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Raise A Whiskey For The Holy Ghost – Rest In Peace Mark Lanegan 1964-2022

25th February 202228th March 2022 Martin Williams Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age, RIP, Screaming Trees

On Tuesday afternoon, 22nd February 2022, I had just finished a Zoom meeting in my office at my tattoo shop,

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Top Ten Of 2021: David J McLaren

30th December 20218th February 2022 David J McLaren Bokassa, Carcass, Gojira, Iron Maiden, LLNN, Sheev, Shun, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Top Ten 2021, Wall, Warning

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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Top Ten Of 2021: George Green

29th December 20218th February 2022 George Green Black Sun Void, Blackfold, Charlie Butler, Gnod, Johan Zetterquist, Kowa Axis, Lucy Adlington, PAK40, Primitive Knot, Stonecirclesampler, Top Ten 2021

What to say about 2021? To misquote Mr. Dickens, ‘it was not the best of times, it was not the

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Top Ten Of 2021: Richard Murray

28th December 20218th February 2022 Richard Murray Ad Nauseam, BRUIT ≤, Chelsea Wolfe, Converge, Daxma, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Hans Zimmer, ISON, Kabbalah, Lingua Ignota, The Silver, Top Ten 2021

My name is Richard Murray, I write in a pretentious manner where I just make lists of similes, I hope

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Top Ten Of 2021: Will J

27th December 20218th February 2022 Will J Divide And Dissolve, Everson Poe, Fluisteraars, Full Of Hell, Panopticon, The Sun And The Mirror, Top Ten 2021, Turnstile, Underdark, Violet Cold, Wolves In The Throne Room

This year certainly hasn’t been as chaotic as the last, but it feels like there’s been even more music making

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Top Ten Of 2021: Josh Schneider

24th December 20218th February 2022 Josh Schneider Cortége, Doomsday Profit, Gangrened, Greenleaf, King Buffalo, Kowloon Walled City, Mos Generator, Red Beard Wall, Spelljammer, The Age Of Truth, The Penitent Man, Top Ten 2021

Well, this is difficult. I’ll be starting a petition for top twenty bands in 2022 because choosing ten is nearly

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Top Ten Of 2021: Jamie Grimes

23rd December 20218th February 2022 Jamie Grimes Ænigmatum, Black Iron Prison, Chimers, Gas Chamber, Glassing, Midwife, Scopophilia, Seed, Sigil, Suffering Hour, The Cowboy, Top Ten 2021

First a disclaimer regarding selection: while on a personal level this year was horrific, it was an exceptionally bountiful year

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Top Ten Of 2021: Tom Hanno

22nd December 20218th February 2022 Tom Hanno Bog Wizard, Cannibal Corpse, Fear Factory, Ice Nine Kills, Khemmis, Monolord, Slaughter To Prevail, Space Metal, Spiral Grave, Top Ten 2021, Witherfall

2021 has seen the release of many amazing albums; so many in fact, that putting together a list of the

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Top Ten Of 2021: Matt Alexander

21st December 20218th February 2022 Matt Alexander Acausal Intrusion, Cerebral Rot, Charnel Grounds, Crypts Of Despair, Defacement, Outre-Tombe, Suffering Hour, Top Ten 2021, Vertebra Atlantis, Wharflurch, Worm

Can you believe it’s that time of the year again! The dreaded moment that I must meticulously work through and

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Top Ten Of 2021: Sandy Williamson

20th December 20218th February 2022 Sandy Williamson Alchemy Of Flesh, Gexerott, Hooded Menace, Sepulcros, Skepticism, Slimelord, Soothsayer, The Ruins Of Beverast, The Slow Death, Top Ten 2021, Ültra Raptör

When I look back on my favourite albums of 2020, death/doom and misery featured highly due to the ongoing world

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Top Ten Of 2021: Martin Williams

17th December 20218th February 2022 Martin Williams At The Gates, Borracho, Butcher In The Fog, Carcass, Green Lung, Greenleaf, Kadabra, Monolord, Red Fang, Snake Mountain Revival, Top Ten 2021

My 2021 like most people’s I’m sure, was slightly, SLIGHTLY, better than 2020. However, despite the orange monster being in

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