Review: Naxatras ‘V’
Naxatras released their fifth effort a few weeks ago and I can confidently say that V is a serious contender
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Review: Dorre ‘Fortress’
Belgium is a fascinating country to me. They have a royal family that nobody cares about, a flat land that
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Preview: Chaos Theory Festival 2025 – 15 Years Of Chaos… And Noise
2025 is set to be a seminal year for a lot of heavy music lovers. Whether it is related to
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Top Ten Of 2024: Nessie Spencer
2024 was such a weird year that it will be immensely difficult to summarise using one word or adjective. Debt,
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Supersonic Festival 2024 – Sunday
Sunday, day three of Supersonic Festival was always meant to be chill, but Digbeth is just one of those places
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Supersonic Festival 2024 – Saturday
Saturday and day two of Supersonic Festival was always going to be the main event of this three-day extravaganza as
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Supersonic Festival 2024 – Friday
When I think of Birmingham, like many of us here, I think of the music scene and the industrial void
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Review: Habak ‘Insania’ [Reissue]
When the Shaman-In-Chief tasked me to review the re-edition of Habak’s debut effort Insania, I thought it would be an
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Review: Gurt ‘Satan Etc’
If you are into sludge metal, Gurt is one of those bands that everybody agrees on: these lads are downright
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Review: Bossk ‘.4’
Storytime: back in 2017, I dragged my then-partner to a Russian Circles show in a hipstery part of London I
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Review: Zolle ‘Rosa’
The Italian scene is as diverse as it is impressive, if there’s a specific genre of music that you particularly
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