music REVIEW: Centurian – Contra Rationem
Dutch death metal quartet Centurian return after 12 years with their third full-length album, ‘Contra Rationem’. Phil Whitehouse joins the phalanx.
Dutch death metal quartet Centurian return after 12 years with their third full-length album, ‘Contra Rationem’. Phil Whitehouse joins the phalanx.
Phil Whitehouse casts judgment on a selection of releases from the brainier, widdlier end of the death metal spectrum, courtesy of Over Your Threshold, Sentence, Okular, Chosen and Supuration.
Phil Whitehouse checks out Plymouth, UK-based melodic blackened death metal duo Aetherium Mors’ debut album, ‘Drenched in Victorious Blood’.
Danny Heaton and Phil Whitehouse take you through some of the bands they’re looking forward to seeing at ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 at the Templeworks in Leeds, a three-day festival to be held from the 26th to the 28th of April for the wallet-pleasing sum of £35.
San Franciscan sludge/post-metallers Kowloon Walled City’s latest album Container Ships hovers over the horizon – Phil Whitehouse waves from the docks.
Chicago trio Arbogast blend metallic hardcore, sludge, thrash and prog on their debut full-length ‘I’ – Phil Whitehouse takes a listen.
While seemingly the rest of the world sat anxiously awaiting the Mayan-predicted Apocalypse, Phil Whitehouse was compiling the OneMetal Music Team’s picks for Top 5 releases of 2012. Fingers crossed, the world will survive long enough for you to check them out.
In this Grindcore-flavoured edition of Round-Up, Phil Whitehouse checks out releases by Bolesno Grinje, Temblad, Liberteer, Subliminal Chaos and Human Cull.
Phil Whitehouse checks out a diverse evening encompassing grindcore, hardcore, black metal, screamo and post-metal, all headed up by an explosive performance by metallic hardcore legends Converge.
Phil Whitehouse checks out ‘Disclosure’, the eagerly-anticipated debut album by London-based technical/progressive metal quartet The HAARP Machine.
OneMetal’s Phil Whitehouse checks out ‘Perpetuation’, the second album by Canadian technical death metal quintet Derelict.
Phil Whitehouse checks out the debut full-length by French alternative/progressive metal trio Lizzard, ‘Out Of Reach’.
Members of October Tide, Katatonia and A Swarm of the Sun have banded together in the form of metallic post-rockers Aoria – Phil Whitehouse takes a listen to their debut album, ‘The Constant’.
Phil Whitehouse stocks up on anti-depressants before tackling ‘A Frail Becoming’ – the fifth full-length album from North Carolina / California-based melodic death/doom metallers Daylight Dies.
Sludge metal, bluesy swagger and progressive intricacy come together on ‘Iron Chest’, the sophomore release by German trio Earthship. Phil Whitehouse renders his verdict on the effectiveness of the blend.
French grunge-inflected progressive metallers Klone unveil their sixth album, ‘The Dreamer’s Hideaway’ – Phil Whitehouse peeks out from beneath the sheets to offer his verdict.
Festival season is drawing to a close, yet there’s still Damnation Festival 2012 at the Leeds University Union on 03/11/2012 to look forward to. Phil Whitehouse, Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller take you through their most-anticipated bands from the line-up.
OneMetal scribes Phil Whitehouse, Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller humbly present, at long last, the thrilling conclusion to their three-part review of the metal shenanigans which occured at the Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2012.
Hotly-tipped London djentsters Monuments finally unleash their debut full-length ‘Gnosis’ – can the results live up to three years of fevered expectations? Phil Whitehouse finds out.
OneMetal’s Danny Heaton, Jack Traveller and Phil Whitehouse take you through the second part of their in-depth review of 2012′s Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival.