There is something about the sound of a cranked Boss HM-2 that warms the cracked edges of my darkened soul. Like a cosy blanket on a cold winters day. If the blanket was a bag of knives. And by winters day I mean the cold embrace of hell. But warming […]
2020 has been a total disaster on many fronts. Stuck in lockdown, no live music. Nightmare. However what 2020 has produced is a heap of quality heavy metal albums. Narrowing it down to ten was pretty tough going. But such is the quality of albums this year they are all […]
Pick up your metal mixing bowl. Combine 3 parts deathcore, 2 parts djent and 1 part 8 bit video game music. Bake it in hell fire for 47 minutes and 2 seconds and you have Black Heart, the sixth studio album from Massachusetts’ Within The Ruins. I often find at […]
Not all music lasts forever. Psychedelia, Electro-Pop, Bitpop, Disco, Nu-metal, Pop Punk. All were huge mainstream success, but didn’t survive for long, mostly not beyond their decade. Thrash metal emerged in the 1980s to huge success, but by the 1990s had all but disappeared. Normally this would mean the end […]
Benediction return with first new album in 12 years Benediction are a death metal band from Birmingham who formed in 1989. Never one to stray too far from what they do best, they are one of the underground legends of the death metal scene. However, I will admit that I […]
I have been listening to heavy metal music for 20 years now. But I had to start somewhere. If you already listen to metal, then you will know the albums that got you there. If not, then take note of some of the albums below, maybe they will get you […]
You will have heard that vocalist Burton C Bell quit Fear Factory (again) this past week. Appears that the confrontation within the band finally got to breaking point and the exit is permanent this time. Burton was the only member there for the whole discography, with Dino Cazares now the […]
Ah as if 2020 couldn’t get anymore bleak or hopeless, here come the masters of nihilistic brutality – Birmingham’s Anaal Nathrakh with their new album Endarkenment. Straight off the bat I will tell you this is one seriously good album. I expected the brutality, Dave Hunt‘s signature shrieking, and a […]
