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.
As Berlin-based experimental metallers The Ocean release their latest opus, Henry Fogarty abandons caution and dives in head-first.
Jack Traveller dons his mourning black and attends the funeral of Coventry’s doom pioneers Cathedral, with their farewell album ‘The Last Spire’.
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.
It’s fair to say that Rob McAuslan is a fan of this band. That might even be understatement in its purest form. The new Between The Buried And Me album gets Rob a bit excited, within.
‘Last Rites’ is doom pioneers Pentagram’s first album to feature guitarist Victor Griffin since 1994, so Chris Ward tunes in to see if the magic is still there.
Knoxville death metallers release their self-titled album. Ross Jenner listens in and discovers what Whitechapel are really all about.
OneMetal.com’s Phil Whitehouse talks to vocalist Hornper of Swedish occult heavy metallers In Solitude about the band’s desire to shake their audiences out of their existence, the importance of playing and travelling with bands you respect, and the experience of creating their first promo video.
Chris Ward checks out the latest slab of groove-laden death metal from Six Feet Under, and sees that ‘Undead’ shows signs of life.
Vomit-inducing song titles, necks bigger than your torso and good times! Must be time for the new album from death metal institution Cannibal Corpse. Danny Heaton undergoes ‘Torture’.
Death metallers Goatwhore have released their fifth LP, do they still have what it takes?
Poor old Job For A Cowboy. They get a lot of stick, don’t they? Find out what Ryan Neal thought of their new album, Demonocracy. He promises not to mention Myspace once…
Prog rock duo OSI give you their fourth album. Will they be able to bring the thunder? (We make no apologies for that terrible joke)
Phil Whitehouse donned his horned helm and packed his drinking horn for an evening of Viking-themed melodic death metal courtesy of Amon Amarth, with support from fellow Swedes, occult trad metallers In Solitude and heavy/doom metal power trio Grand Magus.
Not the first in a series of retro reviews, as you might expect, but the result of Rob McAuslan finally getting his finger out. Primordial’s latest opus gets its review at long last.
Onemetal’s Jack Traveller descends from his elitist ivory tower to wade in the mire of metalcore. Is he as happy as a pig in mud in this unfamiliar territory, or will he eat the apple but fuck the ‘core?
Phil Whitehouse checks out the seventh album by New York-based progressive rock quartet 3, and finds himself asking – where have you been all my life?
San Francisco-based prog/trad/doom/rock alchemists Hammers Of Misfortune return with a new line-up and their fifth album, ’17th Street’ – Phil Whitehouse takes in the sights and sounds.
Back in 2007 Malefice were heralded by a certain magazine as the British answer to ‘American metal’. Four years and two albums later OneMetal checks in to see how they’re holding up under the title.
Nicholas Cleeve examines the latest offering from Swedish folk/power metallers Falconer.
Massachusetts bruisers return with their much celebrated new album Darkness in the Light. Ryan Neal finds out whether it’s as good as our Twitter feed would have us believe.