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Baptists – Bushcraft – Album Review

Monday, February 11, 2013

D-beat hardcore is awesome. But D-beat hardcore with some metal and sludge is even better! That’s how I would describe Baptists’ new album Bushcraft – an offering full of attitude, energy and some twists and turns that will keep you racing down the highway at break neck speed. For some reason, I equate certain types [...]

Heartless – UK / Irish Tour Update

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Does this look your idea of fun?…… If the answer is ‘yes’ then good news ahoy as Heartless are making a trip to UK shores to bother eardrums and cause chaos throughout the land. Our man, P. Henry, described the band thus.. “Heartless …..hitting you like a ten ton steel girder swung from a 50 [...]

Oiltanker – The Shadow of Greed LP/Crusades 7” – Review

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Let’s face it, for every time you want to hear something ‘varied’ and ‘complex’, there are moments when you just want something that just picks up a bat and smashes something. Straightforward and devastatingly effective. Well there’s a band from Connecticut called Oiltanker that’s going to put that bat in your hand in the form [...]

Enabler – All Hail The Void – Album Review

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

It’s been a while since a band just kicked me in the teeth the first song in and went on to beat me into submission for the next 30+ minutes. Like a gateway drug taking you to a dark place, Enabler’s new album All Hail The Void moves you into a musical abyss – where [...]

Burning Love – Rotten Thing To Say – Album Review

Thursday, July 12, 2012

So I’m in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia last year to see Converge. As I walk in, there is a sound coming through the speakers that is not quite hardcore and not quite metal, but definitely with some blues mixed in. The band on stage is 10 feet away and absolutely [...]

Black Breath – Sentenced To Life – Album Review

Friday, March 23, 2012

“My flesh, my blood, you’re dead – Feast of the Damned!” This pretty much sums up the awesomeness that is Sentenced For Life – Black Breath’s latest album which, in my book, is THE metal event of the year. It is said that everything basically influences, well, everything. It is the ultra rare band that [...]

Black Breath Announce Live Dates April 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

With the brand new album imminent, Black Breath have announced some eagerly anticipated live dates. If that was not exciting enough they will be touring with Victims and Tormented for most of the shows, result being a killer line up. Here are the dates so far, with more to be announced: 29-03-2012 Baroeg Rotterdam Netherlands [...]