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Soilwork – Övergivenheten (Nuclear Blast)

It’s hard to see a new Soilwork album without feeling that you know what to expect. Not that I’m complaining, as I have all 11 albums they’ve released plus other bits. I expect melody, I expect aggression, I expect a… Continue Reading →

Nicolas Cage Fighter – The Bones that Grew from Pain (Metal Blade)

Anything could happen here. Metallic hardcore, late 90s metal and death metal influences form the stylistic backbone of this album. Reading the blurb, it seems to claim to be everything, and above all bigger and better than the Australians’ 2021… Continue Reading →

Scorn -Winds Of Torment (Great Dane)

Scorn are a band from France who formed rather recently (2021) and seem to be wasting no time in getting into gear and putting their work out there. Primarily described as a Thrash metal act with some death metal influences,… Continue Reading →

Ancient Settlers – Our Last Eclipse (Crusader Records)

As things have changed over the last two years with everyone working remotely and collaborating with colleagues which are remotely located, why shouldn’t music do the same? While this sextet comprises of 5 Venezuelan members and a Finn, they are… Continue Reading →

Bloodywood – Rakshak (S/R)

Fairy tale may be going a little too far but the journey of Bloodywood would make an awesome film. There is already a documentary “Raj Against the Machine” which you can watch on YouTube which depicts the bands story up to their… Continue Reading →

The Risen Dread – Night Hag (S/R)

To follow their ep “Delusions (2019), Irish groove metalcore band The Risen Dread are now releasing this, their debut. I haven’t come across the band myself but it is clear that they have been putting themselves about with live shows,… Continue Reading →

Black Hill Cove – Broken (Raging Planet)

The name suggests a smugglers hideaway and indeed has literary ties to Treasure Island and Devon but it is actually Portugal we are heading to and a debut album that we are told should appeal to fans of bands such… Continue Reading →

Whitechapel – Kin (Metal Blade)

Deathcore has reared its head again and boy, is this one vicious and aggressive head to raise. Tennessee’s own Whitechapel are ready to batter and bludgeon with this, their eighth full length effort, ‘Kin’. Whitechapel are somewhat uber giants in… Continue Reading →

Between the Buried and Me – Colors II (Sumerian Records)

Music, by its very nature, is the dictionary definition of ostentatious. Said band/musician writes a song and thinks ‘I have to share this, so others may gasp at my genius’. The very nature of an ‘artist’ lends itself to an… Continue Reading →

Urne – Serpent & Spirit (Candlelight)

Urne’s first EP, 2018’s “The Mountain Of Gold” offered a tantalising look at what a couple of ex-Hang The Bastard guys could offer as they went in search of a more progressive sound. Joe Nally (bass, vocals) and Angus Neyra… Continue Reading →

Interloper – Search Party (Nuclear Blast)

I don’t know this band, but the way they’re being written about I feel that I should. How does a band return for its debut album? This lot from California apparently have. I can’t say I’d heard of the bands… Continue Reading →

The Ember, The Ash – Fixation (Prosthetic Records)

From Ottawa, Ontario, come The Ember, The Ash, a one-person project I had not encountered so far. The individual who does everything here, and everything includes recording and mixing, goes by the name of 鬼, which in Japanese means “demon”… Continue Reading →

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