Danny Heaten braves the slings and arrows of incompetent sound engineers to bring you his appraisal of an evening of doom and drone courtesy of Bongripper, Conan, Humanfly and local supports Trudger and Ivory Tusks.
Danny Heaton brings you the largely unedited highlights of his recent in-person and email-based conversations with Oxfordshire-based doom/sludge quartet Undersmile.
Danny Heaton goes digging for treasure. Will he unbury a fortune in gold doubloons, or a fossilised cat in a shoebox?
Danny Heaton dons his Sunday best and pulls up a pew in the Chapel of Disease.
Is the new wave of British black metal here to stay or just another flavour of the month? Danny Heaton assesses Fen’s latest contribution, Dustwalker.
Masters of brutality Devourment return with their fifth full length Conceived in Sewage. Danny Heaton holds his nose and takes the plunge.
Having recently been on something of an Old School Death Metal binge of late, OneMetal.com’s Danny Heaton went to worship at the Chapel of Disease when zee Germans invaded Leeds.
Danny Heaton takes a few hits from ‘Mana Yood Sushai’, the fourth full-length by drone-mongers Bong. Will it satisfy his munchies or leave him hungry for more?
These old school death metallers turn up everywhere. In this Round-Up, Danny Heaton ventures a few quick-fire comments about the latest releases form two of OSDM most prolific sons; Rogga Johanssesn and Elektrokutioner.
Danny Heaton peers through the graveyard’s frozen miasma to inspect five of the latest cuts from the crypt in his round-up of New Old-School Death Metal, featuring Bastard Priest, Unconsecrated, Bombs of Hades, Morbus Chron and Cryptborn.
Regurgitate Life is the UK’s latest death metal sole trader. Is it a one-man gang-bang, or just musical masturbation? Danny Heaton finds out.
Bolivian blackened thrashers Bestial Holocaust release their third LP Into the Goat Vulva on records. Will it have Danny Heaton frothing at the gash or dry as a sandpit?
Death metal veterans Master turn it up to 11 on their latest release, ‘The New Elite’. Can these old dogs come up with any new tricks?
Classic thrash masterpiece, ‘Spectrum of Death’ from Sheboygan’s Morbid Saint was picked up by Relapse this year. Danny Heaton went back in time to ’88 to see what the fuss was about.
Undersmile are a rising force on the UK sludge scene, but can their debut LP satisfy expectations? Danny Heaton finds out. Slowly.
After an absence of almost a decade, death metallers Coffin Texts release a new full-length. Danny Heaton discovers whether it was worth the wait.
Danny Heaton dons his Left Hand Path T-shirt to check out the best SweDeath band never to come out of Sweden.
Danny Heaton gets subterranean with South American cult band Sarcofago.
Having had his senses and sensibilities roundly assaulted, Danny Heaton returned to The Well for the second day of Blastonbury Fastevil; an event so depraved it would make GG Alin cry ‘bad taste’!
Prior to their performance at this years’ Damnation Festival, OneMetal.com’s Danny Heaton sat down to chew the fat with Winterfylleth vocalist/guitarist Chris Naughton to discuss why they are “more National Trust than National Front”.
Danny Heaton is a serial ear abuser whose interests include belting out Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse, much to his neighbours’ chagrin, alongside the odd drink and the odd write. He has a cat named Manowar, who has yet to vanquish any of his enemies, but has been successfully trained to charm women on sight. His job is the collection of certain monies on behalf of the government, but he hopes to leave this occupation in favour of something more fun - like being Naomi Campbell’s PA.
My one desire, my only wish is Danny Heatooon!Joined: June 22nd, 2011