My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It’s 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we’re temporarily stuck between stations on London’s busiest underground network. A range of moods meet my glance about the carriage. There’s the “I’m…
Read More… »

There are few bands that’ll take you to as vile a place as America’s sludge specialists Coffinworm. Formed back in 2007, it’s easy to imagine that their plan was simply to decimate the ears of doomsters by making the most…
Read More… »

I feel compelled to start with a resounding ‘thank you’ here. This goes out to Dave Curran, Jim Paradise and Andrew Schneider for basically putting together the kind of album that reminded me of my halcyon days at university, before…
Read More… »

Something smells a bit fishy around here. There must be something in the water. We’re gunna need a bigger boat… Sorry, I just need to gut myself of all the awful fish puns that I could possibly slip into this…
Read More… »

In these tragic days of the disposable digital download, artists have to come up with increasingly novel ways to get people to pay attention to their physical product. As such we have seen a resurgence in vinyl offerings and even…
Read More… »

The name Cortez may not be hugely familiar within the stoner rock scene. I remember the debut EP, “Thunder In A forgotten Town”, released in 2007 on Belgium’s Buzzville Records being a decent if unremarkable release. When guitarist Tony D’Agostino…
Read More… »

What do Melvins records and buses have in common? Wait for one and two show up at the same time. Also they’re both massive, they’re both slow and would both crush you if you got in their way. The venerable…
Read More… »

The act of mixing genres, once regarded as blasphemy, has become really common nowadays. Two styles of music used particularly often in such a fusion of different worlds are folk and metal. One could describe Uaral (to my knowledge pronounced…
Read More… »

As heavy metal evolves and its various faces are subverted, rehashed and cross-bred, it is almost inevitable that the originators of its various genres should attempt a return to the frontline as their influence is hailed. The last decade is…
Read More… »

This EP from Pelican is a fairly tantalising glimpse of what we might be able to expect from the next album, being as how it only feels really like two ‘proper’ tracks, bookended by two very well put together, yet…
Read More… »