Groan ‘Highrospliffics’ DD 2015
Groan’s new stoned out release Highrospliffics harkens to a kind punkish, anthem-calling, but metal, pre-genre label mess. I say it’s
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Metal
Bad Guys ‘Bad Guynaecology’ LP/CD/DD 2015
Labels are convenient. They help us recover lost items, take the right medication and stop that twat Gary from finance
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Lord Dying ‘Poisoned Altars’ CD/LP/DL 2015
I was very taken with Lord Dying‘s 2013 debut album, Summon The Faithless, a scathing, seething mix of High On
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Thorr-Axe ‘Gates Of Winter’ CD/DD 2015
The name Thorr-Axe was what attracted me to this band. I’ll admit it, I read it and thought, ‘there’ll be
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Latitude Egress ‘To Take Up the Cross’ CD/DD 2014
Like a woman making a dress entirely out of used paper plates, like a particularly passionate man constructing a car
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Weed Is Weed ‘Blunt Force Trauma’ CD/DD 2014
A few years back I surprisingly ran into Dave Sherman outside a Gaithersburg, MD grocery store and suffice it to
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Black Moth ‘Condemned To Hope’ CD/LP/DD 2014
Music journalists are always seeking to pigeonhole bands within certain scenes and genres, it makes their job a hell of
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Cardinal Wyrm ‘Black Hole Gods’ DD 2014
Cardinal Wyrm are a doom band based in Oakland, California. The current line up consists of Pranjal Tiwali on drum
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Orange Goblin ‘Back From The Abyss’ CD/LP/DD 2014
It’s not often an album leaves you struggling to find anything to write about it. Sometimes it happens when an
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Iron Void – S/T – CD/DD 2014
With a name featuring the words “iron” and “void” (and bugger all else), a record label who’s mantra reads “Proudly
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The Skull ‘For Those Which Are Asleep’ CD/LP/DD 2014
The Skull broke on the scene a few months back with a two track appetizer (Sometime Yesterday Mourning/Last Judgment EP
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