Review: Mantar ‘Pain Is Forever And This Is The End’
Sometimes the way we engage with a particular band or artist over time makes no sense whatsoever… I bought Mantar’s
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Author: David J McLaren
Review: Yatra ‘Born Into Chaos’
Brace yourself… my name is David, and I am NOT a big Death Metal fan. I’ll be honest – I
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Review: Trouble ‘Plastic Green Head’ & ‘Simple Mind Condition’ Reissues
Trouble is a band that I grew up with – one of the few constants that have never fallen into
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Review: Sator ‘Cleansing Ritual’
Sator hail from Genoa, Italy, and with this their third album they are clearly making confident strides towards being spoken
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Review: Messa ‘Close’
At the time of the release of their debut album Belfry, it was easy to describe Messa as an Italian
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Review: Eaters Of The Soil ‘II’ EP
Eaters Of The Soil from Utrecht, Netherlands, play music as dirty and earthy as you might expect from their image-inspiring
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Top Ten Of 2021: David J McLaren
2021 has been a strange fish hasn’t it? Not quite so dramatic as all of the doom n gloom of
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Review: Sheev ‘Mind Conductor’
Festive greetings to you my Shaman-Metal-Worshiping brothers, sisters, and solo-offspring alike. What we have here is a gift. A truly
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Review: A Pale Horse Named Death ‘Infernum In Terra’
When I first saw reference to A Pale Horse Named Death I was immediately interested. Upon hearing that the project
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Review: Warning ‘Watching From A Distance – Live At Roadburn’
I’m sat here in my Watching From A Distance t-shirt wondering how to do an objective review of this album.
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Review: LLNN ‘Unmaker’
There was a moment in the early to mid-noughties, where post-metal (or whatever you choose to call it) grabbed the
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