music REVIEW: Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood
Kit Rathenar gets on the trail of the Reaper to check out the new Children of Bodom album. Will she make it out alive?
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music REVIEW: De Profundis – The Emptiness Within
Nicholas Cleeve takes a long, hard look at The Emptiness Within. Also, he finds time to review London-based experimental metal band De Profundis’ album of the same name.
music REVIEW: Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse – Wisdom of Crowds
The frontmen of Pineapple Thief and Katatonia join force to relate the ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ – Chris McGarel adds his voice to the throng.
music REVIEW: HIM – Tears on Tape
Finnish ‘love metal’ quintet HIM come through troubled times to serve up some dark magic. Henry Fogarty fires up ‘Tears On Tape’ and gets in touch with his sensitive side.
music REVIEW: Heimdall – Aeneid
Nicholas Cleeve tries valiantly to prove that his Latin GCSE has a real-world application by reviewing the Italian power metallers’ interpretation of the Roman epic.
music REVIEW: Avantasia – The Mystery of Time
Kit Rathenar straps herself in for a round of bombastic, symphonic power metal/rock opera courtesy of Avantasia’s ‘The Mystery of Time’
music REVIEW: A Pale Horse Named Death – Lay My Soul To Waste
Lay My Soul to Waste is the second album from Brooklyn doom merchants A Pale Horse Named Death. Chris Ward gives it a listen and tries to think positive thoughts…
music REVIEW: Voodoo Highway – Showdown
Chris Ward checks out Showdown, the second album from Italian hard rockers Voodoo Highway.
music REVIEW: The Ocean – Pelagial
As Berlin-based experimental metallers The Ocean release their latest opus, Henry Fogarty abandons caution and dives in head-first.
music NEWS: Anthrax – Anthems
Chris Ward stops listening to doom long enough to fit in thrash metal loons Anthrax’s latest covers EP Anthems.
music REVIEW: Lilla Veneda – Diagnosis
Ryan Neal’s hungry for some death metal, so he’s taken a bite out of Lilla Veneda’s Diagnosis. Find his culinary review within.
music LIVE REVIEW: Sonic Obliteration (feat. Cattle Decapitation & Cryptopsy) @ The Underworld, London – 04/05/2013
9 bands at the underworld, including famed brutalists Decrepit Birth, Cattle Decapitation, a band OneMetal’s death metal specialists can’t get enough of and headlined by legends Cryptopsy? Well, it would be rude not to. Jack Traveller boldly goes forth.
music LIVE REVIEW: The Algorithm, Visions, Shattered Skies & Subversion @ Surya, London – 05/04/2013
Nicholas Cleeve reports back on a fun-filled evening of confusing time signatures and guitars with too many strings, headlined by the truly inimitable electronics focused The Algorithm.
music REVIEW: Sacred Mother Tongue – Out of the Darkness
Henry Fogarty gets all frustrated as the ‘next big thing’ keeps the waiting game going.
music REVIEW: Pendact – Days of War
Nicholas Cleeve checks out ‘Days of War’, the debut full-length by Gallic melodic death metallers Pendact.
music REVIEW: Falkenbach – Tiurida
Michael Atkin checks out Falkenbach’s latest offering of folk metal, ‘Tiurida’.
music REVIEW: Cathedral – The Last Spire
Jack Traveller dons his mourning black and attends the funeral of Coventry’s doom pioneers Cathedral, with their farewell album ‘The Last Spire’.
music REVIEW: Shouting Signals – Stand Your Ground
Henry Fogarty tries a debut EP from an emerging Essex quintet, and tries not to feel old and jaded.
music LIVE REVIEW: Bongripper, Conan & Humanfly @ DQ, Sheffield – 23/04/13
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.
music REVIEW: Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones Part 2
Ryan Neal concludes his review of Stone Sour’s new two part album. Read the verdict on House of Gold and Bones Part 2.