This is the second album from stoner/sludge band Attalla.
Sometimes you just get a craving for some rocking, riff-focused stoner/sludge metal, and for times like that the new Attalla album Glacial Rule is quite the tonic. Continue reading “Attalla – Glacial Rule (Review)”
Craven Idol are the real deal. Their latest album The Shackles of Mammon is an absolute scorcher. As with the best of releases; the more you listen to it, the better it gets.
As I said in my review of their latest creation – this is old-school quality with new-school fury and bite. It’s partly this combination that gives Craven Idol such a distinct personality, one that definitely sees them stand out from the hordes.
The very amicable Vrath went into detail about what makes the album so special, and what makes the band tick… Continue reading “Interview with Craven Idol”
Buioingola are an atmospheric doom band from Italy and this is their second album.
Il Nuovo Mare is the follow up to the band’s 2013 debut Dopo l’Apnea. This was a release that established Buioingola as a band that were travelling their own way, and a release that firmly stuck in my mind as one of the more memorable ones of that year. Continue reading “Buioingola – Il Nuovo Mare (Review)”
Virulent Depravity are a technical death metal band from the US and this is their debut album.
Who doesn’t love some head-turning dizzying techdeath now and again?
Although the album cover Continue reading “Virulent Depravity – Fruit of the Poisoned Tree (Review)”
Telekinetic Yeti are a US stoner/doom metal band and this is their debut album.
With a heady whiff of stoner, Clutch and Black Sabbath-esque vibes, Telekinetic Yeti deliver over 40 minutes of psychedelic doom rock/metal for the listener’s delectation. Add in some Red Fang and Mastodon and you have a very full album. Continue reading “Telekinetic Yeti – Abominable (Review)”
This is the debut album from Finnish one-man, (rounded out with some session members), death/black metal project Cemetery Winds.
This is a competent and engrossing mix of old-school death and black metal. This sits Continue reading “Cemetery Winds – Unholy Ascensions (Review)”
This is the second album form French sludge metallers Fange.
I enjoyed the group’s debut EP Poisse, so it’s good to catch up with them once more for their second album.
This is pitch-black sludge ugliness, with some noise tendencies. Think Primitive Man, Full of Hell and Continue reading “Fange – Pourrissoir (Review)”
This is the latest EP by US death metallers Vorzug.
This is blackened death metal. It’s an old-school concoction with dark melodies and vicious riffs. Continue reading “Vorzug – Three (Review)”
Greek alternative metallers Ghost Season have produced a strong debut album in Like Stars in a Neon Sky. Full of engaging melodies and more than enough hooks for the listener to get caught on, it’s an album full of passion, aspiration and personality.
So let’s meet Dorian and Helen and find out what makes Ghost Season the band they are… Continue reading “Interview with Ghost Season”
This is the latest demo from Swedish death metallers Creeping Flesh.
I like Creeping Flesh a lot. Their 2015 EP Rising Terror was a firmly enjoyable slab of the Swedish style of death metal, and it stuck out in my mind as a superior release from the genre. Continue reading “Creeping Flesh – Scorched (Review)”
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