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Matt Mason (The Mighty One)

Big mouth. Big belly. Big...............ego! Since the age of 14 I have had headphones strapped to my head blasting metal, punk , goth and hippety hop. Never a genre purist I feel that the worlds musicians are merely there to provide the soundtrack to my adventures from my Norf Landan roots to my exile in the Suffolk wilderness (Ipswich).
Having spent the early part of the millennium (This one I ain't that old!) rocking the airwaves on TotalRock I can now be found presenting the MattCave every Friday night 9-Midnight under the stations new name www.bloodstockradio.com . Masochists amongst you can catch me telling bad jokes and reuniting photographers with lost lenses as the compère of the international London Tattoo Convention every summer. Inkredible!

Sons of Alpha Centauri – Pull (Exile On Mainstream)

Following on from 2021’s Push we now have the other half of the gym split. Well maybe this is not for workout freaks but rather those that love catchy as covid alternative metal /post hardcore with pop hooks and melodies…. Continue Reading →

Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne – Islet (By Norse)

Wardruna are a project that exist in my peripheral vision.  On a quick search through my Plex account on my phone I have just one album Runaljod- Yggdrasil and I have a vague recollection of enjoying it but evidently not… Continue Reading →

Leather Lung – Graveside Grin (Magnetic Eye Records)

Substance fuelled Boogie Metal from Boston with this their first full length album being 12 years in the making.  Not that they have been lying in a stupor – they have released several E.P.s and been playing tonnes of shows… Continue Reading →

Midnight – Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade)

I wrote a review a week or so ago which took me back to listening to Speed Kills as a teen. Well here I am again back in the audio time machine thanks to the one-man maniac project that is… Continue Reading →

Hand of Kalliach – Corryvreckan (Prosthetic)

Hand of Kalliach are a husband and wife duo from Edinburgh who mix melodic death metal and Scottish folk music to great effect.  That is the bare basics now onto the wicked mix that Corryvreckan contains in its bubbling pot. The… Continue Reading →

Utgardar –Fire Smoked Upon the Wolf’s Back (ATMF)

If you are reading this, then you will have your own story surrounding a gateway or “Eureka” moment.  The time that something hit your ears and a switch in your brain was tripped like a the infected in 28 Days… Continue Reading →

Petrification – Sever Sacred Light (Svart Records)

Rumbles from the West. Portland Oregon’s Petrification have released their second album “Sever Sacred Light” (which for some reason I have an issue saying out loud), on Svart records. This is the follow up to “Hollow of the Void in 2018… Continue Reading →

Hulder – Verses In Oath (20 Buck Spin)

Back in January 2021 a debut album came out that slapped the sweaty corpse paint off my mush. “Godslastering Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry” impressed me so much it stayed in my head and ears throughout that year to top… Continue Reading →

The Infernal Sea – Hellfenlic (Candlelight Records)

Right let’s start by mounting this high horse. I have been in Suffolk 20 years and despite being anti nationalistic and flag hating have become strangely fond of this city less county. The Infernal Sea appear just as passionate (possibly… Continue Reading →

Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity)

Brisbane is not the first place you think of for filthy gnarly, sludgy Death Metal. I was there in the mid 90’s and I just remember the fake beach on Australia day, extreme humidity and a lot of Hahn Ice… Continue Reading →

La Mer – Tetrahedra (Godz Ov War)

This album was given the very brief description of Black Rock Country when I spied it in the list of ready and willing releases. Gotta say that description intrigued me. I was envisaging something like the Canadian terror country of… Continue Reading →

Interview – Marthe

There were a lot of great albums released in 2023 as can be seen from Ave Noctum writers Top 20’s Here My top of the tree was occupied by two albums Going Off’s “What Makes You Tick?” and Further Into… Continue Reading →

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