Various Artists ‘Budgie – Never Turn Your Back On A Friend – 50 Years Later’
Probably like quite a lot of people reading this, my introduction to Budgie was Metallica’s memorable versions of Crash Course
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Author: Simon Brotherton
Review: Dave Lombardo ‘Rites Of Percussion’
Good things being borne out of the COVID lockdown has been a bit of a recurring theme in some of
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Review: Rotten Sound ‘Apocalypse’
By their own admission, Finland’s biggest grindcore exports have been a tad tardy getting album number eight out of the
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Review: Full Of Hell & Primitive Man ‘Suffocating Hallucination’
I’d never refer to myself as a massive sludge or noise fan, so you may be wondering why I picked
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Review: Venomous Concept ‘The Good Ship Lollipop’
There’s a saying that’s something about triumph coming out of adversity, which is clearly the case as far as The
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Top Ten Of 2022: Simon Brotherton
It’s fair to say 2022 has been tough. War, floods, famine, economic crisis, oh, and an ongoing pandemic. Thankfully, it’s
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Review: Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant ‘Sèances’
Eighteen years is certainly a long gap between releases and 2004’s Sister Phantom Owl Fish was the last time Trevor
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Review: Enablers ‘Some Gift’
As the press release accompanying this latest long-player from Enablers stresses, there’s no ‘The’ in their name, something which I
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Retro Review: Cryptopsy ‘None So Vile’
I’m the first one to hark back to those glory days of the early 90s, where Morbid Angel, Obituary, and
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Review: Various Artists ‘Döminance And Submissiön: A Tribute to Blue Öyster Cult’
Tribute albums are often hit-and-miss affairs and usually at their best when there’s some real heart involved. That’s certainly the
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Review: Marxbros ‘Kortom Punk’
Uniting three hardcore punk legends from both sides of the pond, this release immediately caught my attention. I’m guilty of
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