A Horse Called War – Good For Glue (And Nothing Else)
This isn’t factory fodder, it’s one of the better EPs released in a stellar year of music.
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Blood Incantation – Hidden History Of The Human Race
Blood Incantation are aiming for the cosmos, but actually they need only look at themselves for they are death metal’s shining stars.
Deaf Radio – Modern Panic
Greece isn’t a country famed for its musical exports. What it did in defining philosophical, mathematical and political ideologies and formulae is unparalleled, but aside from a handful of outfits, there aren’t many household names to emerge from the Hellenic Republic.
Abigail Williams – Walk Beyond The Dark
Black metal is the infernal stalwart of the heavy umbrella. The old reliable. Though turns have been taken with the genre, ideas expanded and explored, and sacrilege aptly performed, there is a comfort in black metal that you don’t find with just any subgenre.
Psychic Lemon – Freak Mammal
Back in 2017 Cambridge trio Psychic Lemon released their debut album, Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay to rave reviews and it quickly became regarded as one of the best UK psych albums of the decade. (It’s about to get a re-pressing, check bandcamp, but be quick!). They followed it up last year with a live album,…
Life Of Agony – Sound Of Scars
How do you follow up an album nearly 30 years old whilst maintaining credibility and making it sound like it belongs in 2019? Well the first thing you do if you’re Life Of Agony is have your opening song just repeat one line over and over and then only write another 9, padding out the…
CREATURE Live at The Chameleon Arts Cafe Nottingham 6th November
They won’t be in venues this small for long.
Being As An Ocean And Novelists Live At Club Academy, Manchester, November 4th
Every once in a while, there’s nothing better than some straight up metalcore to bang your head, sing-a-long and mosh with – and Novelists deliver that in spades. The French band have consistently delivered powerful and slightly out of the ordinary mix of metal, groove and tech metal since their formation in 2012, and –…
Thrice and Refused Live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire 30th October (Review and Gallery)
It is profoundly depressing that in 2019 bands of the stature and respectability of Thrice and Refused would get their venue downgraded. Originally slated to appear at the prestigious Brixton Academy, tonight’s show was moved to the Shepherd’s Bush Empire after – presumably – low ticket sales. That two bands, one on a great album…
