD 2011

Just as Conan broods upon his throne in Aquilonia, so it is that Wolvserpent's Blake Green broods in his studio, and in his brooding brings forth the dark, earthy sensuality of Aelter. Like a tenebrous shadow to Wolvserpent, Aelter plumb ... Read More... »

Amulet 'Cut The Crap' Cassette EP 2012

"Amulet", noun, from the Latin amuletum; meaning "an object that protects a person from trouble". Grainy tape cassette recordings and old school heavy metal authenticity: holding hands like brothers in medieval battle since 1964. It's really only recordings like this ... Read More... »

Gnaw Their Tongues 'Per Flagellum Sanguemque Tenebras Veneramus' CD 2011

Lock your doors. Bar your windows. Seal yourself inside your home. Call the police. It won't save you, Gnaw Their Tongues have returned and now nowhere is safe. THIS is the sound of the apocalypse, of impending doom. The ... Read More... »

Death 'Vivus!' CD 2012

I sometimes wonder regarding bands that are sadly no more, but clearly were at the absolute pinnacle of their particular pile of hairy guitar slingers, whether people truly realised at the time what they were watching. Now it becomes ... Read More... »

Corrosion Of Conformity – S/T - CD/LP 2012

When COC reunited with the original “Animosity” era line-up of Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean and Reed Mullin, ostensibly to tour that album, it caused no small number of ripples in the metal world. The avid Keenanites bemoaned the absence ... Read More... »