Mike flouts his restraining order and continues to stalk Kvelertak, this time catching them as they play their biggest UK headline show to date, at Camden’s Electric Ballroom.
Mike Perry plumbs the depths of the OneMetal album review queue to cast a critical ear over a handful of grindcore and powerviolence records that passed us by the first time round.
Sacré bleu! Mon Dieu! Other clichéd French exclamations! One Metal’s Mike Perry ventured to Camden to catch French metal titans Gojira tear Koko apart…
The Faceless return after four years with their latest offering, Autotheism. Mike Perry discusses whether it’s god-like or god-damn awful…
Like crunching riffs? Theremins? David Icke? Then Turbowolf are the band for you. OneMetal’s Mike Perry headed to the Garage in Highbury to watch the ‘Wolf in action…
Baroness have returned with – gulp – a double album. OneMetal’s Mike Perry investigates whether or not ‘Yellow and Green’ can live up to its equally colourful forbears…
Having taken his own sweet time (and the best part of two months) to fully digest the album, Mike finally gets round to sharing his thoughts on Mastodon’s latest offering, The Hunter.
In the first of a three-part series, Mike, after much deliberation, has picked his Top 5 bands to watch at this year’s Bloodstock Open Air Festival.
As if our extensive coverage of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Download Festival wasn’t enough, Mike and Zakk also put their heads together to bring you their overall impressions of everything but the music…
Amazingly, both Mike Perry and Zakk Appleyard survived their weekend of booze-fuelled rocking at 2011′s Download Festival. Check out the final instalment of their review of the bands that graced Donington’s hallowed stages.
Mike braces himself (and his ears) for the onslaught that is US death metallers Hate Eternal’s new album, Phoenix Amongst the Ashes.
Mike ventured to Manchester’s Grand Central to check out the second semi-final of Bloodstock’s Metal to the Masses regional heats. And to consume several pints of Guinness…
A “hybrid warp metal” record that fuses sci-fi with thrash, punk and sludge? Don’t mind if I do, says Mike Perry…
Mike strokes his chin and bangs his head to extreme prog metallers Ana Kefr’s latest mind-bending offering, The Burial Tree (II).
Mike gets all rather confused over Turkish metallers Raven Woods’ latest offering, ‘Enfeebling the Throne’.
Mike plumbs the depths of despair so you don’t have to, in order to bring you his thoughts on gloomy black metallers Srodek’s latest album, ‘Förfall’.
Mike dabbles in the black arts to give his thoughts on anonymous doom-cum-pop outfit Ghost’s debut, ‘Opus Eponymous’.
Mike Perry checks out Singaporean horror thrashers Psycho’s latest offering, ‘Pain Addict Pigs’.
Black metal from the Arctic wastelands of… California? Mike checks out Valdur’s latest offering, ‘Raven God Amongst Us’.
Mike casts his discerning eyes and ears over Architects’ much-discussed latest album, ‘The Here and Now’.
A glutton for new music with a penchant for both extreme metal and prog rock, Leicester-bred, London-dwelling Mike has been plying his trade as a fledgling music journo for the last couple of years, writing for various local and national webzines and offering forth his opinion (solicited or otherwise) on all that is good (or bad) in both metal and the wider music scene…
Joined: December 2nd, 2010