So, Def Leppard’s Hysteria took four years to arrive which, at the time, seemed a long time until Guns N Roses decided to raise the bar with 17 years between studio albums. That this release is approximately two years later…
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In some ways I’m pretty fortunate in that I’ve been living under a rock for several years and have never heard a note of Pelican’s previous work so can come to this new offering with fresh ears. I am, for…
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Many years ago, back in the mists of times there came a band out of the North East of England called Revenant Host who plied their industrial thrash to and audience of…not many. Following the split in 1994 the various…
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Glasgow’s Low Sonic Drift, like the drug with which they share their initials seek to confound, confuse and generally fuck with your perceptions. A mash up of stoner, thrash, psychedelia and prog, on paper this sounds like a nightmarish and…
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Nottingham’s Hordes of Satan are currently making heads crumble at a thousand paces with their monstrously heavy, slow and primitive take on Doom. Their debut LP on Germany’s Streak Records has already nearly sold out and with obvious comparisons being…
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The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 09/10/09 These days it takes a lot to get me to take the journey south to London, but Ulver just happen to be one of those very things. Notoriously reclusive and contrary, this is one…
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Some things just aren’t going to work, like a Chihuahua fucking a Great Dane, bacon sandwiches at a Jewish wedding, Jordan and Peter Andre…doomed to fail. So if you take a slightly nerdy Sleep obsessed guitarist, a female John Bonham…
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You have to admit, the Italians do retro pretty well and the 70′s do seem to be their halcyon period. Maybe it’s the influence of cult horror directors such as Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci or some inherent genetic anomaly…
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