Review: Helen Money ‘Atomic’
The use of classical instrumentation within metal is no longer what it used to be. Once, it was either the
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Album & EP Reviews
Review: Candlemass ‘The Pendulum’
Candlemass are one of the godfathers of what is now commonly known as Epic Doom Metal, characterised by high pitched
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Review: WVRM ‘Colony Collapse’
Repulsion guitarist Matt Olivo described grindcore as ‘This isn’t metal, it isn’t punk, I don’t know what the fuck these
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Review: Sleepwulf ‘Sleepwulf’
It must have been six or seven years ago that there was a veritable flood of Scandinavian bands peddling overtly
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Review: The GR Record Head
The GR Record Head is the fifth solo album for French ‘deviationist ensemble’ GRegory Raimo, and it features ‘a multi-piece
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Review: Jon Free And Neddal Ayad ‘Emerald’
A short and sweet joint effort here from two guitarists who both operate in the instrumental realm. The UK’s Jon
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Review: Eye Flys ‘Tub Of Lard’
Feedback, when a guitar and amplifier are feeding each other so as to create noise spontaneously is a weird beast.
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Review: DEAD ‘Drooling Raving’
Not my first encounter on the Shaman with these Aussie bruisers by any means having reviewed the earlier Idiots album
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Review: Spell ‘Opulent Decay’
Spell are an enigmatic power trio from Vancouver, Canada and they consist of Cam Mesmer (lead vocals/bass) Graham McVie (guitars/backing
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Review: Hexvessel ‘Kindred’
I’m not the world’s biggest folk music fan, I always found it a genre that was a little weightless and
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Review: Witchfinder ‘Hazy Rites’
My first impressions of Hazy Rites were mixed. A stoner doom band with the chutzpah to call themselves Witchfinder, such
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